Yve Lomax

Lomax has produced voice and spoken performances including: Political Life, 2021; From intimacy without relation to demand: rhythmos, 2018; You are looking at something that never occurred — event, example: photographic image, 2017; Examples, species, figures, 2014; Word, problem, figure, 2013; Beginning, ends and middles, 2011.

In 2021 Lomax released her first film work, Political Life (55 mins); in the supporting personal notes she details her approach to the making of this film.

Lomax’s work was included in the show Three Perspectives on Photography ‘Feminism and Photography’ curated by Angela Kelly, Hayward Gallery, London, 1979, with Arts Council publication and contribution: Some stories which I have heard: some questions which I have asked, pp 52–55 ISBN 0-7287-0195-2. From the early 80s to the late 90s, Lomax exhibited photographically based work in group shows:

In the early 1970s, Lomax studied Fine Art at St Martins School of Art, now Central St Martins (UAL). In 1979 she completed her postgraduate studies in Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art. From the late 1980s Lomax teaches both theory and practice in a variety of art colleges in London. She was a Senior Research Tutor in Photography at the Royal College of Art (2001–18).

Yve Lomax (born 18 December 1952) is a British visual artist, writer and theorist who is interested in feminism and the photographic image. Since the late 1970s she has exhibited nationally and internationally; her first book of collected writings was published in 2000 under the title of Writing the image: an adventure with art and theory. She is a founder member of Copy Press publishers and its Reader’s Union.