New Forms

About

Ribbon Machine Collective presents 'New Forms'; the work of 6 artists who focus on refreshing approaches to photography and the construction of images. They share in a common interest in experimenting with processes of making, each using their own method to give physical form to emotions, perceptions and memories.
Fanny uses images to explore narratives, either using the image to help build a narrative or manipulate it to match one. She's particularly interested in finding emotional connections between characters and their surroundings.
Monica uses touch, sound, sight and blindness to explore who we are and how perception influences impressions, thoughts and self-image.
Emma Jane's work plays with ideas of the domestic, repetition and the muddling of memories and stories, creating timeless images that are both awkward and familiar.
Diane's work moves from small meaningless scraps of thrown-away paperwork to the unfathomable massiveness of the universe. From tiny particles of dust to our magnificent blistering sun, thinking about the immense complexity and elegant simplicity that seem to govern life.
Elisa builds her images through objects, fabrics and living things creating flattened, highly patterned and saturated surfaces that play with how we perceive and make meanings through the images we experience.
Ella explores the expressive qualities of self-portraits and materials, and their ability to offer up psychological insights. In her work visceral objects and the body merge through the disrupted photographic surface, revealing a human system at once fragile and unstable.
Together, they create an inter-disciplinary exhibition where sound, text and objects are broken down and build up to create new possibilities for image making.