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Hannah Starkey   British, born 1968
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Hannah Starkey, born 1968
C-type print
Hannah Starkey has said that she likes to explore "everyday experiences and observations of inner city life from a female perspective". She does so by using generally female actors to create large-scale tableaux, in which the protagonists act out carefully staged scenarios. Her images often portray moments of quiet drama, touching upon areas of experience which are familiar but which remain unspoken or below the surface. Starkey’s narratives suggest that we have caught her characters unawares for a moment, leaving us to imagine the build-up to the incident portrayed.
E.491-1998 © Hannah Starkey, courtesy Maureen Paley/Interim Art