Light Struck: Ellen Carey
Ellen Carey, Crush & Pull with Hands, Penlights & Spruce Needles, 12 Polaroids, 2023.
Ellen Carey
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, England
May 2023 - March 2024
Light Struck by Ellen Carey opens as a visual vade mecum at the Fox Talbot Museum in May 2023. Her handbook guides us through photography’s nearly two centuries’ arc of: light, photogram, colour, and Polaroid seen in her dual practices, Photography Degree Zero (1996-2023) and Struck by Light (1988 – 2023). Carey’s Light Struck takes the viewer through two centuries of photographic play and discovery. Showcasing key pieces from her career, the exhibition also features a completely new artwork (2023) created in response to one of Talbot’s 19th-century photograms titled: Crush & Pull with Hands, Penlights & Spruce Needles. Many of the artworks in Light Struck are from the artist’s collection on exhibit for the first time in England.
