Adele Mary Reed
From a very young age ADELE MARY REED has been experimenting with diaristic practices and methods of documentation to reflect upon the human experience within social contexts and place. She graduated with a First Class Ba [Hons] in Photography at Coventry University in 2016 with a ten minute film piece “Notebook on Cats and Pigeons” which explored urban imagery, sense of belonging, and personal identity within the city. Her most common focus however is on using 35mm film with which she prolifically documents her explorations of the places she finds herself in, namely the city of Coventry where she lives as a single co-parent to her daughter who was born in 2017. Adele’s work seeks to playfully highlight, maintain, introduce or restore the inconspicuous beauty within moments and objects occurring during day-to-day life. She is interested in autobiographical and landscape archiving, taking unplanned walks, plant-life, elusive moods of stillness and balance and new topographical themes.
She has exhibited both still and moving photographic image with Coventry Biennial of Contemporary Art, Hundred Heroines, Shutter Hub, Spilt Milk Gallery, Class Room Gallery, Clarke Gallery and The Herbert Museum & Art Gallery through shows in Coventry, London, Edinburgh, Birmingham, Blackpool, Haarlem and Volgograd. She has also undertaken commissions for Coventry City Council, Coventry Artspace Partnerships, Warwick Arts Centre, Goldsmiths University, and ACE funded sirenscrossing.
Since becoming a mother Adele has been thinking about the relationship between motherhood and making art and how the two can coincide successfully, and since May 2019 has facilitated a Mothers Who Make hub in Coventry, which during 2021 is being supported by Coventry Biennial. Adele curates an Instagram feed for images made with 35mm film which depict notions of motherhood called 35mmotherhood and is seeking submissions in an ongoing basis.
