About

A brief biography & achievements

Self portrait of Nancy Honey, October 1987

REF: NEH-1987-10-AM-0002

Self portrait of Nancy Honey, October 1987

Self portrait, October 1987
Part of the National Portrait Gallery collection

Nancy Honey’s personal work is just that – personal. Made over nearly 40 years, her images draw on her own experiences to consider topics such as motherhood, sexuality, power, and ageing. But though they’re framed by her biography, her projects look outwards, depicting and recording everyone from schoolgirls to businesswomen, infants to the elderly, models and bus passengers. As such they create a consistent body of work that’s asked a single question from many different angles – what does it mean to be a woman, now, in this particular time and place?

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“Now the lack of diversity in photography and the position of women in our society is once again being considered; over the last 40 years, Nancy Honey has already walked the walk as a retrospective look over her 40-year career shows”
“Nancy Honey’s personal work is just that – personal. Made over nearly 40 years, her images draw on her own experiences to consider topics such as motherhood, sexuality, power, and ageing”

Limited Editions Prints

The photographs on this website are for sale as Artist prints.

Please email me to ask about specific pictures, sizes and prices.

Solo Exhibitions

2019 City Bus 25th Anniversary Exhibition
K6 Gallery, Southampton
2016 100 Leading Ladies
Cartwright Hall, Bradford
2015 100 Leading Ladies
Hogan Lovell, London
2015 100 Leading Ladies
Barclays Global HQ, London
2014 100 Leading Ladies
Somerset House, London
1998 Secret Lives Luton
Chatham, Kent, Public Art Commission
1997 City Bus Project
Braga Photography Festival, Braga, Portugal
1996 Recent Work
Melkweg Gallerie, Amsterdam
1994 Old Enough To Know Better
Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge
1993 Photographie - Nancy Honey
Maison Pour Tous, Calais, France
1993 City Bus Project
Southampton, Public Art Commission
1992 Entering The Masquerade
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, and touring
1990 Woman To Woman
Royal Photographic Society, Bath and touring
1988 A Document
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol, and touring
1986 Recent Work
F Stop Gallery, Bath

Group Exhibitions

A selected listing

2022 One Artist-One Minute
Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
2021 History of Photobooks
Institut pour la photographie, Lille, France
2019 209 Women
Open Eye Liverpool
2018 209 Women
Portcullis House, London
2013 Achievement - recent acquisitions
National Portrait Gallery, London
2009 LPA/Futures
Printspace, London
2008 In Our Manor
Waterloo Gallery, London
2006 Encontros da Imagem
Braga International Photography Festival, Portugal
2005 Outskirts
Spitalfields Literary Festival, London
2002 One Heart, One World
NHK Japan Television touring Exhibition
1998 Encontros da Imagem
Braga International Photography Festival, Portugal
1998 Exhibition 98
Association of Photographers, London
1997 Fotofeis International Festival
Glasgow, Scotland
1996 Habitus
Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
1994 Our Bodies, Ourselves
Nottingham Castle Museum
1993 Women Artists Diary Exhibition
Fulham Palace, London
1993 Desert Island Pics
The Photographers Gallery, London
1991 A Daughter’s View
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol and touring
1988 Self Portraiture Exhibition
Women Artists Slide Library, London and touring
1988 Recent Work
Royal Photographic Society, Bath
1987 Women Artists Diary Exhibition
Fulham Palace, London
1987 Regarding Photography
Ffotogallery, Cardiff
1986 Young Contemporaries
Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Public & Private Collections

Monographs

2014 100 Leading Ladies
Dewi Lewis Media, UK
2008 Poodle Parlour
One Picture Books, Nazraeli Press, USA
1992 Entering The Masquerade
National Musuem of Photography, Film & TV
1990 Woman To Woman
Hexagon Editions, UK

