GBI Commission - Alistair Debling
The 2024 RECLAIM Photography Commission aims to support and promote emerging and mid-career photographers to create a new body of work reflecting on urban GBIs in different forgotten towns across the UK.
Alistair Debling
Featuring: Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England.
Some images have been processed with dandelions and spring flowers. Licenced under CC BY-NC
Born and raised in Bristol, UK, artist Alistair Debling is currently based in Cumbria, where he is an Associate Artist with Grizedale Arts. His work has been presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), Hauser and Wirth (Somerset) and the National Theatre of Great Britain (London). Unexpected equivalences—between Tudor fortresses and nuclear power stations, disco balls and hellfire missiles, gay bars and wild elephants—often lie at the heart of Alistair Debling's practice.
His work investigates diverse fields, from queer nightlife and ecology to militarism and its architectures, to explore how rural and urban landscapes are shaped by competing definitions of survival.
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