Artist Profile

HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT

AS TWO FRIENDS WHO FIRST started taking photos together when we were sixteen years old, our artistic process sprung from a place of curiosity, impulse and desire. This sense of playfulness has become the foundational element with which we continue to work. Although precognitive at the time, we seemed to recognise a mutual desire to explore our female bodies, sexuality and surrounding natural environment as a way of feeling connected to the space we were occupying.

We both had various ways of taking in and appreciating the world around us that differed from but complemented each other’s; we wanted to express something that could not be expressed through words. Together we were strongly drawn to the tenderness and complexity

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