Elspeth Diederix

Elspeth Diederix (b. 1971, Nairobi, Kenya) creates photographic images that inspire the viewer to look at everyday things anew.
Sunset, produced two years after her graduation from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, is an example of this. At first sight, her works appear to be spontaneous snapshots, or perhaps the result of digital manipulation, but they are in fact the outcome of extensive visual research. There is no image manipulation involved, although they are the result of a careful process of trial and error.

More recently Diederix has turned her camera chiefly on the plant and animal kingdoms, and for several years now she has kept up a blog on Instagram of the flower garden which she herself designed in Amsterdam’s Erasmus Park, and which, with the aid of volunteers, she continues to maintain as an art project.

Artworks in the collection

Sunset (1997, detail)