Exhibition

Dead Flowers // New Faces - Jason McGlade

10 Mar 2022 – 20 Mar 2022

Regular hours

Monday
Closed
Tuesday
10:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 18:00
Thursday
10:00 – 18:00
Friday
10:00 – 18:00
Saturday
10:00 – 18:00
Sunday
10:00 – 18:00

Free admission

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Gallery 46

London
England, United Kingdom

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GALLERY46 presents the first solo LONDON show of JASON McGLADE -
A wonderment moment of the impermanence of character captured

About

Jason McGlade is calmly and beautifully attuned to chasing serendipity, in the uncertainty and chaos which has abound. Unbelievably, the rare beauty of 'DEAD FLOWERS // NEW FACES' began in the shed McGlade constructed in London (unbeknown, several years before lockdown).

McGlade needed a studio for his connoisseur’s collection of vintage cameras, analogue development, a stuffed fox, and flowers rummaged from bins at Covent Garden Market, used as frames for shoots, then hung upside down to dry.The shed became a poetic bridge between Jason’s past life of shooting fashion campaigns and new faces for modelling agencies, and finding creative exorcism from the death and illness that had plagued him, until beginning this project.
It was when he found an old box of Polaroid, and asked himself what he was gonna do with the last box - the last box ever to be made, that a mirror began to BLAKE’S  'Songs of Innocence and Experience'.

Like any of McGlade’s projects, 'DEAD FLOWERS // NEW FACES' is unique, expanding to new worlds with a root in classicism (his commercial work appeared in Vogue Italia, walking the coastline of Albania, Greece, Montenegro and around to Italy (became the Walking the Dog (Hatje Cantz Verlag)).

Working deeper in Berlin, where he is based, photographing creatives and time-lapsing fresh flowers to their demise from a studio in Moabit, the project’s craft expanded, hand-painting prints, preserving dead-stock’s beauty with large format techniques otherwise left in the 20th century, passed on methods, coincidental collisions, laying into a spectrum of materials (from hand-made paper to concrete), negatives over positives, rephotographing, chasing serendipity, through the magic of mistakes that the digital world seldom allows.

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Martin J Tickner

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Jason McGlade

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