First Light Spotlight: Interior Tension
The recent experience of lockdown severely restricted our horizons to within our immediate domestic surroundings. Like much of the population, Kayleigh Cleminson, who was then studying for her final year on the Photography BA at Hugh Baird College, had to drastically adapt her plans to the new limitations in which she found herself. The resulting cinematic portraits and studies of silent spaces, speaks to our common experience of lockdown; of internalised tension and of lives caught in a state of suspense.
Hosting this talk will be First Light curator and photographer Mario Popham, who will be joined by Kayleigh and her tutor David Lockwood (Hugh Baird College).
Image: Kayleigh Cleminson
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Open Rooms involves free live-streamed talks and workshops, plus ongoing public discussions on our Discord community. It takes place in rooms all across the world — artists’ rooms, chat rooms and in your living room.
We also have a community of chat rooms and ongoing conversations on Discord, a free messaging app open to all. To join, follow this link and download Discord on desktop or mobile: https://discord.gg/wNKSQP2
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Open Rooms, Open Eye Gallery’s digital events program, will be hosting a season of talks in partnership with Waterside as we approach the launch of the exhibition, First Light – New Northern Photo Graduates in the spring/summer 2021.
The exhibition, devised by Waterside’s Mario Popham, brings together works by 13 photographers who have graduated from the region’s educational institutions in 2020. Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence, Laura Robertson will be producing a special First Light edition of Tilt (Open Eye Gallery’s in-house zine) featuring 13 commissioned pieces of new writing that responds to the selected photographic works.
This season of talks, chaired by Laura and Mario, will bring together the photographers, writers and educators who are central to this project. Together they will discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the images, the potential for collaboration across disciplines, the relationship between the image and the word and the role educators play in the early development of artistic practice.
Image: Kayleigh Cleminson
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Open Rooms involves free live-streamed talks and workshops, plus ongoing public discussions on our Discord community. It takes place in rooms all across the world — artists’ rooms, chat rooms and in your living room.
Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be emailed to all attendees.
We also have a community of chat rooms and ongoing conversations on Discord, a free messaging app open to all. To join, follow this link and download Discord on desktop or mobile: https://discord.gg/wNKSQP2
The recent experience of lockdown severely restricted our horizons to within our immediate domestic surroundings. Like much of the population, Kayleigh Cleminson, who was then studying for her final year on the Photography BA at Hugh Baird College, had to drastically adapt her plans to the new limitations in which she found herself. The resulting cinematic portraits and studies of silent spaces, speaks to our common experience of lockdown; of internalised tension and of lives caught in a state of suspense.
Hosting this talk will be First Light curator and photographer Mario Popham, who will be joined by Kayleigh and her tutor David Lockwood (Hugh Baird College).
Image: Kayleigh Cleminson
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Open Rooms involves free live-streamed talks and workshops, plus ongoing public discussions on our Discord community. It takes place in rooms all across the world — artists’ rooms, chat rooms and in your living room.
We also have a community of chat rooms and ongoing conversations on Discord, a free messaging app open to all. To join, follow this link and download Discord on desktop or mobile: https://discord.gg/wNKSQP2
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Open Rooms, Open Eye Gallery’s digital events program, will be hosting a season of talks in partnership with Waterside as we approach the launch of the exhibition, First Light – New Northern Photo Graduates in the spring/summer 2021.
The exhibition, devised by Waterside’s Mario Popham, brings together works by 13 photographers who have graduated from the region’s educational institutions in 2020. Open Eye Gallery’s writer in residence, Laura Robertson will be producing a special First Light edition of Tilt (Open Eye Gallery’s in-house zine) featuring 13 commissioned pieces of new writing that responds to the selected photographic works.
This season of talks, chaired by Laura and Mario, will bring together the photographers, writers and educators who are central to this project. Together they will discuss the ideas and inspiration behind the images, the potential for collaboration across disciplines, the relationship between the image and the word and the role educators play in the early development of artistic practice.
Image: Kayleigh Cleminson
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Open Rooms involves free live-streamed talks and workshops, plus ongoing public discussions on our Discord community. It takes place in rooms all across the world — artists’ rooms, chat rooms and in your living room.
Please note, this event will be hosted on Zoom, the link will be emailed to all attendees.
We also have a community of chat rooms and ongoing conversations on Discord, a free messaging app open to all. To join, follow this link and download Discord on desktop or mobile: https://discord.gg/wNKSQP2
