GLUE Book Fair - ICA

Group Matter at GLUE Book Fair. I’ll be showing ‘Shadows of the Flowers’.

Symbiosis III - Brighton Photo Fringe

Symbiosis III organised by the London Alternative Photography Collective @londonaltphoto at Brighton @photofringe - curated by Hayley Harrison @hayley_harrison_ Dr Melanie King @melaniekatking and Ky Lewis @kylewis1 



Dates: 04 October - 17 November 2024. Exhibition opening event: 4th October evening

Venue: Pheonix Art Space, 10-14 Waterloo Pl, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN2 9NB

Artists: 
Ed Sykes/Ky Lewis/Hayley Harrison/Megan Ringrose/Soham Joshi/Sophie Sherwood/Esme Papa /Sayako Sugawara/Anna Lukala/Anna Kroeger/Riya Panwar/Wendy Hardie/
Laura Hindmarsh/Milena Michalski/Zara Carpenter

Opening this week - Stillness in Movement Part 1- The London Group Exhibition

STILLNESS IN MOVEMENT

PV: Wed 18 Sep 6-9pm
PART 1: 17-21 September
PV: Wed 25 Sep 6-9pm

PART 2: 24-28 September

Venue: Bermondsey Project Space
183-185 Bermondsey Street, London SE1 3UW
Opening Times:
Tuesday - Saturday 11am - 6pm
‘Not known, because not looked for
But heard, half heard in the stillness
Between two waves of the sea’
from Four Quartets by T S Eliot

Group exhibition Schatten haschen is now open

Schatten haschen

Barbara Beyer, Marie-Therese Ross, Sayako Sugawara

PV: Wednesday 29 May 6pm-8pm

Dates: 30th May - 5th July 2024

Venue: Swiss Cottage Gallery (inside Swiss Cottage Library), 88 Avenue Road, London NW3 3HA

Exhibition text ‘ Writing without words…’ by artist and art historian Aliki Braine

Events:

Little Draw Workshop Thursday 20th June 6-7.45pm
Artists Talk with Aliki Braine Thursday 27th June 6-7.45pm
Family Collage Workshop Sat 29th June 2-4pm
Please book via eventbrite using the highlight link above. These are all free.

@schatten_haschen is a group show with artists @sayako_sugawara @beyer.ba & @marietherese_ross @swisscottagelibrary
Open Mon-Thurs 10-8pm
Fri-Sat 10-5pm
Closed Sunday

Symbiosis II

Symbiosis II

Dates: 15-18 May 2024 11am-6pm

Organised by London Alternative Photography Collective  at Four Corners Gallery - curated by Hayley Harrison, Melanie King, and Ky Lewis.

A group exhibition exploring the relationship between image makers, the more-than-human, and alternative photographic processes.

Venue: Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, Bethnal Green

Exhibiting Artists: Aindreas Scholz / Anna Kroeger / Anna Luk / Anna Lukala / Catriona Gray / Constanza Isaza Martinez /  Ed Sykes / Eileen White /  Eric Fong  / Hayley Harrison / Heloise Bergman / Inga Tillere / Jacqui Barrowcliffe / Katrina Stamatopoulos / Ky Lewis / Laura Hindmarsh / Leanne Wiggers / Luca Ortis / Magda Kuca / Martha Gray / Megan Ringrose / .Melanie King / Milena Michalski / Nettie Edwards / Paeony Lewis / Riya Panwar / Roellof Bakker / Sayako Sugawara / Sophie Sherwood / Vikki Rutter / Yasuaki Matsumoto / Zara Carpenter

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Symbiosis

‘Symbiosis’ is a group exhibition exploring the relationship between image makers, the more-than-human, and alternative photographic processes.

Exhibition Open: 18th January - 27 January 2024.
Hundred Years Gallery: 13 Pearson St, London E2 8JD.
Opening Times: Wed - Fri 14:00 to 19:00 Sat: 16:00 to 19:00 Sun: 13:30 to 19:00
Evening Events opening: 19:30 to 22:00

Private View: Thursday 18th of January 2024 6.30 to 9.30
Photo-scanner synth demo by Hack Modular. @hack_modular
Closing event & artist tour: Saturday 27 January 2024 4-7.30pm.

Alice Watkins / Anna Kroeger / Anna Luk / Anna Lukala / Catriona Gray / Constanza Isaza Martinez / Ed Sykes / Eileen White / Eric Fong / Esme Papa / Hayley Harrison
Imogen Locke / Katrina Stamatopoulous / Ky Lewis / Leanne Wiggers / Magda Kuca
Megan Ringrose / Nettie Edwards / Paeony Lewis / Roelof Bakker / Sayako Sugawara
Sophia Sherwood / Walter and Zoniel

photosensitive

photosensitive

curated by Tom Norris and Nadège Mériau

Dates: 16 Nov 2023 – 29 Jan 2024

Milton Gallery, St Paul’s School

Londsdale Road, London SW13 9JT

Photosensitive Poster Image: Rosa Nguyen

Photosensitive, an exhibition of cyanotypes, originated from ongoing darkroom explorations and dialogues among staff and students at St Paul’s Girls School.
The show points to the transformative potential of psychological and chemical interactions, to what happens when humans or substances converge beyond linear hierarchal systems. Established artists have been invited to exhibit alongside students and educators, some of whom are accomplished artists themselves. In addition to the showcased artworks, there will be a small program of cyanotype workshops to engage young people in this analogue process, fostering an expanded network and dialogue inspired by the exhibition.

