Space, Light and Time: Edward Woodman, A Retrospective celebrates this remarkable career, which spans six decades, highlighting his deep and longstanding collaborations with artists including: Edward Allington, Phyllida Barlow, Helen Chadwick, Richard Deacon, Anya Gallaccio, Antony Gormley, Mona Hatoum, Michael Landy, Cornelia Parker, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Wilson, Julia Wood, and many more.

Alongside these acclaimed collaborations, the exhibition also includes rarely seen examples from the British photographer’s early career as a photojournalist, up to his most recent and highly personal works that explore photography’s relationship with memory and illusion.

In 1999, Edward photographed Anya Gallaccio’s All the rest is silence and to coincide with his photographs of this delicate installation being included in the exhibition, Anya has recreated the extraordinary work specifically for John Hansard Gallery. Indigo dye slowly suffuses 7-metres of Chappa silk, suspended in front of the window that overlooks Guildhall Square below. The daylight fixes the indigo dye, echoing the process of analogue photography throughout Woodman’s exhibition of entirely hand-printed photographs.

Space, Light and Time: Edward Woodman, A Retrospective is on view at John Hansard Gallery, part of the University of Southampton, from 24 November to 2 February 2019.