Exhibition Open: 12th January 2023 - 19th January 2023, 10am - 4pm
Opening Party: 12 January 2023, 6-8pm. 35mm exhibition opening photos by Katrina Stamatopoulos, digital photos by The Margate Mercury.
Artists:
Tina Rowe
Laura Copsey
Pawel Kula
Priysha Rajvanshi
Katrina Stamatopoulos
Anthony Carr
Sapphire Goss
Zara Carpenter
Natalie Keymist
Dominic Rose
Jenny Duff
Michelle Grant
Charlotte Padgham
Esme Morris
Rachel Rimell
Clementine Blue & Joseph Ball
Isaac Alfred
Grace Warne
Jo de Banzie
Rosalba Breazeale
Becky Korn & Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe
Nicole Burnay
David Babaian
Sebastian Edge
The London Alternative Photography Collective and Thanet Alternative Photography Collective presents Transmutation, an exhibition of works produced using experimental, analogue and alternative photographic processes. An alchemical underpinning of transformation, creation, or combination is central to the show while simultaneously fusing a range of disciplines, including sound, sculpture, technology and performance. Positioning analogue photographic practice as a physical three-dimensional agent.
This transdisciplinary exhibition proposes photography as a dynamic, light sensitive, explorative medium for navigating our world. Photography which is made to remember and to forget. It has incredible dualistic qualities that can ask us to look in another way, look again, or to even look away. As a physical translation of optics, photography’s relationship to being two dimensional can be framed by the materiality of paper, and by the digital nature of screens. It will always be dualistic. Angular lines and rectangular formats typically harness photographic perceptions, and the networked image continuously repositions photography, in displacing it through time and space.
It is important to free ideologies of what makes a photograph, and to relax into the potential materiality of what being light sensitive can be. (Text: Diego Valente)
Information about The Margate School (TMS) Gallery and Events Space
The Margate School (TMS) Gallery and Events Space is part of TMS, an independent and international post-graduate liberal arts school based in the heart of Margate at the lower end of the high street. It is on the ground floor, and accessible to the public with wheelchair access.
It features a large gallery/cafe area and a grand piano, an auditorium with cinema seats and audio visual facilities. There is also a workshop area with tables and chairs. The Gallery and Events space is facing the high street, with large windows. Also located on the ground floor are our hirable darkrooms, and a kiln which can be used by the public on enquiry with our technician together with studio spaces.
Information about the London Alternative Photography Collective
The London Alternative Photography Collective provides regular artist talks on the subject of analogue & alternative photography processes used in contemporary art. The collective supports practitioners who challenge traditional ways of printing images to reflect on contemporary issues. The London Alternative Photography collective is also a platform for exchange of knowledge and skills, as well as creative ideas and exhibition concepts. We regularly curate exhibitions and run affordable/free workshops and demonstrations and organise symposiums in London.
Organised by:
Melanie King (TAPC, LAPC)
Dominic Rose (The Margate School)
Hannah Fletcher, Diego Valente, Katrina Stamatopoulos (LAPC)
Emily Rose Parris (TAPC)
Artists chosen via an open call on Curatorspace.