Catch an extraordinary Stephen Gill exhibition this week at the Arnolfini
Posted on: 10 Jan 2022The acclaimed retrospective will be on display at the Harbourside gallery until Sunday 16 January.
A retrospective on celebrated wildlife photographer Stephen Gill is coming to an end at the Arnolfini, with this Sunday marking the end of a three-month run.
Titled Coming Up For Air: Stephen Gill - A Retrospective, the showcase includes a stunning variety of shots spanning well over thirty years – including some of his most detailed studies to date.
Entry to the exhibition is free and, while walk-ins may be available throughout the week, exhibition slots can be booked on the Arnolfini website.
We're heading towards the last week of Coming up for Air: Stephen Gill - A Retrospective at Arnolfini (ends on Sunday 16 January).
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Stephen Gill was born in Bristol in 1971 and the city is an important part of his journey so far. An early obsession with collecting insects and bugs led to an interest in photography and, as a child, Gill enrolled in a cityscape photography course at the Watershed.
He is perhaps best known as a documentary photographer with his black and white, long-term studies deeply informed by the physical geography around him. He is also intrigued by the relationship between photographs and typography/prose.
In recent years, books have become a key component in Gill’s artistic output with the photographer self-publishing several printed works, including The Pillar in 2019. The award-winning piece weds photographs of birds in locations spanning from Hackney Wick to Sweden with the rousing poetry of Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Excerpts from the collection are on display in the exhibition.
Arnolfini is the perfect location for this exhibition that features photographs from Gill’s most iconic series including Hackney Flowers, Buried, Talking to Ants, Night Procession, Pigeons, Coexistence and Coming up for Air; as well as a selection of previously unexhibited work hand picked by the photographer himself.
Coming up for Air : Stephen Gill – A Retrospective is curated by Stephen Gill and Arnolfini’s Executive Director Gary Topp and forms part of Arnolfini’s 60th anniversary programme, celebrating its past, present and future.
The exhibition closes on Sunday 16 January and is free entry, exhibition slots can be booked online. To find out more about what’s coming up at Arnolfini, head to their website.
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