« Feminism never killed anyone.
Misogyny kills every day. »

Benoîte Groult

Writer, Feminist, Politician, Journalist and Novelist (1920 – 2016)

background

I am a child of the swinging seventies, born and raised in the south of England. As a child, I wanted to be a painter, like my mother. However, after failing the entrance exam for the art school foundation course at the tender age of seventeen, I persuaded myself that I was not an artist and I studied French, Italian and Art history at the University of Kent, in Canterbury.

I left my family and the UK  on the day of my graduation to live in Paris with my future husband. I worked in English language training, translation and freelance journalism, while raising our two daughters.
I started a photography business in 2017 and wrote essays for the feminist magazine Foto Femme United, throughout 2021.

During the pause imposed by the Covid pandemic, when I spent most of the lockdowns paining in our tiny loft space, I decided to return to my teenage ambition and applied to art school. I graduated in June 2024 from the Ecole des Beaux Arts, in Versailles, France.

EXHIBITIONS

October 2024 – La Nuit de la Création – Exhibition of a photographic commission “Versailles Intemporel”, at the Open University of Versailles.

January 2024 - Affinités IV - Group exhibition at the gallery of the École des Beaux-Arts, Versailles.

May / June 2023 – La Fête de l’Estampe 11e - Group exhibition in engraving at the gallery of the École des Beaux-Arts, Versailles.

February 2023 - Affinités III - Multidisciplinary group exhibition at the gallery of the École des Beaux-Arts, Versailles.

2021 - 2022 - Barcelona Foto Biennale, Fine Art & Documentary Photography with a series of photographs of the Chateau de Versailles.

EDUCATION.

2022 - 2024
BFA at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Versailles, France.

2017
Registered business owner as Auteur/Artiste Photography.

2010 – 2014
Photography workshops in Paris with American photographer, Meredith Mullins.

1986
B.A.Hons French/Italian/Art History - The University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

awards.

2020
First prize in the Architecture category of the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards for Woman Photographers.