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Exclusive Release
Limited Edition Fine Art Prints of 'Wildflowers Picked with Bea' by Brendan BarryBlack Box Projects is delighted to announce the exclusive release of limited edition fine art prints of the celebrated series - Wildflowers Picked with Bea - by British artist Brendan Barry.This exclusive release marks a critical moment as Wildflowers Picked with Bea is the first time Brendan Barry has made his one-of-a-kind camera obscura photographs available as a limited edition prints, offering collectors and art lovers alike a rare opportunity to own a piece of this artist's creative vision.This series was first presented by Black Box Projects in Spring 2021 as unique paper negatives made by the artist's handmade camera obscura. Wildflowers Picked with Bea captures a quiet moment of beauty and time, where nature, innocence and memory intertwine. The series evokes a sense of nostalgia and peace, drawing from Barry’s intimate connection with the natural world and family in his intricate, evocative style. The delicate yet vibrant depiction of British wildflowers, paired with the tender reference to a shared moment with “Bea,” invites viewers into a space of calm reflection. -
Wildflowers Picked on Walks with Bea
As for many of us during the uncertain times of Covid and global lockdown, walking had been a key respite for the artist, as well as a means of reconnecting with nature and discovering the beauty right on his doorstep. His series -Wildflowers picked on walks with Bea - arose from his daily walks with his young daughter. They started picking wildflowers, bringing them home and arranging them into still lives, which would be then captured using a camera obscura and darkroom that Barry had constructed out of his garden shed.The emerging series touches on many themes including: family, health & wellbeing, reconnecting with nature, exploration of personal space and appreciating one's immediate surroundings. By shooting directly on to photographic paper with a camera obscura and using a meticulously developed colour reversal method, the artist creates large scale unique works that are the results of a lengthy and laborious process in the darkroom. The photographs are hard to achieve, with successful exposure times sometimes taking up to eight hours. This time spent with the process of making is not only an opportunity to engage with artistry of analogue photography, but also a time of solitude and peacefulness to observe the bird song of the night and the various flora and fauna that had previously gone unnoticed. -
Print and Edition Details
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Archival pigment print on PhotoRag paper from original Unique Chromogenic Image
20 x 16 inches (on 24 x 20 in paper), Edition of 7 + 2AP -
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Archival pigment print on PhotoRag paper from original Unique Chromogenic Image
40 x 30 inches, Edition of 3 +2AP -
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ABOUT THE ARTIST / BRENDAN BARRY
Brendan Barry is a photographer, educator and camera builder, whose practice combines elements of construction, education, performance and participation. His work is mostly concerned with the transformation of different objects and environments into spaces capable of viewing and capturing a photographic image. Using the mechanics of the medium, he challenges the conventional understanding of the photographic apparatus as a means of inviting audience collaboration and exploration.
He is the founder & director of Positive Light Projects, a not-for-profit organisation using photography to engage and inspire a diverse range of audiences and communities as well as developing emerging photographers and aiding them move their practise forward in exciting and innovative ways.
The artist graduated from an MA in Photography at Plymouth University in 2012. His work encompasses the roles of artist, educator/facilitator, and producer, with the boundaries between the three often blurring. Barry's work has been published in the British Journal of Photography, It's Nice That, The Photographers' Gallery, Photoworks, My Modern Met and Colossal, amongst others. The artist lives and works in Exeter, England.
