Kirsten Reynolds @ Art Bermondsey Project Space

Kirsten Reynolds is an English artist whose current work uses photography, painting, printmaking and sound / light installation to re-interpret classical themes relating to landscape, nature and the environment. Preferring to work off the beaten track, Reynolds chooses significant locations to make nocturnal light drawings that capture dynamic traces of the artist’s movements in response to each specific landscape. Reynolds approach is unique approach and her background in music and sound art makes her intuitive physical response to the chosen location both compelling and powerful.
‘The photographs record her explorations of place and time through drawing, as she weaves skeins of light before the lens, sometimes white, sometimes coloured. Her trajectory leaves traces whose shapes shift from transparent, through opaque, to sinuous, web-fine lines with the tensile strength of steel.  The resulting landscape produces an extraordinary natural event: the aurora borealis, or freak electrical activity.’