APPARATUS - Morwenna Kearsley
For the final exhibition of our 2024 programme, we’re thrilled to announce Glasgow-based visual artist Morwenna Kearsley, who will exhibit APPARATUS through November.
Time & Location
03 Nov 2024, 12:00 – 17:00
Glasgow, Strange Field, 105 French St, Glasgow G40 4EH, UK
About the event
For the final exhibition of our 2024 programme, we’re 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.
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 the old Dalmarnock print factory 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…