Quintessence Exhibition
Presents work by 14 different artists
- Exhibiting, as a group exhibition, works from contemporary photography archive
- Designed for future public enjoyment
- Creative Partnership with Local and International photographers
- Expanded and develop over the course of 4 Years
- “they engage creatively with the idea that it is only through alterity that we come to know ourselves”
- 6 from Archilse Contemporary Photography Collection (2011-15)
- All of these Artists have completed projects for Archilse
- Solo exhibitions from each artist
International Photographer in Residence (IPR) Programme
- Sank, Toropstov and Pope
- Brings photographers to live, work and teach in Jersey for 6 months
- Body of work for exhibition and addition to Archive
- IPR teach one day a week: over 100 workshops for islanders since 2011
- Give Jersey community access to educational and professional development by internationally successful artists whilst building contemporary collection of photography in Jersey
- ‘Quintessence’ marks first five years of Archisle Programme
The 6 Photographers
Michelle Sank
- Influence from social order of Henry Mullin’s mid-19th Century Portraits
Clement William Henry – Photographed by Mullins
Mr de Quetteville – Photographed by Mullins
Yury Toropstov
- Character from ‘Fairyland’, a JBOF Carnival exhibit in 1937 British Pathé film
Tom Pope
- Mask-making, subversive messages and game playing
Mark Le Ruez
- Jersey born artist based in Berlin
- 2014-15 Solo Exhibitions
Martin Toft
- Atlantus: transoceanic photography project between Martin Toft and Archilse
- 350th Aniversity of Jersey Sir George Carteret naming U.S. State New Jersey after Jersey
- 5 stories that respond to people, politics, landscapes, industries and indentites of Jersey and New Jersey
- Binary Opposites: island vs. continental life
Martin Parr
- World renowned British Photographer
- Commissioned to Photograph 2013 Liberation Day Celebrations
8 nominated Artists
Gareth’s choice = Jem Southam
- Jem Southam = Gareth’s Tutor at University of Plymouth
- Red Mudstone Photographs = formal visual analyses of geological trauma
- Rocks = “geographically an psychologically definite of island life”
- Man made effects on environment
Martin Parr = Tony Ray Jones
- Tony Ray Jones: 2013 exhibition only in England
- Worked in the past with Ray-Jones’ negatives
- Inspired very much the now distinct style of Parr
Martin Toft = Finn Larsen
- Martin’s Toft’s former mentor
- Landscape photographer
- Focuses on issue of changing landscape and climate due to man-made influences
Michelle Sank = David Goldbatt
- South African photographer noted for his portrayal of South Africa during the period of apartheid
- More recently that country’s landscapes
- Inspiration for Michelle Sank study of social landscapes
Mark Le Ruez = John Gibbons
- Irish conceptual artist – born 1949
- Known for sculptures and ‘steelwork’
Sculpture: And the Earth Changes Shape
Tom Pope = Peter Finnermore
- Welsh Conceptual Artist
- Known for performance based, subversive photography
- Influenced and inspired Pope’s playful, subversive and comical approach to photography and artistic performance
