Exhibition

Exile in the Kingdom by Rab Harling

6 Mar 2020 – 3 May 2020

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Friday
10:00 – 14:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 17:00
Thursday
10:00 – 17:00

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Displaced by urban conflict, Rab Harling’s Exile in the Kingdom is a semi-autobiographical tale of exile, told through the prism of a diseased ash tree on a remote Scottish hillside.

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Exile in the Kingdom by Rab Harling

Displaced by urban conflict, Rab Harling’s Exile in the Kingdom is a semi-autobiographical tale of exile, told through the prism of a diseased ash tree on a remote Scottish hillside.

Photographed between 2015 & 2019, Exile in the Kingdom is a timely elegy to Britain’s third most common tree, the ash, which may soon become a rare sight on Britain’s landscape, due to infection by the ash dieback pathogen. Ash dieback (Hymenoscyphus fraxineus) is estimated to affect up to 95% of Britain’s estimated 90 million ash trees.

Exile in the Kingdom is a tranquil and peaceful tale, told in striking contrast to the physical and social displacement of the artist, and the underlying disease destroying Britain’s traditional countryside vistas.

The exhibition comprises of 368 C-type photographs and a short film, photographed over midsummer 2019, exhibited seamlessly on a loop.

I gratefully acknowledge the help of my tireless Border Collie assistants, Shep & Jess, in the making of Exile in the Kingdom.

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Private view: 6th March 2020, 7pm-10pm.

Film screenings: 24th April 2020, 7pm

Viewings are by appointment only and can be arranged by emailing iavor@alisn.org or rabharling@hotmail.com.

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C-type photographic prints (228 x 183mm) are available in a signed & numbered edition of 3 for just £60 each. All proceeds go directly to the artist (0% gallery commission). Support a living artist!

Also available in a handmade walnut frame by Bertram Whitford (365 x 365mm) at £350 each. The full price framed works also support a local artisan frame maker and the gallery.

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Rab Harling

Following periods living in Edinburgh, Stockholm and Paris, Rab Harling (born England 1972) graduated from Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham in 1996 with a BA (Hons.) in Film & Video, specialising in Cinematography. He moved to London in 1997 and freelanced in film & television as a camera technician before focussing his attention on stills photography, allowing him the freedom to pursue and develop the technical training he received in the film industry with his own ideas and passion for experimentation. Awarded an MA in Photography from the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London in 2010, he subsequently pursued large-scale installation projects, working and living in East London’s iconic but controversial Balfron Tower. Witnessing first-hand the brutality with which working-class communities were being “decanted” and displaced by a Registered Social Landlord, working with luxury property developers, he founded Balfron Social Club in 2014 to campaign for the retention of a minimum of 50% social housing in all regeneration projects built in or upon purpose-built social housing communities.

Harling has exhibited, presented artist talks, film screenings and participated in panel debates for the East End Film Festival, Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle, Wellcome Collection, UCL Urban Laboratory, Royal Geographical Society, Diffusion International Photography Festival at Cardiff University, London School of Economics, University of Warwick, Goldsmiths University of London, UCL Slade Research Centre, Focus E15, University of East London, University of Kingston, PEER Gallery, and for Londonist, as part of the Whose London? Festival at the Camden Peoples Theatre, featuring Anna Minton.  

His work has been reviewed in The Art Newspaper, RIBA Journal, The Guardian, Time Out, British Medical Journal, Camden New Journal, the Canary, Colouring in Culture, Journal of Wild Culture, Architecture Today, TANK Magazine and has been debated in the House of Lords by Lord Cashman of Limehouse. He has worked on film & television productions including Football Factory, The Gigolos, Dispossession: the Great Social Housing Swindle, Poirot, Circus, Conspiracy, and many more. Harling’s own films have been screened in museums and galleries over 10,000 times.

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Iavor Lubomirov

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Rab Harling

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