b.1978, she/her
MA Distinction
2026
Solo exhibition, Museum of Prehistory, Sauveterre, France: curated by Alain Turq, prehistorian and museum curator, July to September 2026. Prehistoric landscapes and their evolution. Photographs exhibited alongside prehistoric finds from the Thèze Valley.
Press release forthcoming.
Landscape photography workshops, Museum of Prehistory, Sauveterre, France: Tuesdays 20 July to 14 August, 2026.
Prehistory and Landscape: guided walk with Alain Turq, prehistorian, Vallée de la Thèze, Lot, France, September 2026 (date to be confirmed). In conjuction with the exhibition.
Forthcoming:
Exhibition of new work, Galerie Rideau de Fer, Castelfranc
Jonathan Cooper, London
2025
Le Centre d'Art et de Photographie Lumière d'Encre, Céret, France: work selected by committee, March 2025
Solo exhibition, Galerie du Château, Saint Croix de Mareuil, France: curated by Jane Linden PhD and Jonathan Harris PhD 'Projets La Vieille Closerie', Reading a Landscape, April 2025, press release here
Lecture and discussion, opening, Galerie du Château, April 2025: What to photograph? How do we read a landscape photograph? What do we understand by natural? By historical? Do photographs tell the truth?
'Reading the Landscape', photography workshop, exhibition, April 2025
'Barcelona 1st International Conference: Contemporary Art & Extractivist Culture', May 2025: work discussed in the lecture by art historian Jonathan Harris. Lecture here
Grant 'Goethe Institute, Culture Moves Europe': photographing the landscapes of Brussels in dialogue with rural landscapes; photographing the buildings where land use decisions are made, April 2025
Solo exhibition, Three Colts Gallery, London, November 2025. Interview here
Lecture and discussion, Three Colts Gallery, November 2025: Landscape, truth and document.
Works:
France, UK, US, Canada, Ireland, Czech Republic, Belgium
2023/24
Exhibitions:
Château Grimard, Duravel, Lot; Galerie Rideau de Fer, Lot; Three Colts Gallery, London, UK; Galerie de Photo, Livres, Books et Company, Montcuq, Lot; Galerie d’Art Le Lieu-Dit, Calès, Lot; Galerie Le Tympan, Goujounac, Lot; Mairie de Montcabrier, Lot
Articles:
'The Thèze Valley, History and Composition’, self-published booklet, March 2023
'Photographing a Landscape over Time’, online magazine On Landscape, no. 312, September 2024, www.onlandscape.co.uk/2024/09/photographing-landscape-over-time
Rhiain Lefton is a British landscape photographer who grew up and lives in the Lot, France. A Masters with distinction in ‘Sexual Dissidence in Literature and Culture’ (University of Sussex, UK, 2009) focusing on queer and feminist politics, anti-racism and jewish history informs the theoretical and research basis of her practice and a diploma in horticulture from the RHS, UK has helped to refine her understanding of plant life. She trained in B&W film photography before moving to digital.
Rhiain exhibits, take commissions and offers courses.
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