Photography by Sally Tyrie
A Quiet That Seems Coordinated
Sally Tyrie
I am a Fine Artist working mainly with photography, printmaking, mixed media and bookwork. I have a BA Hons in Fine Art from Nottingham Trent University and an MA in Fine and Applied Arts from the University of Hertfordshire.
My work focuses on questions about human experience, place and environment and explores how material and process can create a narrative about these themes.
During the pandemic the sense of confinement and being out of place has influenced current investigations around the notion of A sense of displacement.
My work has been selected for exhibitions such as Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries and a group exhibition, Rituals, at The Crypt Gallery, London. This event was reviewed by artist, writer and curator Matt Bray who said of my work that they “reference time as the inescapable master of entropy…. quiet and cerebral, . and offer the time and space to get lost in one’s own thoughts”.
I especially value working with other artists on projects that challenge me to work in new ways. In 2016-18 I undertook a collaborative residency at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire. This culminated in an exhibition and, with the support of National Trust staff, a series of mixed-media installations in the Hides dotted around the reserve. Through collaboration, I designed, wrote and published a catalogue for this project. Building upon themes from the first, a second project led to an exhibition at Snape in 2020, Tracing Shadows.
I am currently involved in Letchworth Windows, a Project Space venture, led by The Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, which involves the installation of work from artists at my studios in Hertfordshire into empty shop windows in Letchworth.
Heideggger writes that ‘dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Over the past year, periods of isolation, uncertainty and displacement have inspired me to examine ideas around our multi-layered relationship with ‘dwelling’ and ‘place’.
At the start of ‘lockdown’ I began working from the garden shed. Basic, restricted and claustrophobic, but also a way to retreat, I was intrigued by photographs captured in that time, particularly their sense of disquiet.
This work forms part of a larger body of work created during that period. It accompanies mixed media outcomes, including work on canvas and board. Juxtaposed work that examines ideas around place, absence and presence. A preoccupation and obsession with noting details and an exploration of 'Home' as a meditative form of 'being'.Digital print on Hannemuhle Bamboo 290gsm (archival)
52x40cm
Framed
Edition of 15