Megan Ringrose Oxfordshire, United Kingdom

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Megan Ringrose is an Oxford-based artist. Her practice experiments with the materiality of the photographic surface. She works with plants to create her photographic works.Her aesthetic is often characterised by the study of light and time, influenced by alternative photographic process.The artist is currently researching historical photographic emulsions.

Megan Ringrose’s work is grounded in research of the fundamental properties of photography: light, time, process and materiality. This fascination with the link between the history of photography and contemporary abstract photography is her main inspiration. She looks back into photographic archives to create new works within a contemporary context.

The research starts with elemental thinking about photography and it’s definition. Revisiting the traditional processes is an important stage in her journey to better understand the wet processes that significantly underpin our understanding of photography as a medium. This intersection of fine art and the dawn of photography serves as a significant point of research for Ringrose. Historically, photography served to reproduce reality repetitively, therefore a reductive art form, with the invention of the negative by Fox Talbot in 1835.

Ringrose strives to create unique images that turn against the traditional reproductivity of photography. Inspired by many movements, the colour field movement is of particular interest where “colour is freed from objective context and becomes the subject in itself.” In a similar way Ringrose works with process, light, time and colour as subject.