This exhibition features new photography by Fergus Heron depicting the immediate vicinity of Phoenix Art Space. As with all Heron's work to date, the project involves sustained attention to places close to where he lives and works, using a view camera with colour film to make detailed and structured photographs, printed by hand in the colour darkroom to a consistent format.

The work exhibited develops earlier projects picturing urban environments, including photographs showing and returning the view from the window of his studio situated in the Phoenix Art Space building. The project is partly inspired by the art historian Nikolaus Pevsner's perambulation into Phoenix Place described in The Buildings of England: Sussex East with Brighton and Hove. In connection, a dialogue is created between different observations. The process of making these pictures acknowledges a sense of place made up of composite views; those recalled from the past in writing are layered with those seen in the present with photography.

Fergus Heron was born in London and currently lives and works in Brighton, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art and the University for the Creative Arts. Exhibitions featuring his work have taken place internationally at venues including Tate Britain and Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World.

He selected The Photographers’ Gallery: Photography Culture on Landscape and edited Visible Economies by Photoworks. His writing is also published in Emerging Landscapes and a Companion to Photography. He is Course Leader for MA Photography and a research supervisor in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton.