Gallery Lock In, 2024
Mixology brings together the work of James Critchlow, Tom O’Neill, Siôn Rees and Ed Wrigglesworth. Rejecting convention, the four artists engage with a loose definition of photography. Spanning from sculpture to alternative analogue processes, they explore the photographic image as a malleable ingredient. Through multiple forms of manipulation, the photograph begins to form part of a greater whole; it is deconstructed, reimagined, chopped-up, embellished, destroyed and put back together again. Work is done to the photograph both digitally and physically, as each intervention gives way to a gradual shift in meaning. In all cases, what was once the photograph is transformed into a new object.
A Study of Analogues - James Critchlow
A Blend of Cars, Plants and the International Space Station - James Critchlow
(Left) A Blend of Cars, Plants and the International Space Station - James Critchlow , (Right) Channel-4868246 - Tom O'Neill
(Left) Channel-4868246 - Tom O'Neill, (Centre) Composition Three - Sion Rees, (Right) Flowers In Flowers - Ed Wrigglesworth
Pixel Forest - James Critchlow
(Left) Pixel Forest - James Critchlow, (Centre) Channel-8953 - Tom O'Neill, (Right) Composition One - Sion Rees
Flowers In Flowers - Ed Wrigglesworth