Scott Perry
Wielka Brytania – UK
Galleywood Essex
Scott is a photographic artist and photography lecturer who works with photographic paper as a material to create new worlds, other than always relying on the real world for the catalyst of his photographic practice. Often eschewing conventional tools of photography, Scott often builds cameras or photographic material, making the surface and process of the work as important as the final result. Interpreting photography as ‘drawing with light’ his work is not restricted to a fixed presentation on the wall, instead using light in space involving the viewer into the photographic space; bringing the viewer closer to light’s performance in the photographic process. Scott’s practice is based within theoretical research into the relationship between the viewer and the photograph, exploring the ‘performative indexicality’ of light within the photographic process.
Selected Recent Exhibitions:
2019:
36 Exposures, Fringe Arts Bath, Bath
Pinhole Porto Photography, Porto, Portugal
The Outsider - Bushwick Community Darkroom, New York, U.S.A.
The Sound of Colour, Creative Arts Hub, Mirfield
2018:
Dark to Light: Hope in a Hopeless Place - 35 Chapel Walk, Sheffi
eld
Umbra - London College Of Communication, London
Normal Papers, Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath
2017:
Mythologies - The Tabernacle, London
Polish Festival of Pinhole Photography - Katowice, Poland
The Secret Postcard Show - The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derbyshire
'As it Stands': Unrefined, Muted, Abandoned - Hundred Years Gallery, London
FreeRange - The Old Truman Brewery, London
Intrusion - Paddington Central, London
Afterglow is a new body of work that I have been working on and would love to show it for the first time at OFFO 2019 after showing my Defying Gravity work at OFFO 2017, which was an amazing opportunity and experience and therefore it is where I would like to debut this work.
The current images that I have sent are scans of prints and therefore there is some dust on them. Please be aware that I will be sending new darkroom prints for the exhibition.
Afterglow is a series of work that explores the relationship between light and the camera. Taking the definition of the camera as a dark chamber the project explores theatres as parallels to camera obscuras, instead of a dark space illuminated by external light, the theatre uses artificial light from within itself to create a performance of light. The project was realised through building a pinhole camera with 12 different entrances of light (mimicking the structure of a theatre) which all expose at one time to create an abstract image focusing on light, colour and pattern within the resulting images which capture the lights from the theatre space.