LANDSCAPE TRAUMA AND ENVIRONMENT @ The Centre for British Photography

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LANDSCAPE TRAUMA AND ENVIRONMENT @ The Centre for British Photography

April 6th, 2023 by fstop

Landscape & the Environment – 6 exhibitions
8 June 2023 – 24 September 2023

Landscape Trauma
Featuring the work of Keith Arnatt, John Blakemore, Victor Burgin, John Davies, Willie Doherty, Melanie Friend, Fay Godwin, Paul Hart, Paul Hill, Roshini Kempadoo, Simon Norfolk, Ingrid Pollard, Mitra Tabrizian, and Jane and Louise Wilson.

Mandy Barker: Plastic Soup
“The work of award-winning photographer, Mandy Barker, is created to raise awareness of marine plastic pollution and has received global recognition. This is its first showing in London of Plastic Soup which was initially staged by the National Trust at Laycock Abbey. In this immersive exhibition Barker uses visual interpretation and scientific collaboration to inspire people into action in tackling this global environmental problem.”

John Blakemore: Seduced by Light
“John Blakemore: Seduced by Light will include landscapes that combine up to 48 exposures in an effort to capture the ever-changing light and wind over time in a single image. The display will also present a selection of John Blakemore’s unique hand-made artists books which suggest the possibility of a spiritual communion with nature through his poetic response to light.”

Jermaine Francis: A Storied Ground
“Francis uses multiple images to explore a black presence in nature. Francis uses these images to point out the codes in English pictorialism and landscape imagery, and to the flattening and uniformity these codes create. He plays with the seductiveness of the space, wanting to disrupt the beauty that is considered part of the landscape – making montages to physically disrupt that space for the viewer.”

Helen Sear: Composites
“Helen Sear: Composites – a series of large-scale works – emphasises the indivisibility of the human and the natural worlds. In giving equal status to the human and natural, Sear looks at the unnoticed. In the lightbox Caetera Fumus, a cornfield is pierced by arrows inspired by a painting of Saint Sebastian by Mantegna, and in the extraordinary multi-panel glasswork, Cold Frame, Sear presents an enormous greenhouse.”

Countryside / landscape / the environment
“A display of works by six photographers, chosen from an open call ending on 14 April, will be shown in the Centre’s windows and foyer spaces. All the work will have the landscape, British countryside or the environment as its focus. The open call is the start of the Centre’s promise to give a platform to photographers at all stages of their careers and will be a wonderful celebration of contemporary photography.”

The Centre for British Photography
49 Jermyn Street, London SW1Y 6LX
www.britishphotography.org

Location: England, London, United Kingdom Type: Exhibition

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