Futureproof 2023 Artist Talks
7pm Tuesday 12th December
Livestreamed on Facebook
To coincide with this year’s Futureproof at Harbour Arts Centre , Irvine, we are delighted to welcome several of the exhibitors to join us in short presentations on their work, themes and processes, touching upon issues of urban space, abandoned places, climate change, fragility, and community.
No Through Road by Alan Bell explores the semiotics of urban spaces and their effect upon our behaviour. Alan is a Scottish photographer working primarily with analogue film. He studied (BA Hons) Fine Art Photography at Glasgow School of Art and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig.
A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, Haneen Hadiy’s The Mother of The Motherland celebrates the culture of Iraq through a close engagement with the date palm and its symbolism in measuring climate change. Her painting and photography seeks to challenge misconceptions and dominant cultural narratives about Iraq.
Embryonic Journey by Karyn Priestley considers photography from an alternative perspective, taking the everyday, familiar object of an egg and exploring its fragile beauty. A graduate of City of Glasgow College, Karyn is passionate about finding new, innovative ways of making images and installation work.
Nikoline Sonasson’s Falljökull (The Falling Glacier) revolves around the environmental crisis we are in and how to make people more aware of it. A graduate of Glasgow School of Art, Sonasson’s analogue lens-based practice focuses on the landscape, what time and humans do to it, documenting the changes to understand it better.
Rhys Thomson is a documentary photographer based in South West Scotland. Growing up in a small council estate has influenced Rhys’ practice, and the importance of community and family is embedded into his work, including this work The Shop where he worked for several years.
Susan Allan’s Abandoned Places began with an idea: how to make places considered ‘ugly’ into beautiful images. Susan’s aim with this project was to bring these places to light, to show everyone those disappearing worlds which few know about or have ever seen. Susan graduated from Edinburgh College / Robert Gordon University.
Banner Image: © Alan BellLeft Image: © Nikoline Sonasson