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APPARATUS

For the final exhibition of their 2024 programme, Strange Field are thrilled to announce Glasgow-based visual artist Morwenna Kearsley, who will exhibit APPARATUS through November.

APPARATUS

About APPARATUS

The final exhibition in Strange Field’s 2024 programme is by Glasgow-based visual artist Morwenna Kearsley, who will exhibit APPARATUS through November at French Street, plus on the streets of Glasgow. We’d love it if you had capacity to preview this or to come along and see the exhibition in situ.

Primarily using analogue materials, Kearsley’s work positions the three-dimensional world, the interior of the camera and the darkroom as interconnected, revelatory spaces where light is the fundamental, transformational force.

Informed by a research project Devilled Eggs, which focused on the industrial manufacture of albumen papers in the 19th century, APPARATUS centres around the tools and materials that make photography possible and the meaning we assign to our experiences through a system of signs and symbols.

For her first major-scale solo exhibition, Kearsley transforms Strange Field’s space, the old Dalmarnock print factory on French Street, into an immersive space with a new series of large-scale photographs. Leaning into the transformational, alchemical properties of analogue photography, retracing the lineage of the ‘surreal’ image, Kearsley circles back to her own experiences via the histories of the medium.

For Kearsley, photography is an augury and a barometer for contemporary anxieties. Her work, to borrow from Roland Barthes, is a “tissue of quotations” and often references a particular movement, moment or practitioner, using this to think through her experiences of the medium here and now.

APPARATUS will also take place across the city, where in partnership with Jack Arts, works from the project will populate sites across Glasgow, including their West Graham Street lightboxes. This relationship between photography within the public space, and the history of the billboard advertisement seen through a feminist lens is explored through these site specific works and mirrored in the large scale photographic work housed within French Street.

The exhibition is situated on the ground floor of French Street and runs Saturday 2nd until Sunday 24th November, open 12-5pm Wednesday to Sunday, with late openings til 7pm every Thursday.

There will be an opening reception on Saturday 2nd November from 6-9pm.

The venue is wheelchair accessible, however please note the bathrooms are not currently fully accessible for wheelchair users.

This project is made possible with support from The National Lottery via Creative Scotland and JACK ARTS Scotland, part of the BUILDHOLLYWOOD family.

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