FAIR MAY
Presented by Hi-Noon editions
FAIR MAY
Presented by Hi-Noon editions
Friday 2nd May - Sunday 15th June ‘25
HI-NOON is an artist-led platform for curated photographic works in unique limited editions. Inspired by the culture of support and co-operation that thrives in artistic communities around the world,
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Melanie Issaka
Locating The Personal is a series of photograms; self-portraits that set out to question the representation of the Black female figure within the Western canon of photography. Through encounters with material, I mark my presence. In negotiating between personal levels of visibility, I claim space. In making these images, bodily surfaces such as hands are illuminated, simultaneously being brought in and out of focus. The prints bear the physical traces of the artist’s physical interaction with the material.
Melanie Issaka is a visual artist living and working in London, UK. Specialising in image making, her work addresses issues of representation, history, and language with regard to the intersectionality of race, gender, and class.
Since her graduation in 2022 from the RCA with an MA in Photography, Issaka’s work has received a solo presentation at Photo Basel, as well as a solo exhibition at Gallery Peter Sillem, Frankfurt, Germany. In 2023 she was invited to present her work at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London and won acclaim for her presentation at Peckham 24 in London.
Photogram 1
Framed / 90 x 40 cm / £1,170.00
Photogram 2
Framed / 90 x 40 cm / £1,170.00
Photogram 3
Framed / 90 x 40 cm / £1,170.00
Yushi Li
Yushi Li (born China, 1991) is an award winning artist based in London.
Yushi Li’s work has garnered international praise, through her interrogation of the nature of the gaze, turning the tables, or lens more aptly, from male to female-centric.
Since graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in photography in 2018, her work has been exhibited in group and solo exhibitions around the world including Fotogalleri Vasli Souza, Malmo, Sweden; Summerhall Edinburgh, UK; Houses of Parliament, London, UK; Bloomberg New Contemporaries (South London Gallery), London, UK; Pingyao International Photography Festival, China.
Leda and the Swan 2022
Edition: 2/3
Hand Printed C-type Print
Framed / 92 x 118 cm / £7,440.00 inc VAT
The Feast, interior
Other Editions Available
Analogue Handprint / Signed by Artist on Verso Framed / 32 x 40 cm / £1,185.00 inc VAT
Eva Stenram
In Eva Stenram’s work bodies are often fragmented and fuse with their surroundings, camouflaging or becoming a part of an interior or landscape. In Home Town the body of a nude model has been partially covered by a new textile pattern constructed from the photographed fabric that the woman’s body rests upon. Home Town is part of a series of works, collectively titled Offcut , that reconfigures details from found vintage erotic photographs and renders them in a new, often material form.
Eva Stenram (Stockholm / Berlin) frequently works with vintage erotica. She collects negatives, slides and men’s magazines from the post-war era; this collection has become both a source of inspiration and her raw working material. The photographs are sometimes scanned, sometimes re-photographed, and subsequently changed through digital, analogue or physical manipulation. Her work is ultimately about being a viewer, a consumer of images.
Stenram’s work has been exhibited worldwide, important exhibitions include Bodyfiction, A Handful of Dust curated by David Campany, and Home Sweet Home at the 2019 Rencontres d’Arles, Monochrome at Ravestijn Gallery and Die Bienale für Aktuelle Fotografie 2020 , in Mannheim, Ludwigshafen and Heidelberg, Germany. Recent solo exhibitions took place at Fotografisk Center in Copenhagen, Denmark and New Meridians at Literaturhaus in Berlin.
– Town
Silver Gelatin Print
Framed / 34 x 26 cm / £750.00 inc VAT
Harry Grundy
Four flower models, downloaded from online CAD libraries, have been imported on top of one another and rotated around their centre points, creating a composition of flowers that are neither dead nor alive. The original CAD model is available via a barcode stamped on the print’s certificate of authenticity.
