Imogen Huzel (she/her) is an English circus and visual artist. After spending a cold chunk of her life studying in Stockholm, Sweden, she graduated from Dans Och Cirkushögskolan in 2016, specialising in hand balancing.
Alongside her performance practice, Imogen has worked with analogue photography for over a decade. She shoots, develops and prints her own photographs, a quiet and deeply personal practice that continues to shape her artistic perspective.
Currently living a complicated love story with Berlin—home, although life is often lived elsewhere—Imogen has spent the past decade shaped by a nomadic existence of touring and creating. For the past five years, Imogen has dedicated most of her creative energy to her joint company, Based On Kimberly—a punk, playful and provocative creation house that keeps her excited about life.
Imogen has performed in more than 30 countries. Recent collaborations include a five-month run of Play Dead by People Watching at the Chamäeleon Theatre in Berlin, Hands Up with director Ofir Yudilevitch, and For as Long as We're Here, a durational hand-balancing project. Before co-founding Based On Kimberly, she toured extensively with her previous companies Right Way Down and Fauna Circus.
Her main goal continues to be staying in touch with creativity in whatever way feels intriguing, and believing in art as a way of bringing people closer.
Background....
Imogen, Imi, Imo.. grew up in an arty bubble. Her father was a painter and her parents made edible exhibition birthday spreads. Her influences were competitive gymnastics, youth circus, frog and sheep photography, cringy dance, outdoor survival, garden trampoline, and dress-up. Not so much has changed over the years… She still shoots analogue, though her photographic subjects have broadened, circus ate gymnastics, cringe is an ongoing balance and dress up has never been more relevant. Nowadays, at 32 her stage work is a mix much like these cakes and sandwiches.
