British photographer Alice Poyzer’s work centres on portraiture and constructed imagery, creating black-and-white visuals that are at once striking and playful, with an almost textural quality. This is manifest in her output from a six-month residency at Paul Smith’s Foundation last year, which gave Poyzer access to the revered designer’s archive and warehouse in Nottingham, where, she has explained, she could respond and create “without restriction”.
The result is a series that’s somewhere between documentary and curio, a combination that has delighted Sir Paul Smith himself: “Her approach has been surprising ... with a surreal, slightly theatrical aspect to it which has been quite terrific. It is tongue in cheek, fun and very modern.”
