First Light Spotlight: After Nature
In recent years, scientists have proven plankton’s ability to digest the smallest of ocean plastics, known as microplastics. What impact is this having on the complex ecological systems that we live in? On our health or even genetic structure? In this First Light Spotlight, BA Photography graduate (Blackpool and the Fylde) Sam Wallis discusses how his mixed-media photography series ‘Questionable Inedible’ acknowledges these concerns, in a panel hosted by arts writer and First Light editor Laura Robertson. Joined by special guests from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), John Aitken, who is MA & BA Course Leader in Photography and Sam’s MA tutor, plus BA Fine Art graduate and current MA student, Robin Fanner, who reads a new text in response to Sam’s work.
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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.
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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
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Image credit © Sam Wallis
In recent years, scientists have proven plankton’s ability to digest the smallest of ocean plastics, known as microplastics. What impact is this having on the complex ecological systems that we live in? On our health or even genetic structure? In this First Light Spotlight, BA Photography graduate (Blackpool and the Fylde) Sam Wallis discusses how his mixed-media photography series ‘Questionable Inedible’ acknowledges these concerns, in a panel hosted by arts writer and First Light editor Laura Robertson. Joined by special guests from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), John Aitken, who is MA & BA Course Leader in Photography and Sam’s MA tutor, plus BA Fine Art graduate and current MA student, Robin Fanner, who reads a new text in response to Sam’s work.
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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.
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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
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Image credit © Sam Wallis