Erin Solomons’ artworks have a photographic core that at times extends into other mediums, such as performance and sculpture. Throughout their practice, they persistently research the painful and self-deprecating effects of continual, domestic trauma in childhood. Specifically, Erin concentrates on behaviours and feelings that are tied to living with an insufficient boundary between the inside of a body and the world outside of it.
Solomons' research has been presented in conferences at Cambridge University, University College London, amongst other academic institutions. They received the Wood Institute Travel Grant (2017) as a means to utilise the archives and museum catalogues at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia and Mütter Museum. Their artworks have won awards, such as a Magnum Photo Graduate Award, First Place Book Award at ESPY Photo Awards, and Warden’s Purchase at Goldsmiths College, London. Solomons' work has exhibited across the United Kingdom, Europe, New York, and Brazil.
They were awarded a Practice – Based PhD in Photography from the University for the Creative Arts; and exhibited their doctoral research at the Nunnery Gallery, London, September to October 2021.
Selected Grants & Residencies
(November 2016)
College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA, USA
(August 2014)
Artist-in-Residence
Earthskin Muriwai
Auckland, New Zealand
Selected Conferences
(October 2020)
Don't Press Print:
The Collodion Process
The Royal Photographic Society
London, UK
(June 2017)
Curiosity and Cognition:
Embodied Things 1400-1900
CRASSH
University of Cambridge
Cambridge, UK
(September 2016)
Photography + Con(text)
Institute of Archeology
University College London
London, UK
About
Education
2021 PhD in Practice-Based Photography
University for the Creative Arts
Rochester, UK
2015 MA in Photography,
Royal College of Art
London, UK
2012 BA (Hons) in Art Practice,
Goldsmiths College,
University of London
London, UK
2012 BFA in Visual Communications,
magna cum laude
American Intercontinental University
London, UK
2012 BA (Hons) in Visual Communications,
London South Bank University
London, UK
Selected Publications
(July 2021)
Don't Press Print catalogue
Royal Photographic Society
London, UK
(December 2015)
Source Magazine
Online and Print
(May 2015)
Exit Strategies
Black Dog Publishing
London, UK
Selected Awards
(August 2017)
First Place Winner
Swansea College of Art Book Awards
ESPY Photo Awards
Elysium Gallery
Swansea, UK
(May 2016)
Magnum Photo Agency
Photo London
London, UK
(September 2012)
Finalist in Photography
Celeste Prize
Celeste Network
Rome, Italy
(June 2012)
Warden’s Purchase
Goldsmiths College
London, UK