Belinda Whiting

Living and working in Cornwall Belinda chooses to work in the medium of photography because of its versatility and power to communicate. She is interested however in moving beyond the straight, chemically produced image and uses a more handcrafted, tactile and personally involving method of production. Belinda employs various forms of photographic print making, such as bromoil (where the image is bleached away and brought back with oil-based inks and a brush), silver gelatin emulsion or polaroid manipulations and image transfers. These images retain a dreamy quality that is both beautiful and painterly.
Personal issues have always been an integral part of Belinda’s work and are the starting points of lines of enquiry that seek to explore internal states and the visible world simultaneously. Recent work has been concerned with movement and dance, gesture and emotion within the wider themes of memory and loss and has used video and the sequencing of photographic stills taken from video.