East, London
Adam Waymouth
The In-Between
Roman Road"Make mistakes, learn from ’em, and when life hurts you—because it will—remember the hurt. The hurt is good. It means you're out of that cave. But please, if you don't mind, for the sake of your poor old dad, keep the door open three inches." —David Harbour as Jim Hopper, Stranger Things (S3: Ch 8), 2019 With a focus on positive and negative space, looking at ‘ma’, an ancient Japanese concept of negative space, Adam Waymouth’s work references Shintoism and through this an understanding of his own experience of grief and death. "There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors." —Jim Morrison, Tagline to The Doors Documentary, 1991 Presented at Roman Road, Waymouth’s solo exhibition The In-Between is a playful exploration of light and line, black and white. Through his latest photographic body of work made from dried and decaying botanical forms, he tests the boundaries and limitations of how little one can show to open the door to infinite imaginations. "Black and white are the colors of photography. To me, they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected." —Robert Frank, Aperture, 1961 Adam Waymouth (b. 1981, London) is a British artist working with painting and photography. He completed his BA at City & Guilds of London Art School in 2003. After spending 15 years working as a curator and gallery director, Waymouth did a six-month artist residency in Egypt, which inspired a new direction in his photography. Painting his studio roof white and playing with the reflection of the sunlight to light his subjects, this body of work looks at decay and the delicate alchemy of process.