Harry Grundy is interested in contemporary culture’s hunger for instant gratification, the climate emergency and the responsibility of artists as makers. The tension that arises from our species’ brutalisation of Earth to meet our industrialized vision is interrogated in Grundy’s designs and art works. Grundy has exhibited in Beijing, London and Venice and guest tutored at Kingston University and London College of Communication. Recent works have been developed at the Fabrica Research Centre Treviso, Italy.
Softened Hardware Matte C-type Print Framed / 62 x 44 / £720.00 inc VAT
Sophy Rickett
Sophy Rickett is a visual artist working with photography, video installation and text. Much of her work has explored the tension between the narrative tendencies and abstract possibilities of the photographic image.
Born 1970, London, UK, Rickett studied at the Royal College of Art. Solo and two-person exhibitions include Everything Is A Bird (with Bettina von Zwehl), Laure Genillard Gallery, London (2021), Cupid and the Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows , Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea (2019), Album 31 and other works (with Bettina von Zwehl), Fotogalleriet, Oslo and Library of Birmingham (2015), Objects in the Field , Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge. Recent artist’s books include The Curious Moaning of Kenfig Burrows (GOST, 2019) (shortlisted for the 2020 Krazsna Kraus Awards) and The Death of a Beautiful Subject (GOST, 2015).
Rickett’s work is included in many collections internationally including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Government Art Collection, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; FRAC Alsace, Sélestat; Musée des Beaux Art, Nantes; Museum of Visual Arts, Leipzig; and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaundengo, Turin.
12/50
Vauxhall Bridge 1995-2022 Edition:
Black & White Bromide Print
Framed / 25 x 20 cm / £540.00 inc VAT
The Death of a Beautiful Subject Series, 2015 Black & White Bromide Print Framed / 21 x 21 x 3 cm / £600.00 inc VAT
Edition: 10/50 Other Editions Available
The Death of a Beautiful Subject Series, 2015 Black & White Bromide Print Framed / 21 x 21 x 3 cm / £600.00 inc VAT
Comma on Bracken
Tree (divided) Margam Mountain 2019
Black & White Silver Bromide Print
Framed / 52 x 68 cm / £3,600.00 inc VAT
Tree (Kenfig Burrows)
Black & White Silver Bromide Print
Framed / 47 x 34 cm / £3,600.00 inc VAT
Woman/ Observation (5) 1998 / 2019
Young
Black & White Silver Bromide Print
Framed / 28 x 42 cm / £3,600.00 inc VAT
Thin Fluid
Giclee Print
Framed / 38 x 31 cm / £2,100.00 inc
Jonny Briggs
Extramission Hearing consists of a photograph of the artist’s father as a child, into which which the artist has inserted his own ear. The photograph and the frame are cut from the point of the ear. The title links to the ‘extramission’ theory of vision - the once commonly held belief that instead of light entering the eye, invisible tendrils came out that would physically touch an object to see it (to touch with a look, leading to myths like the basilisk, Medusa etc). This image points towards a role reversal: an ear that can touch, that can destroy.
Since finishing his studies at the Royal College of Art, London in 2011 Jonny Briggs has gained significant esteem for his radical and playful work. He has received numerous awards including Saatchi New Sensations 2011, Foam Talent 2014 and a NESTA Creative Sparks Award. A recent site specific installation in Burgh House and Hampstead Museum and solo exhibition at the Photoforum Pasquart Photography Museum in Switzerland 2017 were received with acclaim. His work has been included in numerous group shows internationally, including Shanghai Centre of Photography, The Benaki Museum in Greece, Jerwood Space and Photographers’ Gallery in London, The Mark Rothko Centre in Latvia, L’Atelier Néerlandais in Paris, Centre Photographique in Normandy, The Marta Herford Museum in Germany, Fondazione Fotografia Modena, Hauser & Wirth Somerset and East Wing Gallery in Dubai.
