About

Courtney Ralph is a photographic based artist born in Bexhill, East Sussex and currently living and studying for her BA (Hons) degree at the University of Brighton. Her work informs personal experiences and topics for discussion. She believes her encounters with her skin are a topic of relevancy that is often an issue unspoken in the arts. Therefore, she has begun the discussion by creating a platform for understanding and collaborative information. It is her way of expressing the skin form through the photographic and re-photographic process to the point of painterly image sculpture of not only the image but the identification of atopy. She often produces work centred around the human form, particularly of the skin, informed by the subject matter of her practice. The exploration and understanding of the discomforted skin and exploring the uncomfortableness of one’s skin through the different material formations is crucial. She investigates and expands her work in alternative media materials to show the relation to the methods of treating the skin and has taken upon this upcoming approach of material as a new direction to inform. She photographs expressions beyond the image and educates on the skin.