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This exhibition showcases four award-winning photographers and filmmakers undertaking ground-breaking work in their practices of eco-conscious photography and film. With a particular focus on their relationship with materials, process and methodologies, their works marry both the political and the poetic.

Exhibiting artists: 

Almudena Romero uses photography to explore ways of representing, seeing, and understanding. Romero’s works focus how art shapes perception, using naturally occurring photographic processes including photoperiodicity, photobleaching and photosynthesis.

Edd Carr’s material-led practice focuses on creating and utilising sustainable alternatives to photographic processes. He uses these methods create films that comment on the human relationship to ecological crisis and the mass extinction of life, and the resulting trauma we face as a species.

Hannah Fletcher works with organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms and roots which she transforms into photographic mediums and surfaces. She incorporates waste from her studio back into her work, contributing to a cyclical system of making.

Scott Hunter‘s practice fuses photography, sculpture, and installation. His work focuses on developing alternative approaches to the toxic methods of analogue photography by exploring the origins of raw materials and their symbiotic relationships within the construction of images.

This exhibition is supported by Pasqua Wines

The title of this exhibition is taken from Luke Hannam’s drawing How to Make a Head, 2024 , a head seemingly constructed from rectangular blocks. Not intended as a portrait of an existing person in the traditional sense, the work assembles life from scratch to create a humanoid form.

In this spirit of alchemy, all the artists in the exhibition have been handed the force of Prometheus, to blow life-giving fire into inanimate materials. The figures, bodies and body-parts seem to be in the process of coming alive through the imaginative use of materials and collage. Although they are made-up characters, the inhabitants of this exhibition feel strangely present.

Featured Artists
Dominic Beattie
Paul Cole
Jody DeSchutter
Tim Ellis
Lucy Evetts
Luke Hannam
James Alec Hardy
Harry Jones
Alec Kronacker
Tom Shedden
Robert Welch
Poppy Whatmore
Anisa Zahedi
Neil Zakiewicz

This exhibition is curated by Dominic Beattie.

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Join us to celebrate Nature’s Bounty, where an enchanting 8-metre floating table adorned with a vibrant tapestry of forest leaves sets the scene for a floral feast. Suspended above, seasonal blooms ascend towards the ceiling where they intertwine with cascading autumn leaves, symbolising the essence of life’s cycles. Crafted consciously by Tom de Houwer using locally grown, fresh-cut flowers from Marlston Farmgirl, this installation beckons viewers to reflect on our bond with nature and our shared responsibility to nurture it.

This exhibition is designed by Tom de Houwer and produced by HERB Flower Studio.

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Saatchi Gallery presents its 2024 RHS Chelsea Flower Show garden with British-Caribbean artist Zak Ové.

Titled Abeba Esse, the garden will depict a Black Diasporic journey, from Africa to the Caribbean, and ultimately the UK. Visitors will be led down a path through changing landscapes, encountering Ové’s Invisible Man sculptures along their journey. The African section reflects the idea of ‘Paradise Found’, which Ové describes as, “An autochthonous verdant, jungle scene, where plant life grows untamed in a raw and natural state.” 

Moving into the Caribbean, visitors will see a change in the native lush flora and fauna of the islands to that of tilled earth with planted crops, typical of slave plantations. The gateway is marked by a change in the path – from the dark soil of the African jungle, to wooden planks that reference the slave ships that carried many through the infamous Middle Passage.

Finally, they will reach a quintessential English garden, featuring the kinds of plants found in stately homes and country houses, indicative of the power and wealth accrued in the UK through slavery. Throughout the garden, botanical labels record the names of historical figures, institutions and corporations who benefited from investments in slavery.

The garden, designed in collaboration with award-winning Garden Designer Dave Green, encourages important conversations about the themes central to Ové’s work – the African Diaspora, contemporary multiculturalism, globalisation, and the blend of politics, tradition, race, and history that informs our identities. Ové stresses that revealing and heralding the histories and skills of those that were rendered invisible is an important part of writing an inclusive history. He comments, “History can and should be accessed in different ways, so as to engage a variety of audiences, and educate and inform through unexpected mediums such as a flower garden.”

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