Exhibition Design.

Blackout 10 presents a previously unseen image from the monumental photographic series Blackout as a new lightbox installation in a converted railway arch on the Gateshead side of the High Level Bridge. The object’s placement on the peripheries of the city, at a point of commute and transition, creates a fleeting portal into an otherworldly glacial landscape that is visible day and night.


"Holdsworth’s negative images are literal double inversions; their black and white clarity negates all natural logic. Their effect is sheer magic, the sublime made modular and spectacularly tangible: glaciers transform with sculpted solidity, as if they could fit in the palm of a hand"


The Blackout 10 installation is a commission by CIRCA Projects and Gateshead Council