Sarah Ainslie, Gallions Reach © Sarah Ainslie

Drifting Across the Peripheries of an Urban Landscape is a photography exhibition of Sarah Ainslie’s Limehouse Tilbury project at House of Annetta, 25 Princelet St, London E1 6QH.

In 2018 Sarah Ainslie started wandering along the Thames from Limehouse to Tilbury documenting the liminal peripheries of London where urban and rural life collide, a disappearing, endlessly changing landscape, so close to the city where vast monuments to late capitalism clash with the detritus of abandoned industry and traces of human life.

Ainslie was drawn into this exploration through her grandfather who worked in Chiangmai, Thailand in the early 1900’s and travelled to Bangkok from Tilbury. His father and grandfather were functionaries of the East India Company and her walks were part of searching for answers about her own colonial history. She found an unstructured way of being, jumping back, moving forward, seeing something on the periphery of her vision and layering one moment’s observation upon another, using photomontage to create a way of piecing together this sense of dis- location.

The exhibition comprises photographs, photomontages and concertinas and is part of PhotoMonth Photography Festival, which celebrates photography in major public spaces and established independent galleries, private spaces, local libraries, bookshops and unconventional buildings across all London areas with an ‘E’ postcode.

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