Kadie Salmon (b.1986 Scotland) is a visual artist based in London, UK.

 

"Her practice utilises a variety of media, but she often uses photography at some stage in the creation of her work. She draws on notions of romance and eroticism, both historical and contemporary as starting points for her work. Her pieces usually comprise a colour photograph with a sculptural element along side. However her photographs often depict sculptures and models she has made, that are then documented and represented as two-dimensional images. The diverse elements in her work and the resulting installations tell a story and it is stories that really preoccupy her. Whether they are in films, novels, fairy tales, daydreams, told by mouth or described by pictures, stories allow us the chance to explore our problems, fantasies and even desires. It is the intimacy and secrecy of such stories that she draws on. In cinema, it is the structural techniques that she is most drawn to- but here it is the visual/sensory qualities such as the lighting, colours/filters and sounds such as those of director Argento's horror films or the melodramas of Douglas Sirk. In her own practice she explores this by breaking up her works in to different elements that are juxtaposed and layered up: often having the appearance of a collage of photography, sculpture and installation. Sometimes her photographs are mounted on wooden structures of “flats’ that echo the temporary walls of film sets, and the models and sculptures she constructs play with and distort scale in a similar way to props and backdrops used in film and theatre. She approaches her work as if it were a film still or chapter from the middle of a book- never offering the viewer the 'complete' story but instead breaking it up and distorting it so that with each new detail or layer offered, the viewer is taken on a different path."

 

- New Art Projects 2014