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From the subtlest explorations of tone to rich explosions of colour and pattern, Justine Varga’s series Accumulate (2014/2015) expands our expectations of photographic abstraction. Collaging the gallery walls with prints, her reductive style isn’t abandoned but intensified. The show is accumulative in every sense; film, paper and personal moments are layered, echoed and repeated. Some prints accumulate dense layers through multiple exposures. Others are camera-less…

Like stepping inside a kid’s kaleidoscope, Kaleidorama is a spectacle of experiments with colour. Filled with an evolving ensemble of artworks and practices, and embracing a similar spirit of investigation and fun, Stills Gallery becomes a kaleidoscopic play of colours and forms. From darkroom experiments to digital aesthetics, the scientific and serendipitous, the old and now, combine, overlay and interplay. Here, like a primary-school lesson in colour theory, the gallery is a l…

Each December Stills Gallery features a show of selected Stills artists. The theme for Season 2014 is continuity and divergence. There are twelve artists with a highly diverse range of practices that reflect both the history (of the gallery and of photography itself) and the diversity with which photography has developed in unprecedented ways over the last twenty years. Steven Lojewski’s series Populace was one of the first exhibitions at Stills when it began in 1991. The…

Justine Varga’s images contain silence, space and peace, bringing a sense of the sublime inside, to the minutiae of the everyday. They aren’t simply made in her studios, so much as made with them. The ephemera that accumulates in her workspace, the surfaces, textures and temperaments that seem to change with the daily cycles of natural light, provide both the setting and subject for her images. Sounding Silence reduces these elements to the very periphery o…

JUSTINE VARGA"MOVING OUT"10 October to 10 November 2012Opening Sat 13 October, 3-5pmJustine Varga creates imagery that is minimal and sublime. Although she uses analogue techniques and works with great control of the craft, the results seem liberated from their medium to become more akin to abstract paintings. The delicate and balanced compositions evidence Varga’s obvious delight in the idiosyncrasies of light and film.Varga …