Annabel Owens
Inspiration for my artwork has come from my father who has worked a monotonous industrial job for over forty years. At the age of sixteen, my first job was working in a textile warehouse in the centre of Leeds, inspecting and fixing garments. For seven weeks I was working forty-two and a half hours a week, until the company realised that was illegal for a sixteen year old. The work was tedius and monotonous and often we were not allowed to talk to other employees on the production line. Eventually after three months of working in the warehouse I left the job because I could not visualise myself working the same tedious and monotonous job for twenty five years like my father; so I applied to further my education to help carve out a career in photography. My work now focuses on repetitions within work there it being: a nine to five working life and the vast amount of days the working class potentially has to work, repetitions within the rush hours to and from work or the repetitions within manual labour.