Exhibitions, MAKE Southwest, Devon, 16th September – 4th November 2023
Responding to Light | EMERGENCE

Header image: © Charlie Waite – Towards the Rock of Gibraltar

A really clever idea here from MAKE Southwest, running two exhibitions parallel, one featuring established photographers, the other showing the work of newer photographers, looking at how craft and photography overlap. If you’re interested in seeing the contrast between the two, details from the press release are here…

‘Marine plastic debris, camera-less photographs of tidal waves, unique views of rockpools, communities of trees, and camera techniques dating back to the Victorian era are among works featuring in a major exhibition celebrating the diversity of modern photograph as a medium that straddles fine art and craft at MAKE Southwest, the gallery and crafts education charity formerly known as the Devon Guild of Craftsmen. Literally ‘drawing with light’, photography is an increasingly accessible artform: one that has been responsible for some of the most memorable images of the 20th and 21st centuries. Photography has ultimately changed the course of history through its ability to convey a concise and immediate message.

In Responding to Light, MAKE Southwest showcases seven leading photographers who exemplify the link between photography and craft in contemporary British photography. Together in one exhibition, their work reveals photography’s many guises and wide-ranging techniques, which span digital, analogue, and camera-less. The exhibition is curated by Susan Brown FRPS, and the exhibited artists are:
Marianthi Lainas
Susan Derges
Joe Cornish
Ray Spence
Valda Bailey
Mandy Barker
Charlie Waite

Left: © Susan Derges – Ocean Flowers, Right: © Ray Spence – Bird Skull

Running alongside the exhibition in the Riverside Gallery (open from 2nd Sept) is EMERGENCE, a group show of seven photographers at the start of their careers which shines a spotlight on emerging photography talent from across the Southwest. Those featured are:
Nick Cooney
Imogen Bastone
Jake Tebbutt
Olivia Eden
Louis Izard
Miles Critchley-Hope
Jake Varker

The two exhibitions deliver a celebration of photography throughout MAKE Southwest’s building’.

Exhibition Dates: 16th September–4th November 2023
MAKE Southwest, Riverside Mill, Bovey Tracey, Devon TQ13 9AF
You can find more details to help you plan your visit at makesouthwest.org.uk

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Published 12th September 2023