Black argues that visuals in rural noir texts tend to exploit forests and green spaces as malevolent mise-en-scène’s to femicide.
Trish Black
Trish Black is a former musician and songwriter with decades of live performance and recording experience. She received her Master’s in Fine Art Photography in 2020 from Ulster University, Belfast School of Art, and is presently an arts-based PhD candidate with Swansea College of Art, UWTSD. Black’s creative practice utilises a hybrid of film photography, cyanotype printing techniques, film projections and video to investigate, challenge and subvert portrayals of the violable woman and discarded female corpse widely disseminated in popular crime narrative visuals. Recent exhibitions include: FILIA Art Exhibition, 2018 – São Paulo, Brazil. AFK Art Encounter, 2023 – Studio Griffith Art Gallery, Swansea, and Cursor Art Encounter, 2024 – Studio Griffith Art Gallery, Swansea.
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