Illuminations

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.  The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time.  On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops.  Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.  I am haunted by waters.  

Norman Maclean, “A River Runs Through It”

Illuminations was an exhibition of photography and mixed media work inspired by the coastal margins of England’s East Coast, particularly the landscape of Bradwell on Sea. Traces of medieval, Saxon and earlier human activity emerge from the mud at low tide and are re-submerged at every high tide. Change, ambiguity, the idea of things being alternately buried, revealed and then concealed again were some of the ideas explored.

The exhibition took place at Fenners Gallery in Letchworth in April 2019. The work evolved and changed as Sally Tyrie and I worked in the space. Illuminations represented a stage in the development of our collaboration rather than an end point. It was an opportunity to test ideas and explore.

I have always used photography as a means of documenting and developing ideas and used this exhibition to bring some of those images to the foreground of my work.

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