Fergus Heron discusses Phoenix Place, an exhibition that featured new work shown recently as part of Photo Fringe 2024 at Phoenix Art Space Project Space. The work develops earlier projects picturing urban environments, including Albion Street 2017, showing and returning the view from the window of Heron’s studio in Phoenix Art Space.
The exhibition included five new works depicting the immediate vicinity of Phoenix Art Space, partly inspired by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner’s perambulation of Phoenix Place in The Buildings of England: Sussex East with Brighton and Hove. In connection, dialogue occurs between different observations. Heron’s pictures propose a sense of place made up of views imagined from the past layered with ones seen in the present.
Addressing the Photo Fringe 2024 theme Common Ground, the exhibition invited reflection on how the histories of a community can be seen in pictures of urban environments within which people live and work. Referencing histories of photography, art and architecture in connection, the project combines different ways of seeing place to reimagine ideas of the common past and present.
Date: Tuesday 12/11/24
Time: 16.00-17.00
Who can attend: All
Where: Edward Street, 305
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