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A podcast and a group show

I was really chuffed to be asked by Nat Lyon recently to speak about my pinhole photographs for Experimental Trash. I have been a big fan of his show and his music for a few years now.. Experimental Trash is a radio program produced for CAMP (an artist residency in the French Pyrenees), podcast and blog, that focuses on the creative processes of artists, writers, and musicians. It always has a beautiful lo-fi vibe, and I really love the way he presents his interviews, removing his own voice and letting the answers just hang there, disjointed. We talked about photography, time, sounds in the woods, sense of place, cameras, my ill-thought out purchase of a theremin.. and all the sounds throughout this episode are derived from fragments of the conversation and field recordings I sent that Nat has looped and modified and embellished, including my ums and maybes and two notes I played on the concertina that he has added bass and piano to in a kind of duet.

The show went out on CAMP Radio last Wednesday (27.11.24) and the field notes and replay for the show are now up on the Experimental Trash blog (Episode 55)

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In other news, I’m really pleased to have this piece in the Winter Show at Orleans House Gallery alongside 48 other local artists. This was one of the first pinhole photographs I took earlier this year, and the one that sparked the idea for the residency project.

“Motion Picture” - pinhole photograph silver print, unique 1 of 1 on fibre-based paper with caption that reads “Listening to ‘No Motion Picture’ for 15 minutes, 11.04.24”

The show runs 30 November 2024 – 2 February 2025, 10am-5pm, Free - Orleans House Gallery, Orleans Road, Twickenham, TW1 3BL

Artists Make Space residency

I’m really happy to be one of the selected artists for the Artists Make Space residency at Orleans House Gallery in Twickenham. I will be working out in the woods in the gallery grounds over the summer using my pinhole camera to record my experience of time spent alone in nature. I may or may not be posting updates over on my instagram, and I will write about the project once it is done and I know more about it.

Two group shows for winter

I will have work in two group shows in December…

Portal I is showing at Orleans House Gallery winter show running from 2 December 2023 until the 28 January 2024

And we are having an open studio christmas exhibition at Kew Art Studio, where I will be showing one of the stone prints from Exiled Souls, along with a new cyanotype piece and one of my polaroid emulsion lifts, 1st – 3rd December

Opening night for both is on Friday 1st December.

Dreams of Exiled Souls

Our group exhibition The Dreams of Exiled Souls opened this weekend. I was busy having too good a time and took disappointingly few photos.. so I also forgot to get any of me with my work but there is this one that Clare Archibald took where I’m considering the correct arrangement of things during the installation.

The private view on Friday went very nicely despite the incessant rain and it was so good to meet everyone. Many thanks to David at Chroma Editions for bringing together such a beautiful show and for inviting me to be part of it along with some really excellent people.

Links to the online places of the other artists..

Clare Archibald
Richard Baker
David Banning
Julian Hyde
Neil Jackson
Joanna Pocock
Iain Sharpe
Louise Smith
Isabella Streffen

The show runs until 4th November. If you’re in Kendal please go along and see it at Cross Lane Projects, Cross Lane, Kendal, LA9 5LB

Poster artwork and design by David Banning of Chroma Editions