Touch-Line: Untitled - Sandy Park Stadium
In Sank’s images, location and environment provide the narrative for a portrait. By recording her subjects in their surroundings – a park, a living room – the photographer prompts us to reflect on the connection between an individual and their ‘space’.
In the case of Touch-Line however, the location is not topographical. There are suggestions of Exeter and Devon – a glimpsed church spire perhaps – but the subjects are not in their natural location. Physically, the rugby pitch is nondescript. The space depicted in Touch-Line is instead a cultural space: an arena, a game.
In this distinctive cultural space Sank reveals there are people shouting, dressing up, reversing conventions and indulging, for a moment, in magic and enchantment.
In the case of Touch-Line however, the location is not topographical. There are suggestions of Exeter and Devon – a glimpsed church spire perhaps – but the subjects are not in their natural location. Physically, the rugby pitch is nondescript. The space depicted in Touch-Line is instead a cultural space: an arena, a game.
In this distinctive cultural space Sank reveals there are people shouting, dressing up, reversing conventions and indulging, for a moment, in magic and enchantment.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 18/2020/19
- Collection Class
- Photographs
- Medium
- digital C-Type photographic print on
- Common Name
- Touch-Line: Untitled - Sandy Park Stadium
- Simple Name
- photograph
- Period Classification
- Modern (1945-)
- Production Town
- Exeter
- Production County
- Devon
- Production Country
- United Kingdom: England
- Production Date
- 16/05/2015
- Production Person Initials
- Michelle
- Production Person Surname
- Sank
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
