Cheryl Garner's photography practice approaches the camera not as a device for capturing fixed moments, but as a relational instrument that situates the body within an expanded landscape. The act of photographing becomes a form of attunement - an ongoing negotiation of distance, proximity and presence. The images function less as documents and more as spatial traces of intersubjective experiences. Photography becomes a means of mapping lived, intimate geographies: the atmospheres of space and the silent exchanges that constitute non-verbal communication.
Garner explores illustrative strategies that focus fragmentation, layering and repetition, allowing the page to function as a site - through this approach illustration becomes an expanded landscape - one capable of expressing the non-verbal or pre-verbal interactions and of articulating relational landscapes that unfold through proximity and mutual presence.
Journey from Skipton - Leeds and Leeds - Skipton (2013)
Telephone Box (2013)
Hallway (2013-14)
Light Shade (2013-14)
Room 4 Sketchbook explorations (2013-14)
Hands Exploring illustrative mark-making and photography (2013-14)
Telephone Box Film Exhibition (2014) - Subject and Encounter. breath, rhythm, gesture and interruption - and reflect the fluidity of communication. In place of linear narrative, this explores strategies that focus fragmentation, layering and repetition, allowing function as a site where emotional and sensory experiences accumulate over time.
