2024, c-type print mounted on aluminium, custom tray frame, 30x23,5 cm, 3 + 1 AP

David Penny is an artist from Manchester. His practice is informed through an interest in expanded approaches to photography, materiality, objects and their images. Recent projects have been developed on location and in response to specific spaces of production and research, such as a tapestry studio and an archaeological excavation. The works presented at Manchester Contemporary are taken from two different projects, both using handmade, analogue, photographic processes.

A series of abstract photographic prints have been made without the use of a camera, recording light from within a nanophotonics lab at Kings College London. Sheets of photographic film interrupt or are placed in proximity to high-powered lasers that are shaped and directed around a system built for nanomaterials research.