Work:
Groover originally trained as an abstract painter and began taking photographs in the late 1970s. She explored images of the city, architecture, sculptures, landscape and portraits. She is best known for her studio still lives which began to preoccupy her work from the 1970s to today. Groover can be seen as carrying on the tradition of the objective or straight photograph. Her works compares to that of Cunningham, Stieglitz, Weston, Strand in that her work is sharply focused, is abstracted, looks for geometry and contrasts. Groover is interested in the reflected surface and the effect this causes in refracting light. Her work presents an interest in the exchange of colours between forms via a reflective surface. She is clearly interested in surfaces and the contrast between man made metallic hard edged materials and the more delicate natural forms e.g. plants, fruit and vegetables. Groover creates still lives out of ordinary household kitchen equipment (knives, forks, bowls, cutters). Groover is working with the classical still life tradition, the artist arranges and composes the forms and then captures elements of this arrangement. For Groover she has the power to present as much or as little of these surfaces as she wishes. We may see only a very small part of a fork. Groover "I think it is lovely that a knife can be pink. Its shape can be moulded by light, the silver surface picks up and reflects bits of colour - it's all very liquid" (Photo Book, Phaidon).