Photograph, 'Untitled' (diptych), a lying figure by Sophy Rickett, London, 1999.

Aluminium mounted diptych. Two photographs of the same area, one on the right is empty of human presence showing a landscape taken at night. On the left, a figure is lying face up in the same grass as in the other image. Her face is not visible.

Given by BMW Financial Services Group

This photograph was presented to the museum by BMW Financial Services Group in return for professional advice in 1998-1999. Part of a entitled Making Your Dreams Come True the work results from a commission awarded by BMW Financial Services Group.

Historical significance: Born in London in 1970, Sophy Rickett graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1999. Rickett's work explores uncertain psychological and spatial terrain at night, particularly the nowhere landscapes of arterial roads and roundabouts. Rickett was awarded the Arts Council of England Helen Chadwick Fellowship 2002-2003 at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art.

Reason For Production: Commission

Sophy Ricketts's work explores uncertain psychological and spatial terrains at night, particularly the nowhere landscapes of arterial roads and roundabouts. These half worlds are occupied by unexpected figured. 'Are they paralysed', the artist has written, 'by their very presence in this hinterland that offers no way of escape, or are they contemplating the dark space of the night, the secrets it hides and the incredible possibilities that it contains?'

E.799:1, 2-2000