Still Formation by Jess Gough at 10 14 Gallery

The first solo exhibition by photographic artist Jess Gough, drawn from eight years of work – a close study of landscape across darkroom prints and photopolymer etchings.

A world accumulates, image by image. This is a place of strange, sweet light, where fog bewilders, caves beckon and smoke curls out of craters. Landscape is not what it seems. A certain liquidity pervades. Viewpoints tilt. Glaciers slurp. Pathways gleam.

Drawn from eight years of work, Jess Gough’s photographs describe a world in transition, where matter is unsettled and everything slips between states: clotted shorelines, pearly ridges and rocks that appear gelatinous. Curious openings appear in earth and metal, where natural and human-made forms echo one another in a shared vocabulary.

In Still Formation, darkroom prints sit alongside photopolymer etchings and their iridescent metal plates – part image, part relic – each a sustained study of materiality, following surfaces until the familiar tips into the unknown.

Accompanied by a text by the writer Izabella Scott.