StevieRay Latham (b. 1992) works across drawing, painting, print, sound, text and video, investigating the ways that cultural narratives shape our understanding of the world around us, surfacing alternative histories and futures in order to examine the contemporary within a broader temporal context.
Imagining these narratives as ‘lenses' altering our view of the world, Latham combines historical, philosophical, archival, folkloric and literary references, layering, manipulating and distorting them in order to unearth spectral traces hidden within a substrata of cultural memory.
Whether layering science-fiction city-scapes with images from rural-archives, using A.I. to generate imagined landscapes or stretching Baroque concertos into ambient soundscapes; information, images and sounds are filtered through technology before being re-contextualised within analogue and physical processes, creating environments where notions of reality are re-examined and new relationships are created.
StevieRay Latham is an artist and musician based in London, UK. He holds an MA in Fine Art from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) and has exhibited and performed across the UK and Europe, whilst his works are held in private and public collections. He is a member of Critical Edge Collective, a group of artists committed to collaboration, experimentation and research-based practice.