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Interviews & Art Reviews
Empty Easel March 2008
High Art A film documentary by FridgeProductions (2005)
art_notes.pdf Tahoe Quarterly (Winter 1007/8)
summit article.doc Interview with Summit Magazine, British
Mountaineering Council
L’Escalade, French Climbing Magazine
“Shelley's artistry is both accessible and heartful. It seems to me that the archetypal movement the rock renders in the climber remains in vital form in her drawings and paintings. Bodies are interesting forms and so is rock. When the two come together the mind and body can change in their own way according to the rhythms they meet. Shelley represents these in a personal way which I enjoy, I hope you do too.”
Johnny Dawes, Top Climber
"Much climbing imagery today has become flat and devoid of emotion, its main aim seeming to be as proof that an event happened, that something was indeed, ascended. As such, it says little. Shelley Hocknell’s work stands apart from that in that it sets itself the task of revealing that climbing is not simply an act, but a combination of the physical and the emotional.
The pictures themselves have a great sense of motion about them, where what is captured is not an isolated incident, but a suggestion of a movement, through time and place, with a past and a future. And while, to a climber, their subjects may be recognizable, they still manage to be free from the context of that subject. These are not images of a crux, of a move; they are stories of effort and of striving. They are not a document of some inevitable success; they are captured feelings that any climber has felt when going beyond themselves. As such, they are universal - universal to all climbs and all climbers, and beyond."
Niall Grimes, On the Edge Magazine/British Mountaineering Council
