In a refreshingly original book, author, and curator Tiggy Maconochie connects humanity with the horse through a contemporary visual lens via artists who are not typically known for their horse-inspired work. Maconochie has curated a one-of-a-kind collection in one volume combining performance art, poetry, video stills, three-dimensional pieces, as well as painting and photography, as she tells the stories behind each work, linking them across nine themes. The book includes works by a diverse range of artists, including Marina Abramović, Maurizio Cattelan, Richard Prince, Martin Parr, Man Ray, Lucien Freud, David Smith, Nan Goldin, Ugo Rondinone and Georgia O’Keefe. The foreword is a standalone piece by Tracey Emin, who has also contributed visually through film stills.
Tiggy Maconochie, renowned photography creative, artist and author. Originally part of the select group that formed the “photography review” during the mid-late 80s, her expansive career led her to found her own photographic agency that paralleled art and fashion, representing Helmut Newton, Corinne Day and multimedia artist Michael Roberts, among significant others for over three decades.
Maconochie’s work with these varied fashion photographers has impacted culture in a vast way as each had their own distinctive style - iconic, radical and unparalled - because of this, their work continues to be relevant, globally sought after and revered.
Dividing her time between London and Uruguay, she founded and designed a luxury knitwear line inspired by her life in Latin American. Which went on to be the first fashion label to represent the country at London Fashion Week, 2013.
Maconochie continues to diversify her creative practise, in 2024, her first solo exhibition of her own work of photosnaps and multimedia, ‘Lost Horrizons under an Endless Sky’, opened at Black Gallery, Montevideo.
Maureen Paley was one of the first to present contemporary art in London’s East End and has pioneered the current scene by promoting and showing a diverse range of international artists.
The gallery programme began in 1984 in a Victorian terraced house in London’s East End. Initially named Interim Art, the gallery changed its name to Maureen Paley in 2004 to celebrate its 20 year anniversary. The gallery aim has remained consistent: to promote great and innovative artists in all media.
Gallery artists include Turner Prize winners Gillian Wearing, 1997; Wolfgang Tillmans, 2000 and Lawrence Abu Hamdan, 2019, as well as Turner Prize nominees Hannah Collins, 1993; Jane and Louise Wilson, 1999; Liam Gillick, 2002; Rebecca Warren, 2006; and Rory Pilgrim, 2023. Maureen Paley was born in New York, studied at Sarah Lawrence College, and graduated from Brown University with her BA before coming to the UK in 1977 where she completed her Master’s at The Royal College of Art, 1978-80.