b.1978, she/her
MA Distinction
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', photograpy 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
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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