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Bonnell’s practice has developed significantly over thirty years. She initially used the camera to record ‘actions of/with objects (often found or readymade) placed together as assemblages in carefully selected locations, made specifically to exist whilst the camera shutter remains open. In re-placing and re-framing these assemblages and sites, their contexts are disrupted and removed’. Since then, Bonnell’s approach has developed into something she describes as ‘Wilful Amateurism’, which involves the fusing of sculpture and performance into something photographic. Bonnell notes that the ‘experiential origins are feminist, inhabiting the domestic, absurdism and motherhood’. The driving force behind her work is a desire to subvert the technical aspects of photography, to focus on experiencing and understanding the space between reality and fantasy.\r\n\r\nThe photographs in the series Camera IV: Manners were taken during a research fellowship in Rome in 2011. Bonnell encountered Fra Angelico’s fresco paintings in the Monastery of San Marco, Florence, describing them as ‘the ultimate instruction manual’. Using the studio as her ‘cell’, Bonnell re-performed St. Dominic’s Nine Manners of Prayer in real time over the course of one day: ‘In inhabiting this potential white space of the artist’s cell, the found object/person loses herself in play using just her body to convey meanings’.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Colour photograph depicting a woman in a bending pose in a white room","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Sian Bonnell","id":"A5986"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"photographic paper","id":"AAT14190"}],"techniques":[{"text":"","id":""},{"text":"photography","id":"AAT54225"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Digital lambda print","categories":[{"text":"Allegory","id":"THES250534"},{"text":"Photographs","id":"THES48910"},{"text":"Religion","id":"THES48900"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":["2015HX6367","2015HX7025"],"imageResolution":"high","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"LVLH","id":"THES49654"},"free":"","case":"DELTA","shelf":"12","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Rome","id":"x29106"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":"The photograph was madewhilst Bonnell was undertaking the Photoworks Senior Research Fellowship at the British School at Rome"}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"2011","earliest":"2011-01-01","latest":"2011-12-31"},"association":{"text":"photographed","id":"x30151"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Purchased through the Cecil Beaton Fund","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"389","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"22/08/16","earliest":"2016-08-22","latest":"2016-08-22"},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Height","value":"510","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"22/08/16","earliest":"2016-08-22","latest":"2016-08-22"},"part":"paper","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"583","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"22/08/16","earliest":"2016-08-22","latest":"2016-08-22"},"part":"image","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"608","unit":"mm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"22/08/16","earliest":"2016-08-22","latest":"2016-08-22"},"part":"paper","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"A photograph by Sian Bonnell entitled 'Camera IV: Manners I' from the series 'Camera IV: Manners', digital lambda print, 2011","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"Limited edition print 1/6","productionType":{"text":"Limited edition","id":"THES48862"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.814-2014"],"accessionNumberNum":"814","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2014,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"1/6","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2014-11-18","availableToBook":false}}