FOAM MAGAZINE #20 / TALENT / ELLIOTT WILCOX

Elliott Wilcox

Elliott Wilcox was born in 1987 in Southampton, United Kingdom. He graduated from the University of Wales, Newport, with a Bachelors in Photographic Art in 2008.

Wilcox has received several awards including a Judges’ Award at the Nikon Discovery Awards and a New York Photo Award in 2009. He has exhibited in Britain. His work was part of Singapore’s first International Photography Festival and selected for both Catalyst Arts Belfast and the Crane Kalman Gallery Brighton’s Graduate showcase exhibitions, and Elliott Wilcox is affiliated with Wanted in Paris.

His work is featured in the Magenta Foundation’s latest publication on the future of photography, focusing on emerging talent, Flash Forward - Emerging Photographers 2009, which exhibition will tour. Wilcox’s work will be part of the exhibition Prune - Abstracting Reality at Foam_Fotografiemuseum this autumn.

Courts examines representations of the enclosed spaces of sports courts. In photographing the empty courts, minus the fast-paced action  the spaces become estranged. The vivid stains, ball marks, blood and scratches force the viewer to focus on these details rather than the court.

All images ΠElliott Wilcox