VENETIA DEARDEN'S PORTRAITS TAKEN AT GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL WILL BE ON DISPLAY FOR THE FIRST TIME AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY BEGINNING IN APRIL. SINCE 2004, DEARDON HAS BEEN DOCUMENTING THE MUSIC FESTIVAL AND TAKING PORTRAITS IN AN ON-SITE TEMPORARY STUDIO. THE 16 PHOTOGRAPHS ON DISPLAY WILL INCLUDE PORTRAITS OF DAME SHIRLEY BASSEY, LILLY ALLEN, PETE TOWNSHEND, LEONARD COHAN AND A SELECTION OF FESTIVAL GOERS. THE PORTRAITS ARE ALL SHOT AGAINST A WHITE STUDIO BACKDROP REMOVING THE SITTERS FROM THE CONTEXT OF THE FESTIVAL. THE WELLINGTON BOOTS, FLIP FLOPS AND MUDDY FOOTPRINTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE CLUES AS TO THE LOCATION OF THE SHOOT. THE PORTRAITS OFFER A GLIMPSE OF THE DIVERSITY AND CHARACTER OF THE 150,000 VISITORS WHO CONVERGE ON GLASTONBURY MUSIC FESTIVAL, NOW IN ITS 40th YEAR. BORN IN 1975, VENETIA DEARDON GREW UP IN SOMERSET NEXT TO THE FESTIVAL SITE AND HAS BEEN ATTENDING AND WORKING AT THE GLASTONBURY FESTIVAL SINCE A YOUNG AGE. SHE STUDIED ANTHROPOLOGY AT EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY BEFORE TAKING A POSTGRADUATE COURSE IN PHOTOJOURNALISM AT THE LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING. HER WORK WAS INCLUDED IN THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZE IN 2006 AND 2007, AND TWO OF HER WORKS ARE IN THE COLLECTION OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY. HER PHOTOGRAPHS HAVE APPEARED IN PUBLICATIONS SUCH AS VOGUE, WALLPAPER, HARPERS BAZZAAR AND THE SUNDAY TIMES MAGAZINE AND HER FIRST BOOK SOMERSET STORIES, FIVEPENNY DREAMS WAS PUBLISHED BY KEHRER IN 2008.
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