EXHIBITIONS

Archetypes of Random

17th May – 1st June

Archetypes of Random is a developing body of photographic work by artist Lou Hazelwood. 

Lou is a Hull based artist who has a diverse practice, which sees her investigate how our experiences, personal and cultural, and technologies, historical and contemporary, influence our experience of memory and forgetfulness. Her works takes many forms and responses from sound pieces, text, film, installation, performance and image based. Over the last decade she has been exploring damaged analogue film stock and photographic emulsion, working with a variety of processes to see how film responds. She manipulates the stability of the emulsion and what it ultimately records, which has resulted in exhibitions To Stain (2017) Landscapes of the Un(Known) (2020) and The Chemistry of Woodlands (2024).

The photographs in this exhibition stem from a damaged 35mm colour film stock. The damage on the film shows itself as randomly placed circular redactions inherent in the films emulsion, likely stemming from the way the film has been stored. Utilising in camera and in processing experimental methods to produce this work she further embellished with screen printing (spot varnishing) and flocking. There are many ways to begin to understand these photographs the circles can be seen as ‘apertures’ from the process of photography or as diagrams/markers that are linking/constructing and deconstructing these abstract images

17th May – 1st June

Thurs – Sunday

11am – 4pm

Admission Free