Knight’s flowers, however, are different to those of his predecessors; they belong inherently to the digital age, a series of images Knight has been not promoting but actually creating through social media for the past six years. On June 24 he will open an ambitious show, featuring these,, his first major still-life exhibition in the United Kingdom. Albion Barn is in the sleepy parish of Little Milton in Oxfordshire, an unlikely locale for a major gallery.
All these images – 24 in total, of many produced – were taken on Knight’s iPhone and processed through Instagram, the original “gallery” for their display where he captions them, innocuously, “Roses From My Garden”. Each takes around four or five hours, photographed in natural daylight on the kitchen table in Knight’s David Chipperfield-designed house, with a whole back wall of glass affording ideal studio conditions.
But the lush images Knight creates have powerful links with centuries of imagery, by Renoir and Redoute, as well as various cultural stimuli: romance, death, and the potent symbolism of the flower, especially in an England shaped by the War of the Roses and entwined by the rambling sort as immortalised in everything from Merchant Ivory to
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hope one day he will make a book with them 3