Annie Halliday's photograms are delicate and seductive explorations of the secret relationship between light and everyday objects. In this exhibition, which included both 2-D and 3-D works, she returned to the technological origins of photography to re-examine the potential of the photogram. This technique, which involves neither camera nor lens, but only light, an object and light-sensitive materials, still retains some of the aura of mystery that surrounded early photographic images, and captures the elusive qualities of light as it filters through glass, water, melting ice and other transparent materials. Through the sensitive selection of objects, Halliday has created images that have an intense, fragile and haunting beauty.

'Translucent Exposures' consisted entirely of photograms. Light from a simple light source refracted by common glassware and water, yields strange precipitations on light-sensitive paper. The then very latest work, 'In the dark', was a three panel installation of photograms mapping the skin of a female body as, pressed against photographic paper, it spreads a film of water, The exposures re-present qualities of human fleash, tracing movement, contour and spatial relationship. They are life drawings made with water and light. ...I explore the mysterious nature of light. I feel a sense of awe about this phenomenon which animates life, and is the means by which we experience the visual world. Transparency is the heart of my process, my personal obsession. Transparent substances mark the intersection between the tangible and the intangible, they are places of internal illumination...

I work to make visible the otherwise unseen.”
Annie Halliday writing in Artists Newsletter.

This was an Impressions Gallery Touring Exhibition.

A slideshow of some of the photograms included in the show together with documentation of the exhibition: