Hannah Starkey (born 1971) is a British photographer who specializes in staged settings of women in city environments, based in London. In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. ''Hannah Starkey: In Real Life'' is showing at

The Hepworth Wakefield The Hepworth Wakefield is an art museum in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, which opened on 21 May 2011. The gallery is situated on the south side of the River Calder and takes its name from artist and sculptor Barbara Hepworth who was born a ...

until 30 April 2023.

Biography

Born in

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, Starkey studied photography and film at

Napier University , mottoeng = Without knowledge, everything is in vain , established = 1992 – granted University status 1964 – Napier Technical College , type = Public , academic_staff = 802 , administrative_staff = 562 , chancellor = Will Whitehorn , ...

, Edinburgh (1992–1995) and photography at the

Royal College of Art The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It o ...

, London (1996–1997). She now lives and works in London. Her more recent images have an almost theatrical character, often depicting women in staged settings, for example with a Coca-Cola in a pub or inside a public lavatory. She describes her work as "explorations of everyday experiences and observations of inner city life from a female perspective."

Publications

*''Hannah Starkey: Moments in the Modern World - Photographic Works, 1997-2000,'' Dublin:

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, 2000. . Exhibition catalogue. With a foreword by Sarah Glennie and a text by

Val Williams Val Williams is a British curator and author who has become an authority on British photography. She is the Professor of the History and Culture of Photography at the London College of Communication, part of the University of the Arts London, and ...

. *''Hannah Starkey: Photographs 1997–2007.'' Göttingen:

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, 2007. Isabella Kullmann; Liz Jobey. . *''Hannah Starkey: Twenty Nine Pictures.'' Coventry:

Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events embracing all types of theatre and performance, contemporary and cl ...

, 2011. Hannah Starkey; Diarmuid Costello; Sarah Shalgosky; Margaret Iverson. . *''Photographs 1997–2017.'' London: Mack, 2018. . With a biographical essay by

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and a transcript of conversation between Starkey and Liz Jobey.

Solo exhibitions

*1999: ''Hannah Starkey,''

Cornerhouse Cornerhouse was a centre for cinema and the contemporary visual arts, located next to Oxford Road Station on Oxford Street, Manchester, England, which was active from 1985–2015. It had three floors of art galleries, three cinemas, a booksho ...

, Manchester *2000: ''Hannah Starkey: Photographs,''

, Dublin *2010: Forum für Fotografie, Cologne *2011: ''Hannah Starkey: Twenty-Nine Pictures,'' Mead Gallery,

Warwick Arts Centre Warwick Arts Centre is a multi-venue arts complex at the University of Warwick in Coventry, England. It attracts around 300,000 visitors a year to over 3,000 individual events embracing all types of theatre and performance, contemporary and cl ...

, Coventry. Curated by Diarmuid Costello. *2011: ''Visual Puzzles: Hannah Starkey,''

Ormeau Baths Gallery The Ormeau Baths in Belfast, Northern Ireland, now a home to tech and digital businesses in a modern contemporary building, was one of Ireland's premier contemporary art spaces. It curated exhibitions by prominent international artists includin ...

, Belfast *2022/3: ''Hannah Starkey: In Real Life,''

, Wakefield, UK, 21 October 2022 – 30 April 2023

Awards

*2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol

Collections

Starkey's work is held in the following public collections: *

Tate Modern Tate Modern is an art gallery located in London. It houses the United Kingdom's national collection of international modern and contemporary art, and forms part of the Tate group together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It ...

, London: 4 prints (as of August 2020) *

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

, London: 3 prints (as of August 2020) *

, Dublin: 1 print (as of August 2020) *

Castello di Rivoli The Castle of Rivoli is a former Residence of the Royal House of Savoy in Rivoli ( Metropolitan City of Turin, Italy). It is currently home to the Castello di Rivoli – Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, the museum of contemporary art of Turin. In 19 ...

, Turin: 3 prints (as of August 2020)

References

External links

Examples of Starkey's work from Saatchi Gallery"The photography of Hannah Starkey – in pictures"
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