In to the wild night with Jasper Goodall

Jasper Goodall is a photographer who was requested by the community, with good reason! His work is absolutely superb and I am very much looking forward to his first presentation with us!

About Jasper:

Jasper’s practice is rooted in the imaginary; he uses the natural landscape as source material which is altered either through the use of light, physical intervention or reconstruction of natural elements to make a photograph. This alteration transforms real spaces into ‘make believe’ places that draw on folktale, myth and our conceptions of the Otherworld.

The works seek to elicit contradictory feelings of unease and reverence for nature by engaging with the uncanny and drawing on the concept of the sublime as understood by 19th century Romanticism. Goodall’s nocturnal photographs have been described as being at once beautiful and terrifying. They are an attempt to capture the stillness and solitude of the night and to draw attention to a sense of the quiet, abiding presence of the natural world.

Goodall takes an experimental approach to his practice. Many of his works employ composites made from very long exposures; lighting scenes from varied angles or creating misty backgrounds with large scrims. Several exposures of the same scene will be combined in post production to create the final images.

In addition to his artist practice, Goodall teaches creativity and visual communication. He is a senior lecturer at the University of Brighton where he has taught generations of visual communicators for over 20 years.

From Jasper:

I shall discuss my motivations - what made me start taking pictures at night. Then what I find so compelling about it and how shooting at night enables me to articulate a feeling that is a mix of reverence and disquiet more than I would be able to using daylight shooting. I’ll talk about how childhood influences have re-surfaced after a long time sitting in the bottom of my unconscious and how these have directed the work I make now.

This talk will be recorded and made available for four weeks