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I am showing photographs alongside another photographer - Arabella Wynne, in Brighton at Boudica from the 25th January. We both shoot 35mm film. Arabella curated both our work. My work covers 2014 to 2024. My blurb courtesy of C. Dobson - "Outlining fragments of bare-life for the last ten years, in Brighton, Mclennan’s photography ponders upon the nature of contemporary bohemian culture; bringing to the fore vivid human emotions. Among communities ever saturated with social distancing, artifice, and forced advancement, a photographer’s eye brings some necessary stillness into the fold. But the stillness is largely illusory. All of the portraits on display here give the impression of dynamic movement; people are held to be in situ to their currents and tides; ever alive and seeming to anticipate the next frame, as if trapped in a dance. The landscapes and still-lifes add to this dance through the dynamic movement of the sun and shadows. Among everything we’re beholding the inescapable passage of time. However, Mclennan’s goal isn’t merely to showcase the abstract flux of things, as pretty as it is. Real life stories are being told from these pictures: stories of friendship, love, loneliness, poverty, addiction, death, and landlords. If these pictures do move, it is only down to the moving relationships that have heroically struck out from the violent stagnation of contemporary bourgeois existence. The simple fact that these pictures are showing real people, and real struggles, is, perhaps, an obvious point to make. But it is brutal simplicity at its finest." Arabella travelled around from a young age on her father's boat, this experience has led to her seeing and experiencing the world in a uniquely sensitive way. Her images evoke senses and feelings that might resonate with her audience on a personal level, yet she uses a universal language that many can understand and relate to. Her photographs often have humour and at times highlight intricacies which lie buried deep in our unconscious. An abstract yet magical quality in the work leads to an appreciation of beauty in the mundane. Her combinations of colour and form come with a feeling of flow and show an appreciation for the smallest of details. This body of work seems to be built on classical aesthetics, yet brings something unique and transcendental, taking us - her audience - on a gentle and soulful journey. Solid Birds will play. Thanks! Simon
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