For Surrey Artists Open Studios (SAOS) 2025, I have created an interactive photograph where the viewer gets to choose how they arrange the 20 images and, if they decide to, get to make their own picture. All pictures made during the exhibition will be shown here.
I recently visited a Jeff Wall exhibition. His work is on a massive scale and immerses the viewer in each scene with the combination of size and vibrancy in his images. I challenged myself to create an alternative way of engaging the viewer with the image on a smaller scale and started experimenting with the idea of an interlocking picture puzzle. Resisting the idea of encouraging the viewer to solve the image and ‘get it right’, I arrived at the idea of using abstract imagery in combination with tessellating tiles, allowing the viewer to create and record the picture of their choice, effectively editing the scene to their liking.
SAOS 2025 Exhibition at Kiln Photo, Kiln Village Hall, St Georges Road, Badshot Lea, Farnham GU9 9LY
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7th - 22nd June 2025 - weekends only
David
Jan
Ronin
Rahil
Liz
Ed
Bex
Katherine
Lila
Freddie
Ethan
Anon
Anon
David
Matt
Alex
Kirsty
Gilly
Heidi
Kian
Emma
Anon
Andy
Dylan
Ab
David
Denise
Catherine
Lucy
Poppy
Zoe
Flo
Anon
Alex
Seamus
John
Hugo - age 6
Jules
Anon
Cally
Hattie - age 4
Glyn
David
Susan
Alex
Iain
Phil