Stephanie Wynne and Wirral Women Group 2021
Since 2017 photographer Stephanie Wynne has been collaborating on various art projects with a group of Wirral Women. In 2020 Stephanie curated images that the group had garnered remotely, from their extended friends and families around the globe. Producing a jigsaw reflecting the activities of ‘passing the time’ that many of us undertook in lockdown. The jigsaw was created to be handled by the public and is consequently printed on to easily cleaned perspex that is both beautiful and hygienic
With the prospect of a second lockdown the Wirral Women group then turned to contemplate their homes, families and immediate surroundings. They took the concept of ‘Haven’ a place of safety, those places that sustain you and a place to return to. The photographs mostly taken on smart phones are presented in drawers from a chest; these are precious and private articles being kept safe. For the last two years so much of our interaction has been through screens, the pictures have been created as 3D montages to move past looking at the world in two dimensions.