International fashion and beauty photographer Nadette Clare-Talbot launched her first Maltese exhibition at Le Méridien St Julian’s Hotel & Spa yesterday.

Entitled Lacey & Lace, Clare-Talbot’s exhibition celebrates Malta’s iconic craft through the lens of beauty and stills photography and showcases 18 works accentuating lace as the common theme.

“The concept for this exhibition was born from my love of lace,” says the artist.  “From my years of shooting for glossy magazines like Elle, Glamour and marie claire, I found that I instinctively visualised my imagery in a double-page layout. I wanted to echo that idea in my exhibition by creating images as a two-part story.”

Lacey & Lace features nine beauty portraits each exploring a different theme and flavour, with each portrait paired with a complementary still.  Although all the images are being exhibited in pairs, each can still exist in their own right.

“From the onset, my aim was to create images that were extremely textured and layered,” says Clare-Talbot.

“As lace is the common thread, I explored the concept by integrating the fabric in the styling aspects of the subject matter and then layering the images digitally afterwards by incorporating scanned-in pieces of the textile.”

The final pieces are printed on canvas at 80 x 120cm each, to fully appreciate the layered textures.

Each beauty portrait is titled by incorporating the girl’s name Lacey, and the word Lace.

• The exhibition runs at Le Meridien St Julians Hotel & Spa until the end of August.“Lacey & Lace” has been curated by Claude Camilleri of Gallery Marcoux.

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