Indelible Impressions
Indelible Impressions presents work from Jemma Day, Ainoa Burgos, Lizzie Brewster with invited artists Mia Carey, Rob Macdonald and Richard Gaskill. Our photography combines traditional and challenging, innovative techniques, stretching notions of photographic practice. We utilise a range of alternative monochrome and colourful methods, including infrared film with a medium format camera to explore themes of mental health, perceptions and psychological realities. Our work extends to sculptural outcomes with cyanotypes on carpet and photograms, addressing themes of the environment and human consumption. Three-dimensional relief sculptural objects, representing perceptions of the ageing female body.
As artists and photography practitioners, we are committed to redefining how photography is experienced. Our installations challenge traditional photography exhibitions encouraging viewers to engage with artworks in new and thought-provoking ways by questioning photographic practice as an art form and how we perceive the world through it.
Jemma Day
Jemma's practice delves into the essence of the ageing female body through sculptural and print works that transcend traditional representations. Her aim is to provoke contemplation and spark dialogue around questions of identity by reconfiguring photographic materials in ways that go beyond mere representation. With a renewed attention to light sensitivity and the exploration of resemblance, my practice searches into the depths of the ageing female experience.
Photographic Lumen prints are translated into sculptural forms, creating tangible objects that evoke the physicality and presence of the body. By manipulating and recontextualizing photographic materials, she challenges the boundaries of traditional mediums, inviting viewers to question preconceived notions of identity.
Ainoa Burgos
Ainoa’s current work Plastic Era is an ongoing research based project exploring the relationship between humans, non-compostable rubbish, and the environment. This current exhibition showcases Optograms of Earth and Sea. This body of work consists of a series of Photograms and Cyanotypes produced with waste extracted from East and West Sussex landscapes through community focused litter picking sessions.
Plastic travels through space but also through time and light.
Lizzie Brewster
Lizzie's body of work, Branches of the Mind, explores emotional states of the mind through the landscape of the forest. The photographs shown in this series reflect the different realities and perspectives our minds construct while in these emotional states. Using infrared film the work captures infrared light from the red end of spectrum, a light not visible to the naked eye – this creates a contrasting reality to the one seen in front of the camera. Through the process of darkroom printing the images are intentionally situated upside down to further distort the perspective of the landscape
Mia Carey
This ongoing project is a personal exploration of grief, an attempt to visualise the multifaceted experience of loss. The process is both cathartic and reflective, confronting the bitterness of absence while grappling with the guilt and gratitude of surviving.
All images shot on film.
Rob Macdonald
Rob's approach to Street Photography takes as its subject the contemporary cityscape – its centre and its margins. His photographic practice explores the delicate balance between presence and absence in the detail of the urban environment and generally the images scrutinise visual tensions and divisions within dynamic and definite compositional relationships. This new body of work FACTOTUM is a departure from his usual approach in that people are a key part of each image. Imagery shot in locations including Rio de Janeiro, Kyoto, Cape Town and Singapore doesn’t concern itself with representing those cities individually but instead searches for what is resonant yet unseen within them. Rob is particularly intrigued by how disparate and fragmented, even arbitrary, visual details can form a larger coherent meaning, when brought together.
Rob's most recent exhibition was in the USA last year and this is his 9th Brighton Photo Fringe after exhibitions in 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016, 2014, 2012, 2010 and 2008 as well as exhibitions in London and work in the Royal Scottish Academy. Rob is a photographer and educator. He has a Masters in Photography from Edinburgh College of Art and lives and works in Brighton, England, UK.
What jobs might be indelible? Which careers cannot be erased? This series features images of work and the absence of work. As AI starts to transform the world of employment and beyond, its impact, good and bad, will not fall evenly on all.
Richard Gaskill
Public Park
Indelible Impressions: I explore the nuanced dialogue between permanence and ephemerality of a public park adjacent to my flat. The images capture the timeless essence of a familiar place, inviting viewers to contemplate the quiet narratives and fleeting moments. The park is a dynamic entity, shaped by both human presence and natural cycles. In my photographs, I strive to capture the park not just as a physical location but as a repository of collective memory and experience.
18 Tichborne Street
Brighton
BN1 1UR
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5–13 October
Saturday 11:00–17:00
Sunday 11:00–17:00