Elspeth Diederix (1971)
Elspeth Diederix travels whenever she can. On her travels she gets the ideas that become her photographs and discovers the landscapes that she uses as the backdrops in them. Often it is no more than a flash among the everyday things around her in which she sees her shot - a plastic bag, a bright green ball or a coffee cup - which is then followed by a process of searching, experimenting and photographing as long as it takes to produce a real Diederix. Diederix has a feeling for warmth and colour. With deceptive ease she is able to elevate lifeless objects out of their context and draw out their inherent ambiguity, elegance or humour.
In the summer of 2008, Diederix worked as artist in residence at the European Ceramic Workcentre in 's-Hertogenbosch, where she further immersed herself in aspects of ordinary things, expanding her repertoire to objects such as the cassette tape. 'My goal is to make you take a new look at an existing something,' says Diederix. 'The beauty of something very ordinary, which you tend to overlook.'
* Diederix on radio programme De Avonden, VPRO, 25.06.2008
