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Lot Essay
Anna Fox's series, Country Girls', a collaboration with the singer Alison Goldfrapp, is the story of Sweet Fanny Adams, an eight-year old girl who was murdered and dismembered in Alton in 1867.
Fox uses this macabre event as the starting point for unsettling images of Goldfrapp with her legs sticking out of bushes at odd angles. 'They're on the border between glamour and horror,' says Fox. Still, she remains ambivalent about the countryside. 'If you come out and go back in, it's a place of inspiration,' she says. 'But it's a space that still makes me anxious.'
Gift of Anna Fox, Alison Goldfrapp and James Hyman Photography, London.
Fox uses this macabre event as the starting point for unsettling images of Goldfrapp with her legs sticking out of bushes at odd angles. 'They're on the border between glamour and horror,' says Fox. Still, she remains ambivalent about the countryside. 'If you come out and go back in, it's a place of inspiration,' she says. 'But it's a space that still makes me anxious.'
Gift of Anna Fox, Alison Goldfrapp and James Hyman Photography, London.