Georgia, Georgia
7th – 17th October 2025
Lincoln Central Library
Hobden (aka Dave Kenyon) is having his 7th annual exhibition of photographs, opening on Tuesday the 7th of October in the Lincoln Library. It ends on the 17th. Access is the usual library opening times.
“The main exhibition is called ‘Georgia, Georgia’ and is inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe. Or at least by an American feminist’s review of an exhibition of her flower paintings I read when I was a photography student. I had come across her name as the partner/wife of Alfred Stieglitz -who at the time was probably the most famous Art-photographer in the world. Recently I’ve seen her ‘Modernist’ New York cityscapes which take similar subject matter to Stieglitz’s “Flat Iron Building” etc. Of course, O’Keeffe left Stieglitz and became arguably more famous as an ‘independent woman artist’ in New Mexico. At the time of the 1970’s review, her famed love of women was being read into her flower images. I wasn’t convinced at the time, but I was left with a mild itch to try looking at my surroundings with O’Keeffe’s supposed attitude. As a result. I’ve put up 20 images in vertical letterbox format.”
“Also shown is a diptych of self portraits called ‘The Work Art Does in the Age of Digital Reproduction’. Many will know the famous essay by Walter Benjamin that the title evokes. One half of the pair is shot with a freebie web-camera which used ‘AI’ to fill in the missing visual information provided by the poor camera. It does this in quite a ‘painterly’ manner. For my part, I am unshaven and wearing a hoodie. The other is a much more ‘photographic’ quality depiction of me dressed much less casually. Each individual image is titled ‘Gilded Stool 1 & 2′”
“There is a third section of some 14 images that were ‘lost’ from an earlier exhibition of window images. All shot in one day uphill in Lincoln.”