Moira Lovell

Moira Lovell is an OCA Photography Tutor and a Senior Lecturer in Photography at Southampton Solent University. She studied photography at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in the 1990s, during a transitional period from an advertising and editorial programme to a more arts based and conceptual approach. After working as a press photographer and a medical photographer, she studied for her Masters at the London College of Communication. Upon graduation Moira won the prestigious Jerwood photography prize with a series titled The After School Club, the same works went on to win the Magenta Foundation Emerging Photographers Prize. Moira was awarded a Pavilion Commission in 2007 and produced a body of work entited Stand Your Ground that went on show at The National Media Museum. In 2008 she was awarded an NMM Photography Bursary to assist in the development of a new-long term body of work. In 2009 an initial series of portraits made with the support of the NMM were awarded a Rhubarb-Rhubarb Hungry Bursary, these works were additionally selected for the ArtSway Open 2009. Her research interests orbit around notions of self and communal experience, and the ways in which memory, place and narrative intersect with selfhood. Moira's current practice hones in on the idea of the photograph being 'that-has-been', the subjects of this research are traces, fragments and relics; they are the aftermath of events that relate to the history of British industry and politics.