2016

There is a clear and thoughtful link between our contemporary joys, freedoms, play and the social change of the great Wars from which it was borne.
Rituals or rites of passage surface, in the gently rendered graffiti of a post-war park, or the places of first kisses.
This exhibition offers a delicate dream like quality of deeply impressed images that are personal and reflective of a wider artistic and cultural history.
Notions of play and creative re-generation are mediated on through war archive images of the Artist Rifles, documented by a photographer from their own ranks.

Individual pieces stand alone, or work as a whole. Absence, popular imagery, wooded scenes or edges park landscapes mix, with delicate even painterly — rendered graffiti. These are careful observations of how memory and nostalgia impress on a person and the wider culture. Amongst the photos is that of a relative who served WWI. The materiality of the photographic image is dwelt on and subtly contrasts with the more recent photographic source material. The show has a dream like quality evoking an intriguingly pregnant potentially.

PEER gallery – Hoxton Lane