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Morwenna Kearsley, Camera Body from the series APPARATUS, 2024
For the final exhibition of our 2024 programme, StrangeField are thrilled to announce Glasgow-based visual artist Morwenna Kearsley, who will exhibit APPARATUS through November. 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.
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 the old Dalmarnock print factory into an immersive space with a new series of 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.
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 drinks reception on Saturday 2nd November from 6-9pm.
2nd November 6-9pm
StrangeField
105-109 French Street, Glasgow G40 4JS, UK