Tim Sandys-Renton
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For more images of Tim’s work from the TRANSEPT exhibition in the CATHEDRAL please go to: http://www.artel.org.uk/transept/artists/tim-sandys-renton/
Tim has recently been experimenting with pinhole cameras. A pinhole camera is a strange instrument in that it doesn’t have a lens, so it can only let a tiny amount of light into the darkened box. Inside the box is photographic paper, not film. This means that the large-scale paper image comes out negative and takes a massive amount of time to expose. The process of being photographed in this way is strange because one has the distinct feeling of being drawn, as if one is a life model in a drawing class. Changing position will change the image; but equally you can scratch and get back into the same position without affecting the image. Such a process is physically like drawing as the more light that’s directed into the pin-hole the blacker the paper becomes; just like using a pencil or charcoal. When photography was first invented in the 19th Century many people honestly thought that there were little leprechauns inside the box, drawing the subject. This is exactly what it feels like!
Tim studied at Exeter and the Royal College of Art. He developed sculpture using photography as a way to allude to the movements implicit in objects and possible audience interactions with objects. In 1995 Tim moved to a post as Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Chichester, then running the Fine Art BA (’97-’99), but pulled back to allow more time to make Art. Since then he has been instrumental in setting up STUDIOS4ARTISTS (http://www.studios4artists.co.uk/) which plans to set up and run 35+ studios in Graylingwell, NE Chichester.