Gilbert McCarragher
Photographer
Owlers / Alfriston 2025
Owlers, a new exhibition by artist and photographer Gilbert McCarragher, moves beyond documentation to explore the layered traces—physical, emotional and imagined—that time and memory leave on a place.
Curated by Beth Greenacre and created within the rooms of a late 16th-century cottage in the historic Sussex village of Alfriston, the work uses natural light, pinhole photography and a sensitive engagement with the architecture to reveal the building as a vessel for interrupted time and remembrance. Visitors are invited into an intimate, atmospheric encounter with its history.
19-30 August 2025
1–2 West Street, Alfriston, BN26 5UX
theowlersproject.com
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025
I am honoured to have had my work selected for the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2025 by committee members and Royal Academicians Stephanie Macdonald OBE and Tom Emerson OBE.
Visit the exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts from 17 June to 17 August 2025, or view my works online at the Academy's website.
Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD
Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman’s House
In 2018, Gilbert McCarragher was asked to create a visual record of Prospect Cottage, the iconic Dungeness house of artist, filmmaker and gay rights activist, Derek Jarman. Situated on the austere and windswept shingle beach near the looming nuclear power station, the house and surrounding garden has become an artwork in its own right, drawing Jarman devotees and curious onlookers from around the globe.
Published by Thames & Hudson, McCarragher’s work opens the door onto this previously undisturbed, unseen world.
Basilica di San Giorgio
Documenting the restoration of San Giorgio was an assignment I could hardly believe I had been asked to complete.
The statue, which stands atop the dome of Palladio’s magnificent Basilica di San Giorgio in Venice, had been struck by lightning a decade earlier and its badly damaged arm subsequently removed.