Dawn Rodgers is a visual artist and photographer based in Berkshire, UK. She works with photography, archives, mythology and the ancient landscapes of Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Dorset. Her work examines her response to the sudden loss of her brother in 1993. As she endeavours to make sense of it and to visualise her feelings with her photography. Within her creative practice she explores the boundaries between space and time. Using mythology and landscape to tell one of the oldest stories, the story of loss.
In 2022 she completed her, MA passing with Distinction and has since gone on to self-published her first book Sorrow.
In his book Ghost Ways Robert Macfarlane describes his book as, holding a hagstone up to the landscape, and shows the skulls beneath its skin. My camera is like a hag stone that can be held up to the landscape that can disclose my history, how my memories are trodden and ground into those familiar places. I now find solace where once I could not tread as the ghost of memories woven in the very places, I loved unnerved me.
Dawn Rodgers 2024
Exhibitions
2024 Disrupted Landscapes, group exhibition with Colin Pantall and Mandy Williams. Four
Corners Gallery, Bethnal Green.
2024 IPE 165 Exhibition Series; Finding Fiddlers Green, individual image; The Gloaming
2023 Head On Photo Festival, Sydney Australia
2023 Exposure, Exposure Gallery featuring the work of 42 photographic artists, from Suffolk,Norfolk, Essex and Beyond.
2023 Through the Camera’s Eye, City Arts Newbury
2022 Annwn, The Other Place, Solo Exhibition and Artist Talk, City Arts Newbury
2022 Art with Words, City Arts Newbury. Way of the Water (Dummy Book)
2022 Family Ties Network 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Family and Other Ties, UCA Farnham. Sorrow (Dummy Book)
2022 Landscape Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery of Photograph. Images from Annwn, the Other Place
2022 Photocaptionist Instagram Takeover, It has Fallen.
2021 Landings Online Exhibitions, work was selected in the following exhibitions, I See You,
Retake the World, and Self Server. Memories and Imagination.
Publications
2024 PH Museum Sorrow Photobook Review, by Colin Pantall
2024 Edgleands Zine, Self-Published Zine with Rachel Rimmel
2024 Sorrow, Self-Published Photobook
2024 Disrupted Landscapes, Web Feature, On Landscapes
2024 Disrupted Landscapes, Web Feature on Caught by the River
2023 The Emotional Intelligence of Photographers, blog post by Colin Pantall, extracts from Sorrow referenced
2023 Photography and Grief article by Colin Pantall, Falmouth Flexible Website. Extracts from Sorrow referenced.
2023 Publication in Exposure Zine No:1 Rocket Quarry image from Stone and Bone.
2022 Source Magazine Post Graduate Show Case, Extracts form Shadow Lands Book Series
Awards
2023 Semi Finalist Head on Landscape Awards, individual image The Gloaming
2023 Shortlisted RPS IPE 165 Images Series and Individual Image, Series; Finding Fiddlers Green and
individual image; The Gloaming
2022 Shortlisted Belfast Photo-Festival, Annwn-The Other Place, (dummy book).
2022 Shortlisted RPS IPE 164 Image Series- Annwn- The Other Place.
Talks/Podcasts
2024 Sorrow, The development of a Photobook, Oxford Photographic Society
2024 Sorrow, Photography and Grief, Newbury City Arts
2024 Broken Pack, Interview with Dr Angela Dean, Stories of Adult Sibling Loss, Photography in the
Shadows
2024 Instagram live with Ania Ready talking about Sorrow