A grain of worldly truth,

once mountain hard as granite

now a speck upon the shore.

Mists will march obscuring riches,

dust and bone across the floor.

The march of time respects no wealth, status or ego. Aging all, decaying all and ultimately returning all to the ground, space and matter whence it came. This image is a depiction of that end, details merge into grainy mists observed by a lone figure, a representation of all of us returning to our beginning.

The work is a limited-edition print of 10.

Artist: Adam Lucy

I am an autodidact mixed media artist based between London and Margate in the United Kingdom.

My practice explores the realm of memory, history and grief by utilising mediums such as yarn and stitching, Photography and various photographic processes, paint and the written word.

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Time acquires a different dimension when one is engaged in self-contemplation. No past, no future, only present.

Artist: Anatoliy Anshin

My photography is not about capturing things Japanese, however beautiful they might look. It is aimed at visualizing and reconnecting with the spirituality of ancient cultures that, although often lacking in our daily lives, are still accessible if we keep our hearts and minds open.

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This relates to the division of our time. Aporia is the internal contradiction that rages within us as individuals and a society

Artist: Anthony Odigie

I am a self taught artist inspired by my brother to start drawing when I was 5. Growing up in Lagos, art quickly became my escape and helped me to curate my own World. My media includes ink, felt pens and acrylic paints.

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The death of a parent shatters you but at the same time it makes you stronger. In order to keep our relationship intact with the people we have lost, we tend to cling to things, ordinary objects, that were once associated with them. This state of bereavement is communicated through personal belongings that hold deep meaning and significance. Such objects elicit deliberate memories of a place, a culture, a relationship or events of the past.This body of work celebrates cherished memories evoked by things from the past that we keep with us. Belongings of a loved one, a dried rose have also been an essential element of the work; depicting how time elapsed but the emotional connotations attached to some objects remains forever. In essence, my work is about personal loss, grief and time which I showed through documenting objects in different ways which resonate with the language of nostalgia.

Artist: Ariba Akhlaque

This body of work celebrates cherished memories and lost moments evoked by things from the past that we keep with us. depicting how time elapsed but the emotional connotations attached to some objects remains forever. In essence, my work is about personal loss, grief and time.

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"Open" is a 11x 17 photograph part of the 2-piece series "Water off a duck's back" that visually represents the soothing and healing nature of water and its effect in the construction of the subject’s self-esteem and self-love. In this first photograph, the subject directly confronts the camera and creates a sense of tension. After suffering bullying throughout her childhood, the subject recalls the use of warm water as a way of releasing negative emotions and achieving a state of relief.

Artist: Beatriz Domínguez Alemán

I'm a Chilean- Puerto Rican photographer and Anthropologist exploring the themes of intersectional discrimination, gender and racism. Working mainly in remote rural villages in Puerto Rico and Chile. In most recent times, I have involved myself in the world of artistic photography as a form of expression of social issues.

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A series of short videos called 'Primitive Force' that explore how women have been perceived over time, through the icons that we are able to observe. The ancient mystics tramp across time, baring the future generations. The earliest images are from 2,500 BC. Gradually we move towards statues from recent times.

Silent Voices - From the waters of ancient Greece to the global metropolis of Hong Kong the silent female icons gather to watch. The imagery tracks the changes over vast swathes of time yet the similarities are visible, static and silent as society marches on.

Focus - The mystic ancients still tramp, gaining wisdom from the passing of time. We move to the present where the older woman looks back at her younger self. The shape of her laugh remains the same, but everything else has changed. Even in her late eighties this lady, now no longer with us, still had her primitive force.

Artist: Chris Avis

BA. Fine Arts First Class honours 1994

MA. Art in Architecture 1996

In my early years I was a successful designer maker in porcelain and glass. In 2009 I diversified into exploring photography, video, and installation. A Winston Churchill Travel Fellowship in 2013 provided a visible platform for my developments.

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This piece represents time is short and we can unexpectedly depart at any time.

Artist: David O Flynn

I am a self thought collage artist from Co Cork Ireland. My style consists of a variety of surreal themes with a vintage flare. Creating collage is exploring the world of imagination taking the audience out of reality. its ideal way to get in touch and express a feeling.

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My idea was based around the thought that everything changes with time - nothing is static. Our brain, ideas, love, environment and style are all constantly transitioning.

