All Images © Ellie Davies

Ellie Davies, a photographer who we have featured previously as a ‘Pick of the Day’ is currently exhibiting her landscape work at 10GS in London.

Smoke and Mirrors brings together new landscape work by photographer Ellie Davies. Produced over the last three years working in the New Forest, she explores her relationship to the landscape, its role in defining personal identity and the notion that all perceptions of nature are in some way mediated by culture.

The term ‘landscape’ can be seen as a socially constructed description of nature embedded in memory, history, storytelling, folk law and magic, obscuring the reality of the land, veiling it, transforming the natural world into an idealization.

Davies plays the role of a witness and a narrator as she becomes actively involved with the forest space, inscribing on it and weaving into it, building a personal experience and interaction. Introducing nterventions such as pools of light and darkness, pathways of wool and paint, golden trees, and marks drawn into the landscape, she captures a trajectory or a record of an interaction like an ephemeral self-portrait. The materials weave, sew, thread and connect her tangibly to the landscape for a short time, catching and locating herself within it, as she questions the stability of ‘nature’ and landscape’ as concepts.

Exhibition Details:
art@10gs
10 Grosvenor Street
London
W1K 4QB

Exhibition Opening Times:
13th May - 5th September 2011
Monday - Friday 10am - 5.30pm
Weekend viewings by appointment

Ellie Davies

Luminous Flux -1

© Wendy Pye

A couple of Nova photographers will be featured on the Photo Fringe of the Brighton Photo Biennial 2010.

Wendy Pye is one of the exhibiting photographers at In Site at the Bluedog Gallery. Wendy will be exhibiting work from her ‘Luminous Flux’ series - part of her Beachy Head project. An image from her series ‘In Memory of 12′ is available from the gallery.

Julian Ward is one of the featured photographers at Traces at Gallery 100. Julian’s photo ‘Peru, 2006′ is available from the gallery.

Our first (and rather belated - apologies) selection this week is an exhibition: England My England from Chris Steele-Perkins.

The Guardian offers a presentation with the photographer talking through his record of English life.

The exhibition runs from 18th June to 30th July at Kings Place Gallery.

Our selection today is a body of work from Coventry factory worker, Robert Longden.

© Robert Longden/RLPA

The exhibition is covered in the Guardian, which also features a photo gallery.

The exhibition, entitled ‘Inland Voyage: Life on the Coventry and Oxford Canals’ opens at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum, Coventry, on Saturday and runs until 30 August.

There’s also a book ‘A Canal People’.

Apologies for the lack of a POD yesterday. Today we’ll make up for it with two choices - the second later.

Our first pick today is Nicole Belle’s ‘apartment’ series. Belle is one of the photographers featured in FotoFest’s ‘Assembly: Eight Emerging Photographers From Southern California’ exhibition.

All photos © Nicole Belle

More here.

Something a little different today. A selection of images from the The 2009 LCC MA Photography Final Show & Catalogue.

Untitled 1 from the series ‘A Modern Bohemian’ by Kate Elliott

Re: Hay Wood [2] by Karen Grainger

Look Left Look Right by Hester Jones

Bathroom by Pablo Baqué de Puig

The exhibition runs from 24th November to 3rd December at The Gallery, London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, London, SE1 6SB. The private view is tonight.

Our second exhibition of the day was a joint effort: Selected Photographs 2006-2009 by Jim Green and Akemi’s Place - Paintings and Prints by Natalie Abadzis.

Half of the space is occupied by Natalie’s delicate, intriguing vignettes which are beautifully displayed and contrast with Jim’s robust, graphical and luminous imagery which occupies the rest of the space.

The exhibition is at Nolias Gallery, 60 Great Suffolk Street, London, SE1 0BL and only runs until 3PM on the 24th November - so hurry!

10% of all artwork sold goes to Macmillan Cancer Relief.