‘As a child I would often draw detailed imaginary worlds, I don’t think I ever grew out of seeing the world in that way’

Ashley Gallant presents work from his ongoing project unloud.

Gallant attempts to photograph a feeling of unease, a sense of ancientness, something just below the surface. Images of landscape, portraits of people involved in historic traditions and images of religious sculpture present us with Gallant’s own perception of the unloud, a little English Magic.

Gallant splits his time between being the curator of the Ruskin Collection, Millennium Gallery Sheffield and undertaking a PhD in the history of Art at the University of Nottingham. His PhD challenges copyright law to make works of art in public ownership more usable, it imagines a new world for museums.

He has worked in museums for the past twelve years and has curated exhibitions on Henry Moore, Picasso, Lewis Baltz and Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth House. In 2012 he was awarded the Contemporary Art Society annual award for Museums, delivering one of the first projects to 3D scan and give away free of copyright a museums sculpture collection.

As an artist he has had exhibitions in Grimsby, London, Tokyo, Munich, Berlin, Nuremberg, Karlsruhe and Nottingham.

His work Green Man has recently been collected by Nottingham Castle Museum.

Website: www.ashleygallant.co.uk
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