Bowei Yang
The artist writes about Zhang and the other side of a butterfly ; “The shadow of collective identity is where the individual identity lies. By gazing at the fragility of one’s shadow, one can accept the surroundings like a fluttering butterfly.”
Bowei Yang (b.1994 Hangzhou China) is an artist based in Beijing and London. His work explores the queer scene in China, through the lens of staged memories of his childhood.
Bowei Yang received his Bachelor’s Degree in Photography from Beijing Film Academy and his MA from the Royal College of Art in London in 2019.
Honoured as one of the Foam Talents 2021 Yang has exhibited his work internationally, including in China, France, Japan and the UK.
9/20
Zhang and the other side of a butterfly
Silver Bromide Print
Framed / H29 x W23 cm / £705.00
Sarah Dobai
Sarah Dobai’s practice is based in photography, film, publication and performance. Recent work has focussed on re-enacting and repurposing historical works of literature or cinema as a means to animate present-day concerns. She is interested in exploring the central position of photography and cinema in relation to questions of representation, realism and authorship. Recent solo exhibitions and projects include at The Donkey Field at Danielle Arnaud, Imperial War Museum, CAST (Helston), Glassyard Gallery (Budapest) and BALTIC, Gateshead, Principles & Deception at Or Gallery (Vancouver) and FILET (Hoxton) and Bees in a Hive of Glass in TANK (2018) & Whitsable Biennale. Group shows include Home and Abroad, Olomouc Museum of Contemporary Art, The Vanishing Point in History with Matthew Buckingham, Lina Selander and Uriel Orlow for L’ete Photographique de Lectoure, City Lives at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, The London Open (Whitechapel Gallery)(2012), On the Nature of Things, Kamloops Art Gallery, Troubled Water, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Theatres of the Real, FotoMuseum Antwerp, Belgium; Darkside II, FotoMuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and Twenty Second Hold & Studio/ Location Photographs, Works/Projects, Bristol, Sarah Dobai: Photographs & Film works, Kettles Yard, Cambridge, Above the City, Artist’s Space, New York, Sodium Dreams, Bard College, New York, September Horse, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago di Compostella.
Harri with Earphones
Ramona Güntert
Ramona Güntert, (b. 1989) is a German artist based in London. Her practice looks at forms and shapes within nature which are mimicked by bodies of human and animals. She then uses the medium of photography, challenging its existence in print and exploring different material conditions. Her work is constantly transforming and adapting to different spaces, just like camouflage, which emphasises a relationship between the body and its environment but also attempts to question what lies in-between these spaces. These images appear in layers, becoming the skin of the space.
Güntert is interested how such images exist in reality, and how they can slip between repulsion and desire. And ultimately appear as fiction. Her process of image making, is about creating a feeling or a taste of something with the intention making an audience think about their own body and their relationship to others.
Recent exhibitions include Museum Winterthur, Parallel Platform, Lisboa, Format Festival Derby, Hamburg Triennale, Landskronafoto, Organ Vida Zagreb.
Earth, Aether, Light 2024
Silver Gelatin Handprint Framed / 43 x 48 cm / £840.00 inc VAT
Rut Blees Luxemburg
Rut Blees Luxemburg is renowned for her photographic work that deals with the representation of the city and the phenomenon of the luminous.
Her work has been shown in landmark exhibitions such as elles @ centrepompidou curated by Camille Morineau and A Handful of Dust curated by David Campany. Solo exhibitibions include Phantom at Tate Liverpool and London Dust at the Museum of London. Her large-scale public work Silver Forest - a photographic urban landscape in cast concrete - is part of the façade of Westminster City Hall in London.
Blees Luxemburg’s photographs are held in many public and private collections including Tate London, V&A Museum, London, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia. She is Professor in Urban Aesthetics at the Royal College of Art and created the iconic cover for The Streets’ Original Pirate Material.
