Exhibition programme for Summer, Autumn and begining of Winter 09

Confirmation of dates until the end of the year

"Birds of A Feather" Anthony Smith and Joel Bird, Opening 16th of July , show running 17th of July until the 7th of October
"A Place Worth Living" Anthony & Nathan Pendlebury, Opening 8th of Oct, show running 9th of Oct until the 18th of
Nov
Revolution in Evolution, Darwin, Prenton High School, Opening 19th of Nov, show running 20th Nov until 13th of Jan

Birds of Feather

Anthony Smith and Joel Bird will be joining us in the incubator for our next exhibition begining mid July.

Louise Waller

Roger Sinek

Roger is from Rhodesia, now called Zimbabwe. He started taking photographs when he was 11. He originally came to Liverpool to study architecture and play drums. In between working on his own photographic projects and undertaking on commissions, he works with Tate Liverpool. He exhibits with Soup and the Oxton Artists.

Artist Statement

“After an initial foray with a plastic camera aged 8, I was given a Twin Lens Reflex camera at 11 and started taking photographs in earnest. My father taught me; he had a darkroom so I experienced the magic. I did better work then; direct, no influences, emulating no one.

I prefer the waist level viewfinder. You look down onto a two-dimensional screen, image reversed laterally, so there is a remove from the literal. With a conventional viewfinder you look through. You see as a hunter, looking for food or for danger, spatially. It’s a different thing.

I believe photographs are abstract, because freezing a moment in time is unnatural, and there are many ways in which the camera sees things we cannot, or in a different way. We forget this because there's so much of it about.

Overall, I'm interested in essence and resonance, seeking the universal in the ephemeral. I do not rearrange what I find, nor manipulate the image, but I don’t mind if it looks that way. I like the facts to be ambiguous, for it to be unclear when and how an image was made – to allow space for the imagination. Again, there should be a remove from the literal, an image not a recording”.

Roger Sinek and Louise Waller

The joint opening for Louise and Roger's exhibition on Thursday went very well, with fantastic light streaming in to the incubator