The Porthleven Prize Residency 2024

The Porthleven Prize Residency is based in the eponymous harbour town and sponsored by the Osborne Trust. Over two rounds in January and March, the 2024 residency allowed a select group of artists to dedicate themselves to the prize's theme, "Provenance".

Much of my photography over the course of the residency was made entirely on site. This involved shooting on a 4x5 field camera, developing film in homemade caffenol or seaweed developer, and contact printing cyanotypes. Additional prints were made in Bath, Somerset, either salt printed using Porthleven sea water, or on traditional darkroom enlargers.

 

The Porthleven Prize Artists presented their work at the Net Loft Gallery in Porthleven, Cornwall in August 2024, and the Michael Pennie Gallery in Bath, Somerset in October 2024.

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