Exhibitions

Red Door Gallery presents an exhibition of Photographs by Lucy Jenner

Exhibition times, April 1st – June 29th, Mon-Wed 12-6pm, Thur- Sun 11-6pm.

I seeAsia as a beautiful collage of religions, customs, cultures, landscapes, languages and races. My work celebrates these diversities that I have had the privilege to experience first hand when I travelled around India, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia and Laos. My eyes find beauty in the everyday objects that I photograph, be it a tiny detail of a carving on an old shabby door or the accidental way that shoes left on the floor form a pattern. I tile together these photos of everyday objects and scenes in a very methodical manner to create a stimulating picture. I describe each piece as a ‘woven photograph’ made out of textures and colours, often in an abstracted form, which when placed next to each other create a whole image.

Colour is the main focus of each piece, as it is often for me the most inspiring, intoxicating and enriching quality of Asian life. I crave the colourful sight of the ubiquitous sari of India, where no two are the same, or the bright, gaudy wares of street hawkers in Thailand. Having colourful surroundings lifts my spirits and fuels my creativity.

I had the walnut frames made in Bangalore, India. It involved an awful lot of tooing and froing in autos around the city, relying on the driver’s knowledge to take me to the appropriate commercial quarters, so I could find the raw materials and craftsmen. They also helped to translate my instructions to the carpenters who didn’t speak any English. I had to postpone a flight and my travels to wait for the frames to be finished, which then took over a year to reach me in the UK. All that said and done, I am very pleased with the final results and think that they compliment my work both visually and in their authentication of my work as a truly Asian experience.