Staged in four venues across the UK, Variations by Felicity Hammond is an evolving installation exploring the relationship between geological mining and data mining, and image-making and machine learning.
The work opens at Photoworks Weekender in Brighton on 24 October before further iterations travel to The Photographers Gallery, QUAD in Derby as part of FORMAT International Photography Festival and Stills in Edinburgh across 2025. As part of Photoworks Weekender the first chapter of the exhibition V1: Content Aware was exhibited as a public realm installation outdoors in Jubilee Square, Brighton from 24 October – 27 October.
Variations is commissioned through the Ampersand/Photoworks Fellowship, a unique biennial opportunity that supports a mid-career artist to create and exhibit a new body of work. It aims to enable the artist through a £15,000 award; mentoring and curatorial support; a dedicated public programme and digital content with international reach; a production budget and a touring exhibition.
Listings for the touring exhibition
V1: Content Aware (Brighton, Jubilee Square) 24-27 October 2024
V2: Rigged (Derby, QUAD) 14 March – 15 June 2025
V3: Model Collapse (London, The Photographers Gallery) – 27 June – 21 September 2025
V4: Repository (Edinburgh, Stills Centre for Photography) 6 November 2025 – 7 February 2026