Artist: Dawn Fincham

I love art and all things creative. I have organised and taken part in over 30 exhibitions of contemporary art and been included in Association of Illustrators’ publications. I am a graphic designer by day and artist by night!

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There is never any separation within any experience. The mind uses the tools of time and space to imagine separately existing objects and their attributes require measures like time and space. Yet the essence of all existence is purely timeless. As the inherent unity is perceived, time operates as the humble servant of this divine play of imagined separation.

Everything is Everything

The person is the world

The entire thing

The person and all

Is one thing

Spinning all together

All of it

Wanting to get out of it

Or wanting enlightenment

Or wanting anything for that matter

Is the same thing

Understanding this or not

Is also the same thing

There is no way out

Because there is nothing really in

So anything is possible

Because it really isn’t there

Artist: Deepa Khanna Sobti

I am a self-taught abstract artist, poet and philanthropist. My practice is the embodiment of a lifetime of exploration, fascination and expression of the divine paradox of life being empty and full, being timeless and yet eternal. I have won several art awards worldwide and have exhibited my work extensively.

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Time in an analogue form is captured in digital form both as a moving image and still photographic images. A digital time based testament of its existence.

Through the selection of ice as a medium for the sculptural form and installation, the viewer has an opportunity to closely examine the aesthetic and physical properties of the medium, in addition to its metaphorical and temporal attributes. If sometimes a difficult, unpredictable and even dangerous medium , ice also possesses extraordinary and exquisite qualities and often has theatrical and performative dimensions.

Through its change of state, ice entombs time and temporality, ‘being in time and of time and within time’. It is time made physical. It offers the viewer a glimpse of now and then, previous and present - an organic capture and framing of time.

Artist: Emma Dolphin

Educated at Chelsea College of Art&Design and the Royal College of Art, UK, my work includes video, artist’s books, print, installation, I exhibit in the UK and internationally. My work is in collections including UoK Special Collections, Willesden Green Archives. I have recently started a fine art PhD in UoR.

The series "Forget Me Not" was shot during the 2020 Lockdown.

I was living with flatmates who were Bengali, Hungarian and Dutch. We often spoke of when next time we would see our friends in other parts of the world.

I moved to London from Yorkshire in 2014 and had always feared been forgotten over time by those I loved in my place of birth. This fear is exacerbated by my ongoing fight with Bipolar Disorder. But listening to my flatmates speak of their loved ones in other countries made me realise how privileged I was to have mine in the same country and not that far away.

What seems a sad common theme for everyone I know, is that the more time the pandemic continued, the more little time "friends" seemed to have for each other. People realised whom they could truly count on in times of need.

Artist: Jenny Nash

I am a non binary artist from Yorkshire based in Hackney, London. For my auto-ethnographic photography research "Exploration of Auto-Pathography Within Phototherapy" I was awarded Leyden Gallery's Emerging Artist Award in 2020 and shortlisted by New Emergence Art Prize in 2021 for my work "Sinnestäuschung" a diary of bipolar hallucinations.

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On Easter Saturday every year the 'Coconut Dancers' gather at one boundary of the town and dance their way across to the other accompanied by members of the Stackstead Silver Band, collecting for charity as they go.

Youngsters amazed at the man dressed in such an old-fashioned way, as miners did when collecting for charity many, many years ago.

Artist: John Walmsley

I have been a professional, freelance documentary photographer since 1968. My work is at the National Portrait Gallery, Tate Britain Library, V&A National Art Library, V&A Museum of Childhood, Liverpool Museum, la Bibliothèque nationale de France, University of California Library and has been published in 1,000+ books worldwide.

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Pandemic, natural disaster, crisis, war… repeat.

I get a sense of déjà vu when I read the news these days. Many of the tragedies that we are experiencing nowadays are especially sad because they are preventable. It is easy to think that those horrible moments in history are in the past, that society has changed and that some things will never happen again. But as memory fades, events from the past can become events of the present.

So I created this image based on this feeling of being engulfed by the flood of bad news. It is like being adrift in an ocean of fear. Being powerless and unable to recover from the waves of chaos sweeping through the world.

