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Georgia Merton
Georgia Merton's practice explores the relationship between landscape, memory and material process, through the medium of cyanotype. Working with her own photographs, found natural materials and direct contact processes, she creates images shaped by light, time and chemical reaction, allowing environmental conditions to play an active role in their formation.
Rather than documenting landscape directly, she is interested in how place is experienced through atmosphere, scale and the shifting qualities of light. Natural forms and the human figure recur throughout her work, acting as points of connection between the physical environment and lived experience.
The use of natural toning processes and hand-worked interventions, including chalk and gold leaf, forms an integral part of her practice. These interventions extend the material language of the work, exploring transformation and the tension between permanence and transience embedded within the cyanotype process itself.
Her work moves beyond the documentary image, creating spaces where place is understood as an accumulation of encounters rather than a fixed view.
“Re-imagining objects through my camera lens, and seeing nature through the eyes of my young children, generates new perspectives with which I celebrate the playful innocence of quotidian marvels.” - Georgia Merton
