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30/3/2004

Kirsty Mackay

Deluxe Gallery, London

i-capture

From Samuel Pepys, through Alan Clark to Bridget Jones, Britain has a fine tradition of producing great diarists. Now, for the first time, the mobile phone is to challenge the might of the pen.

On 31 March at the Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton, one of Britain's best multimedia artists will be exhibiting i-capture, a diary exhibition in one of the latest and most talked about digital formats.

Kirsty Mackay demonstrated foresight when she contacted Vodafone at the end of 2002 wanting to adopt mobile phone camera technology to document the daily twists and turns by taking a photograph every day of 2003. These 365 images are all reprinted from the exact shots she captured with the Vodafone live! Sharp GX10 and the GX20 handset.

Mackay's mission was to reveal an intensely personal visual record of her year and the world around her in the way all good diaries should do. The diary starts on the 1 January 2003 and documents the whole year of the one time assistant of such luminary photographers as Herb Ritts and Nick Knight, making her a forerunner in the field of art and technology convergence.

Mackay extols the virtues of the mobile, once only used as a vocal communications tool, but now capable of being the conduit for a variety of communication. Just as weblogs have become a modern form of diary writing, so Mackay believes the opportunity and access given by the growing number of camera phones in the market may encourage more artists and the artistically inclined to record the world around them.

'It has been liberating to use the digital format. The phone enables you to experiment more as it produces cheap, fun, instant and throwaway images that are impressive for such a compact piece of equipment. It‘s the characteristics of this digital camera phone that have helped to create the overall look of the exhibition.'

These beautiful, colourful and often provocative images mark each day in her life in which Mackay says, 'I had no idea how it would turn out or what would become. I thought a lot about what would happen to me in the coming year and what my fate would be.' i-capture is the result.

Kirsty Mackay received the Hunters Armley photographic prize in 1989 and The Association of Photographer's Best Still Life Portfolio in 1998. She has also undertaken commissions for the Independent On Sunday, The Sunday Express, M magazine (The Mirror), Tank and Decode.

Private View 31st March 6.30pm

For further information please contact:
Rachel Moule or Phillip Dorward at Borkowski
Tel : +44 (0) 207 4043000
Mobile : 07900 244539

DELUXE GALLERY
MON - FRI 11-6, SAT 12-5
2-4 Hoxton Square, London, N1 6NU
Tel: 020 7729 8503, Mobile: 07802 748484

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