A selection of work from my Personal Practice –
MANIFESTATIONS OF SPIRIT
A range of work exploring the symbolic representation of self, creating psychological spaces between dreams and reality.
Silver gelatin print of burning wire figures from 35mm negative which are then chemigrammed with cycles of bleach, lith dev and b+ w dev.
ANGEL CAIDO – FALLEN ANGEL
Chemigrammed silver gelatin lith print
LIGHT SOURCE
Albumen print
Composite of 4 infrared negatives
2nd Pass Lith Development
A MILE IN THEIR SHOES
Albumen print
2nd Pass Lith Development
Bleached
TOUCHED BY THE SUN
Unique Albumen Silver Print
Large format infrared negative of Avebury stone circle contact, printed using the solstice sun 2019, onto double coated albumen silver paper, that was then gold toned.
REFRACTED LIGHT
Infrared negative, colour RA4 print
(Bleached, abraded)
SEA URCHIN
Wet Plate Collodion Tintype
GRANNY’S TAPESTRY
Wet plate collodion
EQUUS
Wet Plate collodion
HEARTH
Lith print from a cameraless image captured on infrared film by laying film on top of a hearth and capturing the reflected infrared light.
CONNECTION
RA4 Colour print from Victorian eye hospital microscope slide.
PASSION CIRCLES
RA4 Colour prints from Victorian eye hospital microscope slides.
MANIFESTATIONS OF SPIRIT
A range of work exploring the symbolic representation of self, creating psychological spaces between dreams and reality.
Double exposure of burning steel wool figure from 5 x 4 C-41 colour negative. 30 x 40 cm
Distressed RA4 colour prints.
Lith print from Wet Plate collodion on glass.
Wet Plate Collodion glass slide projection.
SMALL WORLDS
RA4 Colour and lith prints exploring the aesthetic beauty of discarded medical microscope slides.
PORTRAIT OF A CHILDS TOY
Wet Plate Collodion
MOTHER AND CHILD
Pinhole
35mm colour neg in home made pinhole camera
Overexposed printing on expired Fujicolor Crystal Archive colour paper which has a pink caste.
Soaked in household bleach with blue layer bleached back and selectively blushed away.
RA4 Colour Print
2018
CATCHING LIGHT
Catching light directly onto photo sensitive paper.
Lith Prints
RA4 Colour prints
Contact printed, bleached and distressed
SCRATCH
Double exposure of two scratched 35mm negs.
Lith Print
near WATER
Factory Press, 85 Clifden Road, London, E5 0LW
Private View:Thursday 18th January, 7-9pm
Open: Sat/Sun 12-4:30pm, Jan/Feb 2018
An exhibition of analogue photography and alternative photographic process by E5 Process Collective.
This exhibition at Factory Press (http://www.factorypress.co.uk), showcases the work being produced by artists at E5 Process darkroom. A range of silver gelatin, colour and alternative processes, all inspired by, near, or connected to water.
GRANNY’S NEG
Before my granny passed away she gave me an old roll of colour film from her sideboard drawer to see if I could get it developed. It had expired in the 1970’s and was meant to be developed in an obsolete development process (C-22). I returned to the film after my granny had passed away and after some research attempted to develop it in black and white developer. It was a slightly involved process as it needed to be developed and bleached back before fixing. Guessing the timings I chopped the film into sections. One strip showed an image of some people outside a house but this disappeared in the fixing process. Only one strip contained an image after final wash.
Lith print from C-22 35mm colour neg.
DOCUMENTATION
Documentation of sculpture by artist Robert Worley
Lith + Wet Plate Collodion
SATELLITES
“Something that is separated from or on the periphery of something else but is nevertheless connected too, dependent on or controlled by it.”
KEEPSAKES
“The sensuous, sinuous intertwining of things with memories … “ (Edmund de Waal, The Hare with Amber Eyes)
The History of the first known pieces of memoriam keepsakes can be dated back to the beginning of humankind. Everything from skin, nails, hair, tears or even droplets of blood behind a plate of glass have been used as keepsakes. Over time, these memorial keepsakes have evolved from death mask casts, taking photographs of the deceased to keeping objects that belonged to them.
Lith Prints, 2017
– An oyster and pearl my grandfather found while diving in Japan, contained in a glass dome.
– A music box from the home of my grandmother. She loved neon and plastic things!
– A bowl and cup from the home of my step-grandparents. Highland crofters with strong connections to the land.
