It Starts with a Photograph
May 2 – September 2, 2025
Art Celebration: Wednesday May 7, 2025, 6:00-8:00pm. Welcome remarks at 6:30pm. Free admission, please register to attend.
As part of the CONTACT Photography Festival, four exhibitions and installations by six artists use photographs as the starting point for experimentation and reinterpretation. Laura Butler pixelates a family photograph and recreates it in crochet. Nika Belianina and Laura Kay Keeling explore our relationship to nature in collaged and manipulated analogue and digital photographs. Heather Haynes layers paint, thread and rug hooking to create a textured and complex portrait incorporating Virginia Macdonald‘s photograph. Jessica Thalmann creates architectural abstractions by folding, tearing and colouring photographs. By translating photographs into different media and altering them by hand and digitally, these artists show the expressive possibilities of the medium.
10:00am – 7:00pm daily (Lobby, Lobby Corridor, Stairway Gallery, 2nd Floor Lounge)