You Animal, You!

Charlotte Cory  - artist, playwright and Bronte afficianado - is the subject of You Animal, You!, an in-depth look at the world of Charlotte Cory's art, featuring essays placing Cory’s art in context. Highly illustrated, great fun and at the same time oddly serious.

Cory’s photographic collages skillfully rework Victorian photographic visiting cards and invite viewers to speculate on the events behind the picture. Cory combines these poignant cartes-de-visite  images with portraits taken of stuffed animals from museums and her own collection. By recycling these dispossessed images and long-dead creatures, she gives them all a new lease of life. Brighter, more colourful, more interesting and more disturbing than before.

Cory's images are accompanied by featured essays, including an introduction to the world of the Visitorians by distinguished author and historian AN Wilson. The curator of the Royal Photograph Collection, Sophie Gordon, discusses Cory’s reinterpretation of Victorian photographic ideas and innovations for our age. You Animal, You! is an in-depth look at the world of this unusual artist that will delight her fans and interest newcomers to her work in equal measure.

Cory's work can also currently be viewed at The Green Parrot Gallery, London SE10.