POLLY PENROSE (b. 1976) 'Social Media Nude'

Polly Penrose
Born in 1976 and studied Graphic Design at Camberwell College of Arts in London. She went on to work in fashion styling and after that worked for the photographer Tim Walker. She has always taken photographs, but started to take the practice seriously when she entered and won a competition held by the London Photographic Association in 2008. She held her first solo show, A Body of Work, at the Downstairs at Mother Gallery, London, in May 2014, and her second, 10 Seconds, at The Hoxton Gallery in 2016. She has exhibited in several group shows: Dear Sylvia at The Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, in 2015; Self Reflection at The Untitled Space, New York in 2016; Spring Break Art Show in New York and Image at Messums Wiltshire in 2018, and Gossamer at the Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate, in 2019.