[NetBehaviour] Photography exhibition

[Simon Mclennan]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEk-ornsRUw/?igsh=MWwxMWRibjg5aWpudA==

I am showing photographs alongside another photographer - Arabella Wynne,
in Brighton at Boudica from the 25th January.

We both shoot 35mm film.

Arabella curated both our work.
My work covers 2014 to 2024.

My blurb courtesy of C. Dobson -

"Outlining fragments of bare-life for the last ten years, in Brighton,
Mclennan’s photography ponders upon the nature of contemporary bohemian
culture; bringing to the fore vivid human emotions. Among communities ever
saturated with social distancing, artifice, and forced advancement, a
photographer’s eye brings some necessary stillness into the fold. But the
stillness is largely illusory. All of the portraits on display here give
the impression of dynamic movement; people are held to be in situ to their
currents and tides; ever alive and seeming to anticipate the next frame, as
if trapped in a dance. The landscapes and still-lifes add to this dance
through the dynamic movement of the sun and shadows. Among everything we’re
beholding the inescapable passage of time. However, Mclennan’s goal isn’t
merely to showcase the abstract flux of things, as pretty as it is. Real
life stories are being told from these pictures: stories of friendship,
love, loneliness, poverty, addiction, death, and landlords. If these
pictures do move, it is only down to the moving relationships that have
heroically struck out from the violent stagnation of contemporary bourgeois
existence. The simple fact that these pictures are showing real people, and
real struggles, is, perhaps, an obvious point to make. But it is brutal
simplicity at its finest."



Arabella travelled around from a young age on her father's boat, this
experience has led to her seeing and experiencing the world in a uniquely
sensitive way.  Her images evoke senses and feelings that might resonate
with her audience on a personal level, yet she uses a universal language
that many can understand and relate to.

Her photographs often have humour and at times highlight intricacies which
lie buried deep in our unconscious.  An abstract yet magical quality in the
work leads to an appreciation of beauty in the mundane. Her combinations of
colour and form come with a feeling of flow and show an appreciation for
the smallest of details.

This body of work seems to be built on classical aesthetics, yet brings
something unique and transcendental, taking us - her audience - on a gentle
and  soulful journey.


Solid Birds will play.


Thanks!


Simon
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