Articles & Reviews

2014 Creative Review, London
2014 Daily Record, Scotland
2014 i Magazine, UK nationwide
2014 The Observer, London
2014 The Sunday Times, London
2014 The Guardian, London
2014 Women & Home, UK nationwide
1999 Creative Review, London
1998 D Magazine, La Republica, Italy
1996 FOTO, Amsterdam
1994 Women's Art Magazine, No 59
1992 Portfolio Magazine, Edinburgh
1992 Creative Camera, London
1992 FOTO Nr 2, Sweden
1991 Women's Art Magazine, London
1988 British Journal of Photography, London

Broadcast Interviews

2014 Radio Soho
2014 Monocle Radio
2002 BBC Radio 4: Secret History of Sex
1997 BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour
1994 BBC Radio 4: Kaleidoscope
1993 BBC Radio 3: Night Waves
1993 Channel 4: Without Walls
1993 Meridian TV, The Pier
1993 GMTV Breakfast Time, London
1992 BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour
1990 HTV Scene 90
1988 BBC Radio 4: Woman's Hour

Lectures & Talks

A selected listing

  • National Museum of Science and Media
    Bradford, UK
  • Photographers’ Gallery
    London, UK
  • Royal Photographic Society
    Bath, UK
  • University of Brighton
    Brighton, UK
  • University of California
    Los Angeles, USA
  • University of Derby
    Derby, UK
  • Kingston University
    London, UK
  • University of Sunderland
    Sunderland, UK
  • University of Westminster
    London, UK
  • California Institute of the Arts
    Santa Clara, USA
  • Cartwright Hall Art Gallery
    Bradford, UK
  • Edinburgh Art College
    Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Southampton Solent University
    Southampton, UK
  • Guardian Lecture, London College of Communication
    London, UK
  • Institute of Directors
    London, UK
  • Somerset House
    London, UK
  • The Girls Network
    London, UK
  • Barclays Bank
    London, UK
  • Eversheds Sutherland
    London, UK
  • Linklaters
    London, UK
  • Unilever
    London, UK

Education & Awards

2009 A Very British Christmas Competition
Proximity Advertising Agency, UK
1992 Public Arts Commission
Southern Arts & Citybus, Southampton, UK
1991/92 Fellowship
National Science and Media Museum, UK
1989 Self Publishing Award-ACE
London, UK
1987 Southwest Arts Project Award-ACE
Bradford, UK
1985 Honorary Post Graduate Fellowship (Photography)
Bath Academy of Art, UK
1983 BA (Hons) in Visual Communication
Bath Academy of Art at Corsham, Wiltshire, UK
1967 Fine Art
San Francisco Art Institute, USA
1965 Fine Art
University of Oregon, USA
Portrait of Nancy Honey photographing

REF: E&N-6825

Portrait of Nancy Honey photographing

Nancy Honey photographing, 2015

Work Within Publications

2020 'Seeking Thrills', album by Georgia
Domino Music, UK  
2019 209 Women
Bluecoat Press, UK  
2018 100 Pioneering Women
National Portrait Gallery, UK  
2018 'Born to be Wild' by Hattie Garlick
Bloomsbury Press, UK  
1988 'Pictures of Innocence' by Anne Higgonet
Thames & Hudson, UK  

Editorial Publications

A selected listing

Adbusters, Canada
Anna, Italy
Biba, France
Company Magazine, UK
Cosmo Girl, UK
Cosmopolitan, UK
Dealer Deluxe, France
elle Girl, UK
Everywoman, UK
Guardian , UK
Guardian Women’s Page, UK
Independent on Saturday, UK
Independent on Sunday, UK
J 17, UK
Madame Figaro, Le Figaro, France
Marie Claire, UK
Men’s Health, UK
New Yorker, USA
Psychologies, UK
Red Magazine, UK
Saga Magazine, UK
Saturday Telegraph Magazine, UK
Sunday Telegraph Magazine, UK
Sunday Times Magazine, UK
Tank, UK
Tatler, UK
The Economist, UK
Time Magazine, USA
Time Out, UK
You Magazine, UK