Young Rider 2021
Fenella has ridden all her life and has always been interested in the connection between riders and their mounts. Lockdown has offered the opportunity to start working on a project highlighting this loving and enduring, but often complex relationship between human and equine.
Being the mother of a son she also wanted an opportunity to create work which shows boys expressing tenderness and care, contradicting the traditional, patriarchal narrative of these being only acceptable as female traits.
In Young Rider 2021, Harrison embodies strength, dynamism and assertiveness, side by side with sensitivity, gentleness, affection and cooperation; all of which are important in a successful rider.
"Up until recently, boys and men were shamed for expressing any genuine feelings except for anger. And that's a terrible message to send to a human being who is capable of experiencing feelings we don't even yet have words for." Raymond Buscemi, PsyD
Lockdown Lego
By Photographer Fenella Mett (40yrs old) and Lego Sculptor Arthur Hertrich-Mett (4yrs old)
Stuck in the first lockdown of 2020, unable to go to nursery and play with his friends, Arthur took solace in the alternative reality of Lego. He would sit for hours constructing. Enthusiastically he would explain their sometimes complex and often bizarre niche uses. When he went to bed Fenella would sneak a few into her studio to record them before they were unceremoniously deconstructed the following day, noting down his descriptions for posterity.
Hackney Shadows in March
Curated Meat
Art direction Georgia Cavanagh
Prompted by an increasingly prevalent mindset of morality-based diets, we created a confronting, oddly amusing photo essay. Reflecting our severe detachment from meat and its source. It takes on a new, obscure form and interpretation; uncomfortable yet familiar, a macabre piece of art.
Black Jelly
Food styling by Lucy Ruth Hathaway
