McAllister
Frankie McAllister - About
My interests have always been in the places and landscapes I experience, whether urban or rural, the places that I escape to and which energise me or the places I hold in my memory. I am fascinated by how we (humans) interact with nature and geography, how we shape and are shaped by it, and how our politics affect it. In particular, I am drawn to the signs of our use and influence for good or otherwise, on that delicate ecology. I have a meditative approach to my work, and I find connection in those quiet spaces. My intention is to put my own hand on the scenes that engage me, detaching them from their reality and creating a new narrative, showing them in a different light. Everything is about perspective.

During lockdown, I was able to spend time creating different types of series, in still life (Stilled Lives) and interiors (The Passage of a Day), and a semi-street/documentary series ‘Closed for Business’ of images taken of the interiors of shops, hotels and restaurants shut down under Lockdown 3. I am currently working on a project called Dividing Lines - artificial constructs, about the effects of Brexit and the northern Irish protocol, using landscape as a metaphor
Publications and Online Galleries
fLIP Magazine December 2022 - Book review & image
Geographies of Print/ Territories of Practice October 2022
Shutterhub Book 'On the Road' July 2022
Interview 'Culturamas' online arts magazine April 2022
Cover Image RPS Women In Photo 'WE ARE' March 2022
fLIP Magazine December 2021 - feature article on 'UNLOCKED' exhibition
fLIP Magazine March 2021 - Barriers (image)
Rankin's 2020 - image published
fLIP Magazine December 2020 – Solitary (Feature: Ethics in Travel Photography)
fLIP Magazine December 2020 – Solitary (cover)
fLIP Magazine, August 2020 – Abstracts/Wonder
AOP Magazine - lockdown feature
Members Feature RPS Women In Photo, March 2020
fLIP Magazine, Dec 2019 – feature "Pilgrimage as an Act of Resistance”
Vogue Italia Photographer Gallery 2020
Aesthetica Magazine Summer edition listing “Manipulated Landscapes” 2019
fLIP Magazine, Dec 2018 – feature “Lives Interrupted”
Exhibitions and Awards
Attention:Vitality, Espacio Galery for London Independent Photography Jan 2023
Salon 22 - Photofusion exhibition - December 2022 to February 2023
ND Awards November 2022 - fine art/abstract
Chromatic Awards November 2022
IPA Honourable Mention special category - September 2022
IPE64 Shortlist September 2022
LIP Chronicles, Online exhibition and newspaper November 2021
'Strange Familiars' Espacio Gallery - October 2021
'UNLOCKED' Public art installation Ealing Town Centre September 2021
'Respair' Waterloo Festival, St John's Church Waterloo June 2021
16th Julia Margaret Camera Awards Honourable Mention 2021
Shutterhub Postcards from Europe exhibition 2021
ND Awards 2020 – Honourable mention
Chromatic Awards 2020- Honourable mention
London Independent Photography Covid Chronicles Online exhibition Nov 2020
Aesthetica Magazine/Printswap, Exhibition Foley Gallery New York
Festival Pil'Ours, Shutterhub, St Gilles Croix de Vie
RPS Print Exhibition, Lauderdale House, Feb 2020
Chromatic Awards – Bronze 2019
ND Awards 2019 – Honourable mention
Short listed for British Photography Awards 2020
Salon 19, Photofusion 2019
'Everyday Delight' - Free Space Project for Shutterhub, 2019
International Photography Awards, honourable mention 2019
London Independent Photography 31st Annual Show, 2019
'Home' Ealing BEAT, the Rickyard, 2019
‘Art on a Postcard’ Artists Charity auction, Spitalfields
'Home' Gallery at Home, Monmouthshire, 2019
'Time to Think, Festival Pil'ours, St Gilles croix de Vie,France 2019
'Thought Atlas, Espacio Gallery, 2019
'Street/Form' POW!WOW!, Rotterdam, 2019
'Factual Enigma', CLIP, Espacio Gallery 2019,
RPS Print Exhibition, Lauderdale House, 2019
Shutterhub Open, 5&33 Gallery, Amsterdam, 2019