Veiled
Bill Brooks and Torz Dallison
Torz Dallison and Bill Brooks met in 2018, during the time they shared on the MA (Photography) programme at Brighton University. Since that time, Torz has opened a communal darkroom in Lewes, a facility which Bill has also used for hand-printing his silver gelatine photographs. Whilst the practices of the two artists differ, both share a quiet, contemplative style, as well as a love of traditional photographic processes.
Veiled brings together two of their latest projects reflecting on themes of access and concealment.
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Torz Dallison
Torz will be showing work from her ongoing project made in response to the family archive.
An enquiry into the commonality of the family album, Torz revisits her own archive of photographs and brings together images that echo those of past generations.
Reflecting on the role of photography in preserving memories and immortalising moments, Torz questions what we can learn from these images. In the exhibited pairings figures have their backs turned or are hazy - as hard as we try the past is unreachable and we can only see what the lens has captured, the rest is left for our imagination.
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Veiled
Bill Brooks
Bill’s photographs depict veiled statues in Arundel cathedral, taken during the latter part of the Lenten period. During this time, it is common practice within the Roman Catholic faith, for statues and other ornaments to be hidden from public view. Whilst these photographs are taken within a religious setting, the series doesn’t attempt to explore questions of theology. Instead, it seeks to raise simpler, but perhaps more fundamental questions about the act of concealment. Who decides what we are allowed to see? And why?
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71 High Street
Lewes
BN7 1XG
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5–26 October
Thursday 11:00–17:00
Friday 11:00–17:00
Saturday 11:00–17:00