Lovelace and Ryalls create collaborative works within spaces between photography and performance.
PHOTO50 PERFORMANCE: TOM LOVELACE AND EMILY RYALLS- ‘DOING & UNDOING ISLANDS’
Tom Lovelace and Emily Ryalls
With collaborators Melanie Issaka, Phoebe Somerfield, James Dewhirst, Yanzhen Xiao, Rachel Gordon, Georgia Williams.
FRIDAY 22 APRIL – 1:00PM
Lovelace and Ryalls create collaborative works sitting within spaces between photography and performance. Unfolding as a live collage installation, the artist will explore the ever-evolving notion of home and the relationship we share with landscape. What began with insular thoughts between the two, we now see as an exhibition, forming space for collective connections to landscape, asking how we deal with and negotiate disappearing landscapes. Through sculptural framing and collaborative curation, Lovelace and Ryalls will activate images and objects – allowing them to move, fold, disappear and reappear. In turn, places, memories, images will collide, expand and collapse.
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Tom Lovelace is a London based artist, working within spaces that lie between photography, performance and sculpture. Central themes to his research encompass the collaborative histories of photography, theatre and the role of Minimalism within contemporary culture.
Residencies include London South Bank University (2019-2020), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017), Allegra Projects, Switzerland (2017), Lendi Projects, Switzerland (2015), European Capital of Culture, Aarhus, Denmark (2013) and the Anna Mahler International Foundation, Italy (2012).
Recent exhibitions and displays include Known and Strange – Victoria and Albert Museum (London 2021-2022), Bathers – Sid Motion Gallery (London 2021), Chapter Two, with Eva Stenram – Alma Zevi Gallery (London 2021), The Dancer and the Shadow – Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris 2020), On Photographic Beings – The National Museum of Art, (Riga, Latvia 2020), Mirror Mirror – Atelier NŌUA (Norway 2020), The State of Things – Landskrona Foto (Sweden 2020), The Truth in Disguise – GESTE (Paris 2019), Present Tense – Materia Gallery (Rome 2019), Interval – Flowers Gallery (London 2019) and Dazzle Site – Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017-2019).
Residencies include London South Bank University (2019-2020), Yorkshire Sculpture Park (2017), Allegra Projects, Switzerland (2017), Lendi Projects, Switzerland (2015), European Capital of Culture, Aarhus, Denmark (2013) and the Anna Mahler International Foundation, Italy (2012).
Lovelace is a Tutor at the Royal College of Art and University for the Creative Arts. www.tomlovelace.co.uk
Emily Ryalls is a Yorkshire based artist working predominantly with the intersection of photography and performance. Her practice is rooted in blurring the lines between a divided photographer/subject relationship, creating meaningful and collaborative works that are able to examine and prompt crucial conversation on the role of photography as a non-exploitive means of co-production and connection.
Emily studied Photography at Nottingham Trent University, graduating in 2019 with a BA First Class Honours. Within this time she also studied Curation and Conceptual Photography at ULisboa Belas Artes (2018). In 2019 Emily was also nominated for BJP’s Ones to Watch and since then her work has featured in The Guardian, Yorkshire Post, BBC and Pupil Sphere. Exhibitions include ‘Re-emergence’, a group show by Thomas Elliot Wood, (Leeds, 2021), ‘This Too Shall Pass’ by The Merrie Collective, commissioned by Wakefield Council (2020), ‘Solar Dance’ commissioned by Wakefield Council’s Festival of The Moon (2019). Publications include Something Different Starts to Happen, Tide Press (2020), This Too Shall Pass, self published by The Merrie Collective (2021) and Fun and Games, a self published print-at-home zine (2021).
Currently Emily is working on a project exploring the relationships with hostile architecture in public spaces, as part of The Tetley’s PANIC! Network Artist Bursaries. This year, she also led on the build and development of a new fully wheelchair accessible community darkroom in Wakefield, which she now programmes and manages. Lastly, in response to the pandemic in 2021, Emily founded The Merrie Collective, a Wakefield based artist collective which is growing and evolving to work on engaging and innovative local projects.