ON NOW: Small Town Inertia -Documentary & Portraits by J A Mortram
12/01/2019 – 24/03/2019
Jim has been photographing the lives of people in his community who, through physical and mental problems and a failing social security system, face isolation and loneliness in their daily lives. His work covers difficult subjects such as disability, addiction and self-harm, but is always with hope and dignity, focusing upon the strength and resilience of the people he photographs.
Yan Wang Preston: Forest
06/04/2019 – 09/06/2019
In the photographic project Forest, the British-Chinese artist Yan Wang Preston spends eight years (2010-2017) investigating the politics of recreating forests and ‘natural’ environment in new Chinese cities. In Chongqing, China’s largest metropolis with thirty-million people, a policy of having a ‘Forest City’ is implemented.
Curated by Liz Hingley / Sirkka Liisa Konttinen
Alys Tomlinson: Ex Voto
06/04/2019 – 09/06/2019
Taken at the pilgrimage sites of Lourdes (France), Ballyvourney (Ireland) and Grabarka (Poland), the project encompasses formal portraiture, large format landscape and small, detailed still-lifes of the objects and markers left behind.
Curated by Liz Hingley / Sirkka Liisa Konttinen
Juliet Chenery-Robson
Portrait of an Invisible Illness II
6th April until 8th May
In Portrait of an Invisible Illness II, visual artist Juliet Chenery-Robson revisits a series of three interlinked projects (Unpredictable Patterns, A Diagnosis of Exclusion: Kingdoms of the Sick and Portrait of an Invisible Illness, 2007-2015) that employ a range of strategies for visualising ME and its contingent invisibilities
WORK – Various Photographers
22/06/2019 – 08/09/2019
Dean Chapman curates a new collection of photographs exploring the central theme of work. These photographs are sourced from the Amber archive, one of the largest and most important collections of social documentary photography in the world.
Ivor Prickett: End of the Caliphate & Seeking Shelter
Saturday 28th September to Sunday 15th December 2019
Syrian refugees in the Middle East and Europe 2012-2016
After five years of war in Syria almost half of the population has now been displaced. Nearly four million people have fled across its borders to the surrounding countries of Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq and Jordan, while more than six and a half million are internally displaced.
