Kerry Curl is a UK based award winning photographic artist working with photography, video art and installation. Intuitive and open to experimentation, Kerry's work fuses genres as she works at the intersection of portraiture, fashion and documentary, exploring the lines between the boundaries.
Her practice frequently draws on the influence of the past in today’s world to question the idea of nostalgia, sustainability, consumerism. Creating visual responses to history and its prominence in the now, vintage and secondhand clothing have long been a feature which is used and reused within her work.
Her achievements include being awarded winning image status in the British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain in 2017 and 2019, a finalist in the Graduate Fashion Week Fashion Photography Award 2017 and finalist in the AOP Student Photographer award 2017. Kerry was granted funding to create a new multimedia installation project for the Norwich Fringe Festival 2021, completed a research and development artist residency at the Norwich Shoe Factory and was recently invited to show work from her 'This is Not Nostalgia?' project at the Norwich Science Festival Hello Future Fashion exhibition.
A list of selected exhibitions, awards, publications and interviews can be seen below.
Kerry is available for commissions and assignments. For enquiries, print requests or anything else please contact hello@kerrycurl.com
Instagram: @kerrycurl
+44 (0) 7958471952
Selected Exhibitions
2022
- Yearbook 2022, Shutterhub, digital exhibition
- YOUR BODY BELONGS TO YOU, Shutter hub exhibition, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
- Creative Lives CIC New Beginnings digital exhibition
2021
- Shutterhub OPEN, London
- The Postcard Project, Artists Responding to, London
- The Disco: Room 2021. Solo digital exhibition and multimedia installation work commissioned by Norwich Fringe Festival 2021
- HELLO FUTURE FASHION, Norwich Science Festival
2020
- ENCORE: Time to Think, Shutter Hub exhibition, St Gilles Croix de Vie, France
- Keep Making and Creating. Norwich University of the Arts digital exhibition
- Everyday Delight (Stay at Home Edition) Shutterhub digital exhibition
- Postcards from Great Britain, Shutterhub, Haarlem, The Netherlands.
2019
- British Journal of Photography Portrait of Britain, U.K wide exhibition
- National exhibition/published in the Portrait of Britain book (Hoxton Mini Press)
- Time to Think, Shutter Hub exhibition at Festival Pil'ours, France
- Photographers United, Printspace, London
2018
- Photograd OPEN, The Cass, London
- Drag in The Gallery. Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich
- Because We Can! Shutter Hub, Festival Pil'ours, Saint Gilles Croix de Vie, France
- Graduate Fashion Week for Norwich University of the Arts, Truman Brewery, London
2017
- NEW, NUA, NEWEST (Best of Norwich University of The Arts Graduates from the last 5 years) Norwich
- AOP Awards, Truman Brewery, London
- Photography on a Postcard, Printspace, London
- #91Selects Truman Brewery, London
- British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Britain, U.K wide exhibition
- AOP Awards, Mother London, London
- Free Range Show- Truman Brewery, London
- Norwich University of the Arts Degree Show, Norwich
2015
- RAW, Norwich University of the Arts, Norwich
Residencies
2022 - Jubilique, 13A St.Augustine's Street, Norwich - Artist in residence
2021 - The Shoe Factory, Norwich. 'A Body of Movement' - Artist residency with Emily Cannell
Awards
2022 - Shutterhub 2022 yearbook
2021 - AND Annual, Then There Was Us - selected
2021 - Norwich Fringe Festival - Arts funding to support a new festival commission
2020 - AND Annual, Then There Was Us- selected
2019 - British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain winning image
2017 - British Journal of Photography’s Portrait of Britain winning image
2017 - AOP Student Awards 2017 - Finalist
2017 - Graduate Fashion Week Fashion Photography Award - Finalist
2017 - Norwich University of the Arts Vice Chancellors Commendation
Selected Other/Editorials/Features/Interviews
2022
- Norfolk Network & Norwich BID 'Creating with Purpose' Talk
- Creative Lives CIC Artist Talk
- Creative Lives CIC photography workshop BBC Radio Norfolk
2021
- Then There Was us AND 2022
- What does the pandemic mean for fashion? - words for Sans Pareil
- ANNUAL Work Show Grow Group publication
- Five minutes with - Morwenna Farrel - words for Sans Pareil
- Podcast guest Norwich Fringe Focus
- 5 Minutes with A series by Ross Pollard
2020
- Then There Was us AND 2020 ANNUAL
- Artists Responding To book
- Podcast guest Jo's Art History
- PhotoGrad - Guest blog post 'Life in Lockdown' series
- Interview - Queer and The City podcast - "Creativity in confinement"
- Panel talk speaker 'Can fashion be sustainable?' - a Kate Cooper x We Wear The Trousers event
- Fashion United - Interview
2019
- Artist talk - Access to Creative College Norwich
- Selected images on PhotoVogue by Vogue Italia
- Panel talk speaker. 'Meet Your Maker' Sustainability and Ethics. Sans Pareil X Make Town
- ShutterHub - Feature
- Resident Magazine - Interview
- BBC Radio Norfolk - Interview
- British Journal of Photography, Portrait of Britain VOL 2, (Hoxton Mini Press)
- Photography Competition Judge and artist talk - Norwich University of the Arts 'Beyond The Frame' competition in association with Canon
- Fast Forward: Women in Photo Instagram Takeover
2018
- Storehouse Magazine - published
- The Glass Pineapple - published
- Photograd Instagram Takeover
- Norwich University of the Arts to photograph the BA (Hons) Fashion official degree show publication
- Disorder Magazine - published
- Guest Lecturer - Norwich University of the Arts
2017
- Guest Lecturer -Norwich University of the Arts.
- Commissioned artist for the Norwich University of the Arts Official Christmas card
- British Journal of Photography's Portrait of Britain Success Stories
- The Glass Pineapple - published
- Storehouse Magazine - Interview
- Resident Magazine - Interview
- Photograd Instagram Takeover
- Norwich Fashion Week - published
2016
- Deux Hommes Magazine - published
- Dash Magazine - published
- The Glass Pineapple - published
- The Rise, The Fall and The Rise by Brix Smith Start (Faber & Faber) -published
- Norwich Fashion Week - published
Appointments
2014-2017 Norwich Fashion Week CIC- Board Member, event producer and photographer
2016-2017 Norwich Fashion CIC - Director, event producer and photographer
Education
- 2014-2017 BA (Hons) Photography - First Class
- 2013-2014 City & Guilds Level 3 Digital Photography - Full Distinctions
- 2012-2013 City & Guilds Level 2 Digital Photography - Full Distinctions
- 2003-2004 City & Guilds Level 2 Black and White Photography - Full Distinctions