Harry Cory Wright chooses to shoot his images using traditional 10x8 inch film cameras. “I have always got a thrill from the physical nature of the process from beginning to end”. His cameras are large and cumbersome. He carries the heavy equipment across salt marshes, cliffs, fields and woods, waiting, looking and responding to his surroundings. Everything is slowed down. One can feel in his photographs the pleasure he takes in engaging with the camera and the landscape. Yet rather than proceeding to the enlarger, high end digital scans are made from the negative before being worked on to make the final print. This combines the traditional methods of using film cameras with the masterful hardware and beautiful papers that the digital age now affords us.

The exhibition will pair Cory Wright’s landscape photographs with his striking abstracted watercolours. These works explore ways that the feelings of ‘being in landscape’ can be revealed through the simplest of gestures. “Sometimes I see these works as opposite to the photography; their abstraction versus the ‘literal total visual’ of the big camera. Increasingly they run together. If I juxtapose a photograph and a drawing…, I am interested by how they inform each other. The real beside the imagined”. “They have been chosen together because they show the best of each other. They are all exploring the sensation of being in a place.”