Quinn [book]

Davies, Lottie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5928-519X (2021) Quinn [book]. Mutton Row Books, Penryn, Cornwall, UK. ISBN 978-1-5272-8664-1

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Abstract / Summary

Since 2014, British photographer, artist, and writer, Lottie Davies has worked extensively on the series
Quinn - an intricately researched and documented large-scale multimedia project that extends far beyond
the gallery walls and has now been published as a monograph that, through its unique design, acts as
a portable handheld version of the exhibition experience.

Quinn recounts the eponymous fictional story of a young man, William Henry Quinn, who, in post-Second
World War Britain, walks from the south-west of England to the far north of Scotland, in what becomes an
epic and symbolic journey. It is a meditation on grief, loss, loneliness, the human search for meaning, and
the possibility of redemption through time and landscape, pertinent across the ages.

Davies has consciously created in this series a multi-dimensional view of the titular figure and his story
by using moving-image works and large format photographs, ‘personal’ ephemera, text, and installations
created to be viewed and read side-by-side, much like simultaneously reading a novel, visiting the theatre,
and going to the cinema. The viewer can use these visual clues as a way of untangling as much or as little of
the narrative as they desire.

Davies cleverly translates this experiential process from the gallery space onto the pages of the monograph.
The physical sensation of Quinn’s movement is emulated visually through the numerous foldout pages
throughout the publication, and different sections are highlighted through varying paper stock. Most
notable is the carefully conceived production of Quinn’s diary, printed on opaque fine paper itself directly
inspired by the small annotated diary Davies’ grandfather wrote while deployed in Normandy during WWII.
As Quinn travels on his odyssey it is revealed to be both a physical and metaphorical journey mediated by
the British landscape, a geography that is both changed and unchanged since the 1940s. The ancient byways
along which he has travelled remain as they were then, and yet with the immutability of change and the
unremitting nature of time passing, lives and memories change and fade. While viewing the monograph,
the reader metaphorically and sensorially walks alongside Quinn, and if they choose, can listen to an online
recording of Samuel J Weir narrating the diary while turning the pages - continuing to blur the boundaries of
the real and the imagined.

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