Artist: Juliana Lauletta

I am a Brazilian multimedia artist. My Light Painting Photographs are created exclusively with long exposures, without Photoshop, using stencils and light props that I build myself. I run workshops and organize exhibitions to empower people to rekindle their creative side and highlight the importance of art in mental health.

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One definition of Time is the continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future - regarded as a whole- essentially a non spacial continuum that is measured by events that succeed one another. This work is about tapping into something that is fundamental - an ancient belief that the different layers of time exist together - that we walk with ourselves in the present but also with our ancestors and those yet to come.

Artist: Kate Rossini

My work is about exploring my identity - looking inwards to what is hidden - exploring juxtapositions between methodologies imposing rules and those freed from rational control. Not fixed to one theme/genre - my work is a journey of exploration – looking for unexpected connections and meaning through making.

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Chronopolis is an ongoing photographic series set in Leeds, England, taken over a period of twenty five years. The title is from a story by the sci-fi writer J G Ballard, which depicts a deserted city of clocks all stopped at 12.01. Some of these viewpoints of Leeds no longer exist, some of the buildings have already gone. Clocks appear to freeze a moment in time, however, clocks cannot be trusted; many of these clocks were wrong, or had stopped. The inspiration for the mood of the images is the surrealist artist Giorgio de Chirico, and his series of unsettling city spaces such as 'The Enigma of the Hour' (1910). Taken with a Polaroid SX70 instant camera, these photographs are unique prints formed at a particular moment in time. As Ballard's story suggests, a city without clocks is disorientating, but a city with clocks is a kind of prison.

Artist: Kenneth Yates

I studied Fine Art at Leeds University. As a filmmaker, I have made creative films for Screen Yorkshire and North West Vision in England, and my photographs have been exhibited online and in galleries. But whatever the media, I’m always looking to find magic and mystery in the mundane.

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"Every year is getting shorter

Never seem to find the time

Plans that either come to naught

Or half a page of scribbled lines" -Pink floyd

This artwork is a reflection of how we spend time nowadays. Everything is so fast, we have no time to do what we like, no time to stay with people who we love and when we realize that we have to slow down and do whatever we want, it might be too late.

Artist: Letícia Lima

I am a photographer and filmmaker. My work has influences from the world of music, fashion and cinema - mainly horror films from the 70s and 80s. I am passionate about art direction and I always seek to introduce a playful universe into my photographs.

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‘Destruction of Our Pale Blue Dot’ focuses on the destruction we're causing to our oceans through activities at sea such as oil drilling and pollution whilst simultaneously touching upon the issue of our oceans being unable to absorb anymore carbon dioxide from our atmosphere, decreasing the amount of time to reverse climate change.

The drawings are created over an elapsed time period as ice blocks melt into the Indian ink to create the drawing. Echoing the notion of our planet losing its sea ice and we only have a short amount of time left to reverse this damage before it’s too late. With our activities across the planet increasing the harmful gases within our atmosphere, the oceans are no longer capable of absorbing any more carbon dioxide and accelerating the effects of climate change. Our planet once referred to by Carl Sagan as a ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is dying.

Artist: Lewis Andrews

Lewis Andrews is a Fine Artist based in Leeds, United Kingdom. His work specialises in dealing with complex thoughts, ideas and facts within nature and science. Questioning our relationships, place and role within the universe, environment and natural spaces.

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During Lockdown I daily wrapped the Amazon delivery boxes I ordered for next day delivery with sellotape to create translucent casts as representations of my confinement. The cyclophane cubes became infused with the smell, cultural associations and with a moment in time.

These translucent wobbly cubes now tentatively try to maintain their shape, some sagging, even collapsing under their own weight yet retaining the tomb like chamber, void within. While embodied in the layers of adhesive are trapped traces of my fingerprints, hermetically sealed in at the moment of construction, like the Neolithic hand print on a cave wall.

Both are locked in time, yet like the Tardis or Sir John Soane’s house, it can transport you through time to the moment of conception, by means of our everyday inconsequential manmade plastic material. This throw away material, will only deconstruct, evolutionary like stone over trillions of years.

Artist: Lorrain Mailer

Using a repetitive, wrapping process as a means to work through my thoughts; I enfold single use non-biodegradable plastics with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze. The resulting work appears fragile, ephemeral yet is labour intensive and enduring like stone.

A British sculptor, BA Fine Art 2016, MA Fine Art 2020

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Two siblings taking a picture together like they used to do as small children staring at the camera. The title memories symbolises children growing up so fast, or is it time going fast? The half circle works like a loop to think of all the memories.

Artist: Maria Christidi

Hailing from Cyprus, much of my work explores aspects of Greek history and mythology. I am particularly interested in the relationships between the ancient and the contemporary – how the ancient cultures of the region have evolved and what insights we can gain from their study.

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Making Time is a short (3m 26s) looped black and white video showing a person’s hands assembling a jigsaw. The completed jigsaw shows a complete clockface. My concept was that the incremental construction of the jigsaw, as a clockface, underlined our arbitrary and imposed analogue measuring of time.

Artist: Melissa Mahon

With a special interest in the photographic, my work explores message and construct. I am interested in photography’s ability to both fix and undermine the constructed nature of time. My recent PhD study concerned what is seen and/or believed within contemporary photography. I am a UK based, Irish, research-led artist.

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My current digital art series Overlook examines the entropy of visual culture and the discord of perception under the current trends in delivery of visual information. When once we consumed visual information, now we glimpse the visual stimuli, scrolling past with a dismissive glance. As the innate desire to observe slowly erodes, it creates a vacuum that is filled with an insatiable need for more visual stimuli. The Overlook series deconstructs how our culture consumes imagery by masking iconography within layers of line, shape, color and rhythm and rendering them obsolete.

Overlook is a critique of a willingness to adapt to new sensibilities in observation. Its intention is to provoke the viewer to seek out what is familiar yet veiled by dissonance, and invites the viewer to engage with misleading, misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented and superficial information. In this, Overlook is an attempt to mimic media.

Artist: Michael Laughlin

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In the time past Russian used to have her on mini empire which was lost in around 1989. Since the 2nd World War, USA and Russia have engaged in the battle of supremacy, too scared of each other’s shadows. These two so-called “world superpowers” will not like to have their enemy be an allied nation close to their borders. In October 1962, the American government rejected to have Russian missiles at her backyard in Cuba. Now, Russia is rejecting American and NATO influence close to its border and will not give up Ukraine to the West without a fight. This has led to the ongoing war in Ukraine which inspired me to do this painting “Ukraine-The Unfortunate Bride”.

To have peace in the world, America and Russia must stop meddling in the affairs of other countries.

Artist: O. Yemi Tubi

I am a Nigerian born, American trained Artist, currently residing in the UK. I do paintings with a unique personal style in acrylic, watercolour and oil paints. Most of my recent paintings were influenced by the political and social upheaval of our world today and the works of Renaissance artists.

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“Past in Mind” is a rendition of the timelessness of trauma. Active trauma sends you back in time in a way that blends past with present. The body feels the incident in real time, the muscles tense, your brain goes into fight or flight. “Past in Mind” is a self reflective piece that draws upon imagery that holds significance to traumatic incidents of my past. I live my trauma on replay. It knows no time.

Artist: Rainy Batroff

I am a self-taught trans non-binary artist in New Mexico. My transition has become inseparable from my work and I outwardly process my journey through a span of mediums ranging painting to sketch to sculpture. I am moved by the idea that my journey can help others find their own.

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As part of the artists' "Ancestry" series, this image looks into the background of the artist's family. In combining images of their youth with images of the present (taken by Freville), the idea of palimpsest is exhibited as the images of the past look into the best hope for the future.

Artist: Rae Freville

Rae Freville is a Chicago-born photographer based in Louisville, KY finishing her BA in Arts Administration with minors in Business Administration, Art, and Art History at Bellarmine University. Freville divides her time between painting and photography, depicting scenes of raw emotion infused within images of family, friends, cityscapes, and nature.

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Lockdown diaries - or lockdown chronicles - is an acute traumatic journey about the passing of time indoors during the first strike of the pandemic (2020) between Spain and the UK.

This series of analogue photographs aim to show the slowly transition of time in a narrative that portrays the ordinary within a dialogue between belonging and loss.

Artist: Romina Belda

Romina Belda (1990) is a Spanish-born London based photographer whose approach to the locations and people she photographs is instinctive and subjective. Romina’s work often explores topics of belonging, memory and identity weaving her images together to create narratives mostly based on poetics of the everyday.

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