Re-imagined Ecologies

Daniel C. Blight; Fergus Heron; Zoe Childerley; Holly Birtles; Rachel Gillies; Åsa Johannesson; Martin Seeds

Re-imagined Ecologies

Research output: Non-textual output › Exhibition

Abstract

This exhibition of recent practice-based work by colleagues in the Photography Research Excellence Group explores ecological themes through depictions of human and animal bodies and environments. Featuring work by Holly Birtles, Daniel C Blight, Zoe Childerley, Rachel K Gillies, Fergus Heron, Åsa Johannesson and Martin Seeds.

The selection of work in the exhibition offers various ways to reimagine how human and non-human natures relate to one another with photography as a disclosive medium embedded in ecological relations.

Different approaches to photography are presented in the exhibition that refer to and challenge traditional realist categories of picturing, as well as contrasting methods of image appropriation, montage and collage. The exhibition contributes new perspectives on relations of art and ecology with which to reflect upon current circumstances and consider uncertain futures.

Re-imagined Ecologies builds upon recent Photography Research Excellence Group activities, including previous exhibitions during Photo Fringe 2024 in our School of Art and Media Dorset
Place and Willmot Galleries, an exhibition responding to the British Antarctic Survey Archive and Stranger than Fiction at Phoenix Art Space Project Space in 2024.

Original language	English
Media of output	Online
Publication status	Published - 7 Nov 2025
Event	Re-imagined Ecologies - Dorset Place Gallery, Brighton, United Kingdom Duration: 7 Nov 2025 → 20 Nov 2025

Bibliographical note

Artists with work featured in the exhibition are practice-based researchers and lecturers contributing to teaching on the undergraduate and postgraduate photography courses in the Fine Art subject area of the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton.

Keywords

Art
Photography
Exhibition
Appropriation Art
Art and AI
Ecology
Landscape
fiction/non-fiction
bodies

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Press releaseFinal published version, 141 KB
Exhibition plan viewFinal published version, 50.4 KB

1 Editorial work

Rundbrief Fotograpfie (Journal)
Heron, F. (Reviewer)
16 Jun 2017
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work

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