Raft
Link to the full video work on Vimeo here.
This performance and installation was developed for my exhibition Liquid Silver at Compton Verney that ran from October 2023 - February 2024.
This artwork explores the sensory, liquid process of photography in the landscape at Compton Verney. It was developed following work making photographs with historical processes in the landscape on Capability Brown designed locations in the West Midlands. Inspired by the work of George Shaw (1818-1904) and his contemporaries who painted and photographed in the Capability Brown designed landscape at Packington Park.
Birmingham and Sheffield painter James Poole (1803 – 1886) was one of this school of landscape painters who was photographed by George Shaw in the 1840s. He painted landscapes which included water at night and was drawn to the sensory experience of standing in water as a fly-fisherman.
Filming, editing and sound by Duncan Whitley.
With thanks to Shiam Wilcox and Helen Wheatley.