BEYOND SILVER, The Hive Birmingham, 18 January - 10 February 2023
from left to right above
'Shards 1' solarplate etching, 30 x 25 cms on steel
'Shards 2' solarplate etching, 30 x 20 cms on steel
'Thames Foreshore' offset litho print on aluminium 45 x 45 cm
Eileen's works are a combination of solar plate etchings on steel and lithography on aluminium using UV light and ink. The images are washed up ‘finds’ and pinhole photographs from the Battersea foreshore of the Thames River in London. This river with its tidal ebbs and flows, holds its own stories. The physical objects, remnants of glass and pottery that emerge as the result of a chance encounter, connect us to both time and geography, local and global manufacturing as well as human stories. The slow and low-tech photographic and printing processes, reinstate the human and ways of making that relate to archiving and collecting, exploring themes such as loss, mourning, migration and the urban landscape, whilst encouraging a reconsideration of the act of looking itself.
About the Exhibition.
Metals and minerals are of the earth - extracted, purified, dried, cut, moulded, extruded, dissolved and filtered. Photographic images are of the earth, they are metals and minerals, polished, coated, sensitised, exposed, developed, washed, fixed, and 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 “Beyond Silver” is an exhibition that explores the relationships between analogue photography and metallurgy. The exhibition will consider the use of silver in photography, as well as shine 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, Elissa 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
from left to right above
'Shards 1' solarplate etching, 30 x 25 cms on steel
'Shards 2' solarplate etching, 30 x 20 cms on steel
'Thames Foreshore' offset litho print on aluminium 45 x 45 cm
Eileen's works are a combination of solar plate etchings on steel and lithography on aluminium using UV light and ink. The images are washed up ‘finds’ and pinhole photographs from the Battersea foreshore of the Thames River in London. This river with its tidal ebbs and flows, holds its own stories. The physical objects, remnants of glass and pottery that emerge as the result of a chance encounter, connect us to both time and geography, local and global manufacturing as well as human stories. The slow and low-tech photographic and printing processes, reinstate the human and ways of making that relate to archiving and collecting, exploring themes such as loss, mourning, migration and the urban landscape, whilst encouraging a reconsideration of the act of looking itself.
About the Exhibition.
Metals and minerals are of the earth - extracted, purified, dried, cut, moulded, extruded, dissolved and filtered. Photographic images are of the earth, they are metals and minerals, polished, coated, sensitised, exposed, developed, washed, fixed, and 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 “Beyond Silver” is an exhibition that explores the relationships between analogue photography and metallurgy. The exhibition will consider the use of silver in photography, as well as shine 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, Elissa 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