Hotshoe Gallery: 12 August – 30 August

Private View: Thursday 11 August

Contributing Artists:

Natasha Caruana

Zoe Childerley

Ellie Davies

Karen Grainger

Dean Hollowood

Judith Lyons

Wendy Pye

Melanie Stidolph

Sacha Lehrfreund

Curated by Miranda Gavin & Sacha Lehrfreund

Hotshoe Gallery are proud to present the first group show of Tri-pod,  Nine-Point Perspective: Ways of Seeing showcasing the work of nine selected visual artists and photographers working on personal photographic and lens-based projects. This exhibition was conceived by deputy and online editor of Hotshoe magazine Miranda Gavin with Tri-pod co-founder and photographer Wendy Pye and is the culmination of work developed as part of Tri-pod’s first research and development group held at Hotshoe Gallery from 2010-11.

In her new series Fairytale for Sale Natasha Caruana befriends brides posting their wedding dresses for sale online to request high-resolution images in which newly-weds mask out their faces while Zoe Childerley’s collaborative portraits from the project Being Human are based on mythical characters from folklore and stories chosen by, and relevant to, each sitter.

Ellie Davies shows a selection of images from three of her landscape series Islands; Come With Me; and Knit One, Pearl One, all of which explore her relationship to the landscape; its role in defining personal identity, and the notion that all perceptions of nature are in some way mediated by culture.

Karen Grainger’s work Julia’s Ghosts is inspired by the 19th-century photographer Julia Margaret Cameron and explores contemporary identity through portraits of young women wearing hooded tops using the wet-plate collodion process.

Dean Hollowood’s experimental hand-printed photographs depicting china and porcelain animals, Chase, is a playful celebration of the darkroom process using colour, tone and the layering of photographic paper, while Sacha Lehrfreund’s Broken Saplings focuses on abandonment, destruction and a failure to thrive through the depiction of vandalised trees in the city photographed in situ.

Judith Lyons’ series of images Photographic Reproduction combine traditional analogue and digital photographic processes to explore the natural world and the cycle of life through complex geometric forms constructed from photographic representations of sperm, ova and developing embryos.

Wendy Pye’s short experimental film, Six Feet from the Edge surveys the interaction between people and the cliff edge of Beachy Head on the south coast, a well-known beauty and suicide spot, and is the latest work in her ongoing project Beachy Head.

In Trigger, Melanie Stidolph turns the table on urban wildlife and introduces a shift of control as she allows animal action rather than human thought to trigger the shutter.

The works in the show cut across different photographic genres and subject matter. In the spirit of collaboration, though varied the artist’s projects are all linked by a desire to explore alternative ways of presenting artistic works in a commercial gallery setting.