Edition: 55/100
Other Editions Available
London- A Moder Project, High-Rise
1995-2024
Analog Darkroom Print / Signed by Artist on Verso Framed / 28 x 32 cm / £990.00 inc VAT
Ledoux’s Donkey 2020
Photograph Cast in Concrete 10 x 15 cm / £585.00 inc VAT
Chooc Ly Tan
French-born Afro / Vietnamese / Cambodian artist, DJ, producer & lecturer in Fine Art. As an artist, her practice sets out to use systems or tools that are used to understand the world, such as logic or physics, but subvert them to suggest new visions of reality. Ly Tan has had solo exhibitions at FILET (London) Carlos / Ishikawa (London) Circa Projects (Newcastle) and Transmission Gallery (Glasgow). As a DJ, Ly Tan presents a varied selection forging astral connections through spectrums of Techno, Afrotrap, Gqom, Acid, futuristic Chaabi , high-voltage Electro through to fusions we haven’t found names for yet.
She has recently performed at Chale Wote Festival (Accra, Ghana), Tate Modern (London), the Living Art Museum (Reykjavik), Apocalypse / Rave (Oslo), Corsica Studios (London) and Villa Empain (Brussels).
“Recently, I was thinking of the notions of “rave” (-party), “rêve” (dream) and “révolution” (revolution) and how they could cross etymologically and socio-politically. Immediately, among the few common denominators that emerged, I could quote: “transgression”, “optimism”, “collective experience (and transformation)”. Here is a photo-montage composed of a self-portrait – me at high altitude (holding a handrail), with the presence of Europa, the scribbled moon orbiting Jupiter. The piece also features hand-drawn creatures that face existential, gravitational, and cosmic challenges. At the heart of this composition is a call to action and a tribute to activists, especially those who have had to fight white colonisers and supremacists.”
Chooc Ly Tan (2019)
Rêve, Rave et Révolution
C-type
Liz Orton
Liz Orton is a visual artist working with photography, found images, text and performance to explore the relationship between images and authorship. Her work engages widely with archives, both real and imagined, to explore the tensions between personal and scientific forms of knowledge.
Liz was a Lecturer in Photography at London College of Communication, and Associate Artist with Performing Medicine but is on a sabbatical from teaching due to illness. She has a background in participatory photography and ran numerous projects for the charity PhotoVoice, the Photographers’ Gallery, The Refugee Council and other community organisations.
She is the recipient of several awards including the Mead Fellowship, a UCL Challenge Award and a Wellcome Trust Arts award. She has published two artist books, including Every Body is an Archive , and is editor of the collection of essays Becoming Image: Medicine and the Algorithmic Gaze . Recently her work and writing have featured in Notes Journal, Routledge’s Performance and Medicine, Trigger, Tendon and Source Photographic Review. She exhibits regularly with upcoming shows at City Racing (with Sophy Ricketts) and at Microscope.
Chasing Intensities i 2022
C-type Print, Metallic, Dry Mounted on Aluminium 40 x 33 cm / £2,100.00 inc VAT
Chasing Intensities ii 2022
C-type Print, Metallic, Dry Mounted on Aluminium 40 x 33 cm / £2,100.00 inc VAT
Chasing Intensities iii 2022
C-type Print, Metallic, Dry Mounted on Aluminium 40 x 33 cm / £2,100.00 inc VAT
Margarita Gluzberg
The work of Margarita Gluzberg often explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Gluzberg’s practice ranges from drawing, photography, and performance to sound and film installation while drawing upon historical events and semi-biographical stories in its content, form, and presentation.
Margarita Gluzberg studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. Solo exhibitions include Otherwhere , Alma Pearl Gallery, Proper Time , Karsten Schubert, London (2022); For Children Not For Children , Filet Space, London (2018). Her work has been presented at major contemporary art spaces including the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; The British School at Rome; and Drawing Room, London. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Art Review, London Review of Books and Frieze Magazine, amongst others.
Photosphere 2022
Drawing on Photographic Paper
Framed / 30 x 25 cm / £1,800.00 inc VAT
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