Fergus Heron

Phoenix Place

Phoenix Art Space: Project Space, Brighton          

Exhibition 5-13 October 2024

Wednesday-Sunday 12-5pm

Preview 4 October 6-8pm

An exhibition featuring new work by Fergus Heron takes place as part of Photo Fringe 2024 at Phoenix Art Space Project Space in Brighton. The work develops earlier projects picturing urban environments, including Albion Street 2017, showing and returning the view from the window of Heron’s studio in Phoenix Art Space.

This new project titled Phoenix Place, depicting the immediate vicinity of Phoenix Art Space, is partly inspired by art historian Nikolaus Pevsner’s perambulation into Phoenix Place described in The Buildings of England: Sussex East with Brighton and Hove. In connection, dialogue is created between different kinds of observations. Heron’s pictures propose a sense of place made up of composite views, some imagined from the past, layered with others seen in the present.

The exhibition addresses the Photo Fringe 2024 theme Common Ground by inviting consideration of how the histories of a community can be seen in pictures of urban environments within which people live and work. Referencing histories of photography, art and architecture, the exhibition combines different ways of seeing place to reimagine collective and individual needs, essential to ideas of the common past and present.

The project is supported with Arts and Humanities Research Council Funding administered by the University of Brighton.

 

Biography

Fergus Heron was born in London and currently lives and works in Brighton, England. He studied at the Royal College of Art and the University for the Creative Arts. Exhibitions featuring his work have taken place internationally at venues including Tate Britain and Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World.

He selected The Photographers’ Gallery: Photography Culture on Landscape and edited Visible Economies by Photoworks. His writing is also published in Emerging Landscapes and A Companion to Photography. He is Course Leader for MA Photography and a research supervisor in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton.