Unloud exhibition in Grimsby

Grimsby Docks

Grimby fish docks seems like an unlikely area for regeneration as a thriving new arts sector, but Turntable Gallery and a few other local grassroots projects seem to be defying the odds in this regard. Once one of the largest ports in the world, most of the area now lies fallow. I had a good walk around the site with my camera at the weekend, as I was visiting for the opening of a group exhibition there, and I found a really fascinating place, and very friendly people, dotted amongst the hulking industrial ruins. “Unloud” is the brainchild of Ashley Gallant and Charles Fox, who asked me to pen the catalogue essay for their new show. One of my photographs was also exhibited as part of the group show.

This is the first exhibition I’ve been to held in a series of disused industrial fridges! It made for a very interesting space indeed.

unloud

Ashley Gallant, Charles Fox & Group Show
15 February - 15 March 2025

Some art is loud, it screams with its politics wears its heart on its sleeve. Other art is quiet and doesn’t say anything at all, its mute in its purposelessness. Curator and photographer Ashley Gallant says ‘I have never been interested in either. I am interested in the un-loud.’

This exhibition brings together three smaller displays of internationally recognised photographers that all share an uneasiness, or a feeling of the unfinished or unsaid in the photographs displayed under the theme of the unloud.

‘The unloud is Images, texts, art works that seem tranquil on the surface but contain a silent deafening scream. The landscape that hides the mass grave.The tree that hung the man.The village green, It’s like an M R James story, Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad’