The Writing of Stones

Gin Rimmington Jones

17th September - 31st October 2020

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Argentea Gallery is excited to announce that it is re-opening on Thursday, 17th September with The Writing of Stones, a solo exhibition by photographic artist Gin Rimmington Jones.

You can learn more and view an online exhibition version here if you are unable to visit us in person

Scroll down to view our film with the artist below

After the hiatus of the last few months, this exhibition of black and white photographs of a remote, semi-desert region in Southern Spain, speaks to the appreciation of, and perhaps intensified relationship with, the natural world and suspension of time.  Taking inspiration from Roger Caillois’ book of the same name, The Writing of Stones reveals a poetic and philosophical encounter with the earth and its surfaces, where the intersecting narratives of humans and the natural world are writ large in its stones.

This striking body of work is the result of two artist residencies at Joya-AiR, Almeria, Spain in 2019 and 2020 where Rimmington Jones photographed the hot, bone-white terrain of the imposing marble quarries and deserted, dry-baked gorge of the Los Gasquez region.  Working daily in quiet solitude she felt as though she “had been walking with the soul of the earth, where the solemnity of these lithic spaces puts the brevity of our human season into context.”

Rimmington Jones has had a deep connection to stones throughout her life:

“I have collected stones my whole life, as if in their weight and density the curvature of time is made manifest. When you hold a stone it is as if you are holding time.”

Gin Rimmington Jones is a photographic artist based in Brighton. She graduated with an MA in Photography from Brighton University in 2018. Her series Somewhere among us a stone is taking notes, which was longlisted for the Jerwood/Photoworks Award, will also be shown as a complement to the main exhibition.  She was the winner of the inaugural Metro Imaging/Satori Mentoring Award 2019/20.

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