Royal Veterinary College Pots - Mick Frank
One of Gasket’s founders, Mick Frank, has recently completed a
stunning body of work in conjunction with the Royal Veterinary College (RVC). From Mick’s
own site; “The [RVC] eMedia Unit has been working with the Wellcome Trust to share
images of anatomical specimens at the RVC. These are historical dissections stored in
formalin pots - brought alive...
Unprotected Views - Sally Hart
As part of completing her Sociology Masters in Photography and Urban
Cultures at Goldsmiths College, Sally Hart (one of our Gasket founders), has presented her
visual work as part of the Habitus exhibition, held at Menier Gallery until the 25th of
October. From Sally’s website; “The exhibition is planned, funded, curated, installed
and executed by...
Gasket Founder Wins Goldsmiths Award
Congratulations to our own Sally Hart for winning the Goldsmiths
Sociology Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in MA Photography and Urban Cultures
2013/14! Over the course Sally has produced some extraordinary work such as Urban Terrior
and her final dissertation work Unprotected Views. We are proud to have Sally as part of our
collective and look...
Nancy Clemo - Profile and Interview
In the lead up to Leap-Second we’ll be helping you get to know our
exhibiting artists through their own words. We’re asking each artist a range of questions to
try and expose what makes them tick revealing what makes us so excited about this exhibition
at the same time. First up is Nancy (Betty) Clemo; a...
Leap-Second: Photographic Compositing Workshop with Helen Saunders
As part of our upcoming exhibition, Leap-Second, we are holding a two
day workshop with Helen Saunders. Helen’s unique process creates incredibly evocative
images, as seen in the works exhibited in Leap-Second, and her workshop will cover some of
the concepts and technical processes which go into the making of this kind of work. Helen
describes...
The Gasket Guide - Introduction
While we definitely wouldn’t want to claim to be experts in the field
of running a commercial photographic gallery, with our second exhibition under our belt we
have learnt a few lessons which we thought it might be worth sharing. As we also want to
work with a broad range of photographers and artists, many...
Adrift in Vienna - The Opening
On the 6th of June, Galerie Ruberl held the opening of our Adrift
exhibition in Vienna. We were lucky enough to attend the opening and were incredibly happy
with the response to the exhibition by both attendees and Ruberl. Open as part of Vienna’s
informal Thursday night galleries, the exhibition was well attended and received...
Adrift - The Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society
GASKET is proud to announce our first exhibition, Adrift - The
Unfamiliar Familiar in Modern Society, to be held at the Old Truman Brewery‘s Shop 14
from Monday 8th of October 2012 and running through the 13th October 2012. Adrift will
present ten artists whose photography engages directly with the increasing tension that
exists between the familiar and...
London Festival of Photography Syposium - Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private - Part 2
This is part 2 of our coverage of the London Festival of Photography
symposium held on June 9th, if you missed it, check out Part 1. Following the lunchbreak the
symposium restarted with another discussion piece, this one hosted by Firecracker (an online
platform supporting European female photographers). Fiona Rogers of Firecracker introduced
three female...
London Festival of Photography Syposium - Inside Out: Reflections on the Public and the Private - Part 1
On Saturday the 9th of June the London Festival of Photography held
its symposium titled Inside Out: Reflections on the Pubic and Private. The symposium
presented a broad range of practitioners and topics, all loosely relating to the title and
theme of the festival. Held at King’s Place near Kings Cross the full day symposium was
well...
Nat Chard & Samuel Van Hoogstraten - Peepshows
Nat Chard is using a 17th Century work by Samuel Van Hoogstraten
called A Peepshow with Views of the Interior of a Dutch House as the departure point for
some work incorporating photography. It is well worth taking a look at Nat’s first post on
the peepshow here; http://natchard.com/2011/09/30/403/ As well as the entire peepshow
category; http://natchard.com/category/peepshow/ ...
Developer Trays - John Cyr
Developer Trays by John Cyr is a striking set of images of… you
guessed it, developer trays. On his website Cyr writes that he has photographed the trays so
that the photographic community can remember its past and the tools used throughout
photography’s history, that the titling of each tray with its owner’s name is a...
