Alice Walton & Anna Lucas

Tintype is pleased to present Together With Them She Went, a collaboration between Alice Walton and Anna Lucas.

Anna Lucas and Alice Walton have been working on a collaborative strand of practice since 2016, exploring the notion of ‘alongside looking’, a looking with and in conversation.

Anna Lucas makes photographs and films, Alice Walton works with found photographic images. Both have honed their understanding of the investment made by the viewer when an image is framed, processed, and presented.

"We share an interest in movement – and fundamentally we’re interested in how another person looks or sees, and the challenge of ever precisely knowing or embodying that view.”

Together With Them She Went presents a series of films they have made together using Walton’s extensive found-image archive. The films are presented within sculptural installations where the use of reflective and translucent materials draw the viewer into becoming an active element of the work.

The female body is a recurring subject, sometimes appearing as a sculpture, on a stage or in a rehearsal space along with the elements of drapes and windows, light and shade. The simple gesture of turning pages, creates a quietly hypnotic engagement of shared looking and touch. Sound creates space, alluding to an off-screen narrative; footsteps over the floor, a window opening - distant sounds that ebb and flow throughout.

An essay by Joyce Cronin, Co-Director of The Bower, accompanies the exhibition.

Anna Lucas is an artist filmmaker whose films are distributed by Lux, UK. Screenings and exhibitions include, One Second Feature, The Gallery, Leicester, Art School; Anthology Film Archives, New York; Tate Gallery, London; Workshop, Tate Exchange, London, Opi 21, Oopsy Daisy, Tiger Lily; Essex Road Commission, Tintype Gallery, London; Adrift Chisenhale Gallery, London; Here and your here; Fact, Liverpool. She has been Henry Moore Fellow exhibiting Bud at Spike Island, Bristol and made Demonstration 50.15 whilst Wellcome Trust Fellow at Oxford University. She recently co-curated (Edges of) a close/d screening as part of We Are publication, Stanley Picker Gallery and From an ox to an egg, Little City Studio, Phoenix, Leicester.

Alice Walton is an artist living and working in London, represented by Tintype. Eternal, Pas de deux, Plie with Anna Lucas was screened at Late at Tate St Ives, 2018. Selected exhibitions include: Almost All the Girls Raise Their Hands, Tintype, London; Except the Mirror, Format Festival International Photography, Derby; Not Her Real Name, Tintype, London; An Unnatural Theatre, Aid & Abet, Cambridge; Album2, Five Years, London; Black Rabbit, White Hole, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles; London Art Fair (Art Projects).