The cyanotype process combines two chemicals: ferric ammonium citrate and potassium ferricyanide. Through this chemical reaction, a light sensitive solution is made that can be applied to a variety of surfaces, ranging from paper to clay. The method involves creating a print without the use of a camera or a negative; instead, an object is placed directly onto the coated, dry paper and then exposed to sunlight or UV light. The final image is revealed after washing the paper in water, resulting in a white silhouette set against a blue-cyan background. Cyanotypes are unique in that they serve as direct physical records of objects, yet they offer mere traces rather than three-dimensional 'presence,' imbuing them with an elusive and enigmatic quality.

Through this early photographic process, Photosensitive immerses us in the realms of the spectral, the evocative and the forgotten, creating a space for subconscious, liquid or aerial worlds. For some of the artists in the show, the cyan hue conjures up bodies of water, whether it be the ocean (Mina Kim and Nadège Mériau), the river Thames (Tom Norris) or the rain (Sayako Sugawara). For others, cyanotypes evoke the ghostly essence of memories, be they real or imagined, as seen in Helen Barff's fabric works, which pay tribute to the unsung heroines of WWII, Spencer Rise's glimpses into her mother's wardrobe, or Riona Das' Sari, imprinted with photographs of Kolkata and London projected on her body. Sonia Kahn's comic book recollects the original graphic use of cyanotype as blueprint. Meanwhile, Rosa Nguyen and Meera Bahree challenge our expectations of the medium by either submerging their prints in clay (Rosa NGuyen) or applying the photosensitive solution to red fabric, silencing the cyan color in innovative ways.

Porous Light- Group Exhibition 25-29 October 2023

Porous Light - Experimental, Alternative Process, Analogue Photography Exhibition

Dates: 25 - 29 October PV: Thursday 26 October 6-9pm

Venue: Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Rd. E2 7DG

'Porous Light' brings together 20 artists working across alternative process analogue photography. The show, which has been curated by Wendy Hardie, will predominantly explore environmental and societal themes, most often in experimental ways that push what photography’s boundaries are seen to be,
how this field of photography can resonate within and between us, how it can empower, enlighten, educate and entrance.

Exhibiting Artists: Marcelo Boldrini/Nicole Burnay/Laurie Evans/Zara Carpenter/Eric Fong/Martha Gray/Riitta Hakkarainen/Wendy Hardie/Liz Harrington/Magda Kuca/Ky Lewis/Liz Loveless/Douglas Nicolson and Paulene Morphett (DP)/Rikard Osterlund/Guy Paterson/Tina Rowe/Sayako Sugawara/Rachel Thomson/Eileen White



Navigator - 10 - 14 May 2023 Fitzrovia Gallery

Group Show - Navigator - Chapter 1: Methods of Documenting a Journey

Curated by Yi Dai & Gabriel Mansfield

Venue: Fitzrovia Gallery, 139 Whitfield Street, W1T 5EN
Dates: Open: 10-14 May 11am - 6pm

Private View: Friday 12 May 2023 6-8pm

I will be invigilating all day on Wednesday 10 May. Come and say hi!

Beyond Silver - 19th January - 06 Feb 2023, The Hive, Birmingham

I am very thrilled to be invited to take part in a group exhibition ‘Beyond Silver’ curated by London Alternative Photography Collective.

Venue: The Hive, 43-47 Vittoria St, Birmingham, B1 3PE.
Dates:19th January - 06 Feb 2023

Beyond Silver

Venue: The Hive, 43-47 Vittoria St, Birmingham, B1 3PE.
Dates:19th January - 06 Feb 2023.

Metals and minerals are of the earth - extracted, purified, dried, cut, mould, extruded, dissolved and filtered. Photographic images are of the earth, they are metals and minerals, polished, coated, sensitised, exposed, developed, washed, fixed, displayed. We rely on the sensitivity of these metals to depict the world around us, the earth that they come from. 

Silver has taken a leading role in this history - it is a history of colonisation, extraction, and depiction. From Louis Daguerre’s Daguerreotypes to Henry Fox Talbot’s calotypes in the early 1800s, to today's digital Chromogenic prints - silver is seen as unbeatable when it comes to making a quality, archivable photographic image. However, silver is not the only metal used for image making.

The London Alternative Photography Collective present “Beyond Silver”, an exhibition that explores the relationships between analogue photography and metallurgy. The exhibition will consider the use of silver in photography, as well as shining a light on many of the other metals that are used within photographic image production, in both historical and contemporary practice. In addition to silver, the exhibition will include works which utilise  lesser known metals in photography including iron, copper, tin, aluminium, platinum and palladium.

Exhibiting artists: Ignacio Acosta, Victoria Ahrens, William Arnold, Alex Boyd, Alice Cazenave, Caitriona Dunnett, Hannah Fletcher, Jo Gane, Kate Goodrich, Martha Gray, Charlotte Greenwood, Constanza Isaza, Ellisa Jane Diver, Soham Joshi, Melanie King, Liane Lang, Sara Mulvey, Andrés Pardo, Oliver Raymond-Barker, Megan Ringrose, Kris Skyla, Sayako Sugawara, Diego Valente, Eileen White

Public Programme:

Wednesday 18th 6 - 8pm = Private view
Thursday 19th 10am - 12pm = Electromagnetic field Cyanotype workshop with Martha Gray
Thursday 19th 12.30 - 1.30pm = Artist/curator led exhibition tour

This exhibition is supported by Canterbury Christ Church University, the Exeter Sustainability Institute, Falmouth University and the University of Birmingham.

Text: Hannah Fletcher