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This body of photographs (2012-2017) examines and documents found glass surfaces in various locations between London and Sussex, usually street furniture such as phone boxes and bus shelters. Over time, various narratives emerge on these surfaces, combining natural marks (detritus, moisture, weathering) with deliberate interventions (scratching, scoring, depositing, smearing, sticking). Gradually, new elements arrive and coexist - often briefly - leaving an echo of what each space has witnessed. It is rarely clear how or why they emerged, but these raw, ambiguous, layered ghosts reveal a very particular calligraphy and trigger a sense of forensic curiosity. Whilst usually the residues of illegal acts of vandalism, touching traces of 'being human' can sometimes be found: a cathartic or intimate declaration, a personal message, an affection, a proposition, a confession, a playful moment; (or by contrast) an expression of loss or jealousy, a violent outburst, a retraction, a corrosive attack with fire or acid, an abrasion, an incoherent gesture akin to primal automatism. Elsewhere, chance and accident offer unintended juxtapositions, interpretations and potential narratives. These fragments are framed within atmospheric glimpses of their environments and contexts. Other than subtle adjustments in post-production, this work involves no intervention or manipulation (on location or subsequently). It seeks to direct our attention to the corners and recesses of our immediate environments, to amplify the overlooked and to celebrate the richness found in the banal and the ordinary. It also seeks to explore new ways of looking at landscape.
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Tony Bowen is a UK based fine artist working mainly with photography. Since postgraduate study, he has divided his time between personal practice and art and design education (teaching and curriculum leadership) in Manchester, where he was born and in Sussex, where he now lives. With a background and first degree in painting, an interest in making photographs has developed over time: initially supporting work with other media and subsequently as outcomes in their own right. Alongside formal and atmospheric considerations, his work is largely inspired by the power of the trace, the fragment and the unresolved to provoke the imagination in unexpected ways. A preoccupation with interpreting and documenting the found mark has spanned a number of years. More recent work focuses largely on interrogating and exploring ordinary and often overlooked surfaces present in natural, domestic and urban environments. The residues of human and other activity are areas of particular interest, suggesting all kinds of narratives and stimulating broad lines of investigation. Whether metaphorical or literal, these enquiries open up new, personal ways of reading the environment, and of deciphering and engaging with landscape. His work has been shown widely in galleries, venues and publications throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.
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