FREQUENCIES
An exhibition by recent Plymouth University photography masters graduates
Private View: Monday 24th June 2019 (6pm - 8pm)
Exhibition runs: Tuesday 25th – Sunday 30th June 2019, Open daily: 10am - 6pm
Cheryl Davies - The Lunar Nodes
The Lunar Nodes series engages geometry and light to explore ideas of human biography. Combining traditional photographic materials and sculpture, the series studies geometrical forms born out of a 72 pointed circle. The number 72 represents many things cosmic and human. It takes 72 years for the celestial sky to shift 1⁰, from our earthly perspective. In theosophical literature it is regarded as the span of the human life as determined by the cosmos. Each unique photogram has undergone a biographical process of its own and represents labour and the passing of biographical time.
@cheryl.davies7
Jo Dorothea-Smith - Mysteries
Her photographic creations are thematically interrelated physical items for projection and memory. Working with differing photographic and print techniques she investigates the dynamics of the land, her bodily relation to it and memories either evoked or created. She ponders a link between the landscape’s physical reality and that of its conceiver and focuses on concrete questions that determine our existence. By contesting the division between the realms of memory and experience, she creates intense personal moments luring the viewer round in circles.
@joannedorothea
Susan Glover - A perfect alibi
A Perfect Alibi explores ideas and ideals of landscape, cartography and territory, evoking the memories and myths often found in a historical belief of place. These camera-less images use abrasion to create a surface relief in photosensitive paper and are developed in the darkroom. Each image contains the trace of the object(s) and gesture that created it, but become topographical abstractions questioning notions of place, region, and mapmaking.
@susanglover.3am
Ian Harris - Dismantled
In many parts of the Somerset landscape which once carried railway lines, nothing visibly obvious appears to remain at first glance. Yet these empty spaces – sometimes an in-filled cutting across a field or just a route curving through a rural wood or meadow – resonate with the former railways’ palpable absence. DISMANTLED looks at how the landscape remembers what has gone before. It also explores notions of loss and absence, and the choices we make as a society.
@ianharris1960
Claire Masters - Slippage
Claire’s delicate, yet solid, photographs of offshore rock formations suggest both endurance and precariousness. The immense and sublime stacks stand resolute against, and at the same time vulnerable to the process of erosion and the passing of time, suggesting immense forces at play. Thus they act as a metaphor for all change, whilst the size of the prints, ambiguously scaled, enhances the viewer’s immersion into a dialogue about an ever-changing world.
@claire.masters25
Nigel Maynard - Formshire
I seek an experience that the everyday world can not provide, in which images are left alone to be forms, at least for a while; hence, the title of this series of abstractions, Formshire. That is, a land of forms, free from the potential oppression of words. Of course, words will come, naturally. However, if they are mine, they may have tendencies to reduce the land in which the imagination can roam, for in my experience words can create boundaries and fences, shrinking the wilderness of pure form.
Jane Prior - Between
My work explores identity, the self, the notion of childhood and boundaries. Being a mother is fundamental to my photographic practice, it is a way of exploring relationships and addressing fears. I am concerned with dependence on technologies, our culturally created facades and how these affect the many transitions of childhood.
@janeprior76
Nic Sullivan - Jezebel
Jezebel is the retracing of a journey. A love story of place. At a time when we can investigate our DNA profile, it is feasible to understand we all have identities beyond our Britishness. Jezebel asks questions of how we perceive the places we base ourselves in and the nature of the interactions we have with an environment and with one another. Asking, if we are too self-obsessed to be fully open and immersed to a global universe and the diversity it has to offer.
@nicsullivanphoto
Sue Taylor-Money - All the light that is lost
My photographic practice is an exploration of the process of ageing and all that comes with the passing years. Taking my husband as the subject I have explored themes of illness and recovery, of loneliness and sometimes despair. But crucially within this journey also comes not only the wish to capture an indomitable strength of spirit but to respond to the wider mystery of the spiritual. This is sensed and explored both through what might be called the great blue of the beyond, and in our very human longing for a healing immersion within these realms.
Liz-Ann Vincent-Merry - I dreamt of afternoons in the forest
I am a photographer based in Plymouth, Devon, England, working with analogue photography, both found and my own images. Human stories and the feelings associated with belonging and home are at the heart of my practice. A desire to be at home, to belong, to find my place in a divided society, and the chaotic and unravelling world we live in motivates most of my work.