Ollie Kendrick is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in photography, video and installation. Having studied moving image practices, his work seeks to distill objects in the space of the gallery, utilising the philosophical frameworks of these mediums.

With a research background in the potential of psycho-geography as an artistic practice, the subject of his work often finds its elaboration within architecture and the psychic landscapes that encompass his subjects. Whilst capturing these ‘landscapes’, new image spaces are created, and new possibilities arise for the reinterpretation of objects as vectors of desire, anxiety, grief and boredom.

He focuses on sites of collective emotion within contemporary housing and post industrial spaces confronting history with a surrealist-realist lens. Taking inspiration from the film work of Patrick Keiller, in which images are narrated in absentia in order to allow an unfolding of hidden forces, the artist aims to occupy a threshold between sleeping and waking, between new and old.

During his time at Glogauair, Kendrick has been reanimating industrial objects in the service of narratives around boredom and grief. These objects will interact and elaborate current photography practices and research that he has been undertaking during the past year in London and Mexico City.