Event: British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and University of Brighton Collaboration – Exhibition Opening 5.30 pm 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place – Exhibition runs until 30 March 2025

All are very welcome to the exhibition opening on 20 March 2025 at Dorest Place from 5.30 pm.

This exhibition brings together artworks by staff and students in the University of Brighton (UoB) photography degrees and digital music and sound art degree. The exhibition comprises of image and sound responses to selected themes inspired from the British Antarctic Survey Archive (BAS), who have generously opened up their doors to welcome this collaboration.

Artists have worked with the archive in a variety of ways, realising new visual work which reappropriates images within the archive using techniques such as collage, working with AI platforms, dark room processes, cyanotypes, Polaroid and installation.

Source material has been as diverse as photographs themselves, maps, written communications and other records, all hosted at the BAS in Cambridge. Responses, exhibited in this exhibition, are inspired by a range of themes emerging from the glimpses possible of such a large and varied catalogue: for example, from the political (geopolitical, feminist) to the aesthetic and abstract, looking at communication, landscapes and human needs and desires in such spaces.

Sound artists have responded to the specific image examples the photographic artists have chosen as initial inspiration, deepening the themes and extending the ways in which an archive can be seen anew.

Many of the projects are ongoing and will be developed further in conjunction with the BAS.