Green Room Exhibitions – Mervyn Marshall.

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She Heard a Wind 

About the Exhibition

Combining black and white photography with poetry, She Heard a Wind tells the story of a lost soul wandering through the Mourne mountains in search of something or someone, long forgotten. 

Over the last decade, I have found myself drawn back to the scarred landscape of the Mourne mountains time and time again. There is something about being up there, at the mercy of the wind and fog, that evokes such a powerful response within me. It is a place that has become intimately connected to my physical, emotional and creative health. Perhaps more than anything, I am fascinated by the unique feeling of time passing there. While weather conditions can change in an instant, the rock, the paths, the very land is beholden to a timelessness that forges a connection between the self and those that have gone before us. This is something that I have attempted to capture across the seven images featured here. 

As an artist, I love exploring the relationship between image and word. I think these two forms of creative expression are often seen as disparate or incompatible. To me, however, the combination can result in a particular atmosphere – one that is simultaneously expansive and personal. This exhibition looks to explore that atmosphere by bringing the audience on a journey of texture, sensation, and memory. It is, in many ways, an ode to that feeling of being willingly lost to a land that has, and will forever, stretch out, in an ancient and unchanging beauty.

Artist Biography

Mervyn Marshall is a Belfast-based photographer, filmmaker and lecturer at Queen’s University. His creative work focuses on the transformative relationship between image and the word – something which he explored previously in his solo exhibition Cuba: Dead Time, which was hosted by The Green Room in 2019. This artistic preoccupation was further developed in his award-winning short film, Banshee (2022), a gothic horror film composed entirely on still photographs.

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