Belinda Spinney

Diane Bielik

Colin Coutts

Dave Williams

Saule Zukaityte

Pavel Dornak

Andy Robertson

Josephine Callaghan

Andrea Muendelein

Julia Defferary

Blerim Racaj

Ingrid Berthon-Moine

Svetozar Ivanov

Susannah King

Sophie Mitchell

Gallery Images

Private View 14th October

Svetozar Ivanov

Dreams And Fears

This project deals with every little boy's desire to follow in the footsteps of his father, and how this dream might affect the boy's future development.

It explores the circulation of the dream in the vicious cycle of the family, and how it affects family members and close friends.

This project has been influenced by a real event. The photographer's intention is to invite contemplation on the nature of our families and the lessons learned by those who came before us.

The dream of a child is the fear of an adult.

Andrea Mündelein

I am showing excerpts of 2 series of early imagery, taken on travels in Germany and Turkey. Being in transition between countries for several years, these took damage from storage due to air humidity. Image frames kept the transparencies intact, yet surfaces and colours deteriorated in abstract, psychedelic patterns and tones. As memories of recollected travels, some of them faded, some surfaced, some went to blank.

Andy Robertson

This long running personal project records events, people and locations. To put it simply it is a project about joy. This personal history could take shape using no other form other than that of the pin hole camera, because by it's very nature it is intimate and unpredictably surprising. The images from this project are never displayed chronologically, sometimes they are chosen at random or purposefully dug out when a memory resurfaces.

Diane Bielik

Family Slips

This new work is part of an on going project with the principle concern being the currency of the memento. Personal and found objects that are often imbued with sentimental significance form the basis of this exploration into the fetish. Many of the objects that I work with have been discarded and their original narratives lost. These particular images are collages trapped in resin and come from a family album that I came across in a charity shop.

http://www.dianebielik.co.uk/

Grant Petrey

This work by Grant Petrey is part of an ongoing project that captures the spaces of urbanism. It explores the cycles of regeneration and decline and the construction of the myth that is the promise of renewal through regeneration and also it's consequences.

Belinda Spinney

The Egg Collector

This body of work is a set of six colour framed prints - three prints of hand-tinted magic lantern glass slides and three prints of a female.

Inspired by the work of French female philosopher Luce Irigaray, critically her terms mimesis and mimicry. The work aims to explore the concept of the female body mimicking that which it may or may not have experienced, juxtaposed with the three slide prints of birds’ nests, connecting historically to the predominantly male hobby of egg collecting.

As proposed by Irigaray, historically the female is always associated with the role of mother; whether a woman is a mother or not, the female identity is always defined by that role.

Saule Zukaityte

Isthmus of Childhood Statement

The project "Isthmus of childhood" is based on my memories from childhood.The Childhood as a subject arise different opinions among psychologists and psychotherapists. A Psychologist Thomas S.Szasz defines childhood as “a prison sentence of twenty-one year”. Relatively, Oliver James in his works states that the experience dealt in childhood with a great percentage shapes the attitude of adult individual.My main idea of this project was to present a visualised analysis of my early childhood experience.The installation in my work reflects my feelings from that period of my early life.
The meaning of Isthmus in mythology also means the piece of non existing land which connects two worlds – my childhood and now.
For me, it means the world which I lived behind my real live with my family – something what brought me to illusion and non existing space.
The images were taken by searching for the places which would resemble to those from my childhood.
In fact, there is not accessible any similar environment because of the geographical reasons as I grew up in the North Europe and London has very limited forest space.
Though, I employed my imagination to bring the experience of my childhood by participating in the available space.
The idea of the industrial noise next to the photographs represents a conflict between the nature and industry.

Blerim Racaj

The Kosovars

Being personally linked to Kosovo my intention is to record a period of transition in newest country of Europe, preserving frames of a new course in Kosovan history by portraying people who live there.
Through my work I am interested to provide a place of observation for the viewer concerning cultural identity and social status of people who live there by photographing them at their common environment.
In addition to portraits I use landscapes as documentation of the space these people inhabit and scenes they are surrounded with at this particular time by guessing it will change in the years to come.

www.blerimracaj.info

Susannah King

Susannah King’s practice sits between the boundaries of photography and drawing, between representations of surface and image. King uses images from real locations to produce a disrupted account of their reality – moving the actual into the realm of the imaginary and back again. Metaphor contributes to the definition of the parameters of her image-making processes, through which she creates an alternative form of vision making; a reverse romantic pastorale.

Pavel Dornak

Pavel Dornak

Domestic Fairytales

This series of images represents the challenge of the visual representation of the written word. The reading of a proverb or saying creates an immediate image within the minds eye. Therefore, the written word on the page is something I wanted to reproduce in the physicality of the image on paper. The use of film as the medium as opposed to digital creates authenticity.
The exploration of humour and wit contained within these proverbs transcends cultural interpretations, and is, I feel, the very reason they do. It is this that I saw as the challenge in their visual representation. I wanted to take proverbs that I have come across relevant to my own cultural experience, thus relevant to me and to recreate that within the image.
All three proverbs have a connection in that they carry a psychological relevance in present day culture, the fear of mice invading the domestic setting, the taboo of wetting the bed and the fear of being “nailed” down for standing out from the crowd.
Proverbs have become incorporated into everyday language, diluted almost. For example, within the English language the term “you are gonna get nailed for that” inferring you have done something which you are going to get in trouble for or have been “caught out” is a common saying in colloquial language. It is this dilution and how it is applied in everyday language that keeps proverbs alive in some ways. Proverbs can also have several meanings, both to the individual and different cultures; the challenge was to recreate immediacy in my images.