SONIC VIGIL: Breathing Space and e5process Collective. 2017
Gather in the Tower,
As I collapse into silver
A 12 hour Breathing Space durational performance at Augustine’s Tower, Narrow Way, Hackney, April 2017, where E5 Process Collective collaborated to produce a body of work in response to Breathing Space’s practice and the tower itself.
TRANSFORMATION
Bleached wet plate enlargement produced under enlarger from 35mm negative.
OBSOLETE AND DISCONTINUED
“Transformation”
Lith print from collodion glass plate.
A project that began after Mike Crawford was given a large batch of out of date photography paper. He generously gave some of it to over 50 artists.
Some more info on project here
The work was shown at-
Revela T, Barcelona, Spain.
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Schaelpic Photokunstbar, Cologne, Germany.
SURFACE AND LIGHT
An exhibition by E5 Process Collective
Archive Gallery, London.
SKIN MASK
Handmade mask, made out of pig skin by Andre McClane.
Lith print from a glass wet plate negative
MAKING SENSE OF THE LOOSE ENDS
Cyanotype
Utilising all the bits of rope, twine, string, barbed wire and netting I found on a beach walk.
Lith print on Ilford warmtone from a wet plate (whole plate). 40cm lens f4.1 mounted on 10 x 8 MPP, 3 seconds
An INTERVIEW for the London Alternative Photography Collective Pinhole Photography Exhibition at Doomed Gallery
- Pinhole – Indian Ocean, Mocambique.
LIGHT LEAK
Lith print from a light leaked negative.
WET PLATE
The Wet Plate collodion process is an early photographic process which involves the use of a glass or metal plate sensitised by placing it in a bath of Silver Nitrate and then exposing the plate while it is still wet.
Glass plates can be used to make enlargements. The prints on paper have been lith developed.
CYANOTYPE PRINTING
The cyanotype photographic process results in permanent photographic images in an elegant assortment of blue values.
The English scientist and astronomer Sir John Herschel discovered the process in 1842, a mere three years after the ”official” announcement of the discovery of photography. Herschel is the same gentleman who coined the words “positive and negative”, “photograph” and “snapshot”.
One of the first people to put the cyanotype process to use was Anna Atkins (1799-1871), who in October 1843 became the first person to produce a photographically illustrated book using cyanotypes.
The process was also used extensively for copying architectural plans until it was made obsolete by photocopying and computer printers. This is where we get the phrase ”Blueprint” from.
The final size of the image is dictated by the size of the negative. A print is produced by contact printing directly from an object or photographic negative.
Watercolour paper is impregnated with 2 coats of an iron based solution. Once dry the negative is placed on top and exposed to the sun or an ultraviolet light . The iron reacts and turns the paper a rich blue color. Washing the print in water fixes the image and makes it permanent.
The extent of color change is dependent on the ratios of the different chemicals used and amount of UV light passing through the object or negative. This results in every image being a unique print.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE LAKE OF DREAMS
KULUNGWANA gallery, Maputo, Mozambique. 9 – 24 June, 2011.
The work shown in “Fragments from the Lake of Dreams” was produced in ongoing experiments with pinhole and alternative photography techniques. Work shown included a selection of personal colour pinhole photographs and black and white pinhole images from workshops as part of KULUNGWANA outreach program with Escola Primária Completa 25 de Junho.
During the opening night, alongside performances by dancers/musicians/circus performers, there was a workshop where guests were invited to make a photogram of their hands and share a dream. The “Dream Hands” were left in situ as part of the exhibition.
Link to gallery from opening night
Documentation of participatory event at exhibition opening.
Installed as part of show.
IDEAL ABOVE
PHOTO OPPORTUNITY
FACSIMILE
CYCLES
Documentation of the nightly migration of Long-tailed Fruit Bat, Notopteris macdonaldi in Fiji.
Exhibited in the Fiji Art Council Annual Exhibition, Suva, Viti Levu.
TABLES
A selection of images from a six month sharing of a visual diary of the tables two artists sat at. One Scottish one Romanian.
Link to a tables book
FROM THE SKY
TRAVEL
TRACES
A selection of images from a project documenting the traces we leave behind everyday.
Link to traces book
WHISPER
Video still of self-projection back into video projection.
3 minutes 45 seconds
2000
- Whisper
UNTITLED
Stills from video of self-projection back into slide-show of slides from childhood.
3 minutes 20 seconds
2000
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