The EDGE OF RUIN - MARC WILSON

Festival Exhibition

Location: TBC

Open: 1st October - 31st October 2025.

We are pleased to welcome Marc Wilson back to The Northern Eye with the first showing of a selection of his new work ‘The Edge of Ruin’.

After a successful Kickstarter campaign his new book is due for publication in October 2025.

Whilst the more obvious signs of our industrial legacy, the edifices of our industrial past, unless purposefully preserved for heritage, crumble into the landscape on which they were set or are erased by us, it is in the physical landscapes themselves that the lasting impression of this past remains.

As I walked around these first sites, camera still firmly in my bag, what became immediately apparent to me was that I needed to look past the remaining edifices, these buildings constructed by men, and instead focus on the physical landscape itself on which industry had left its everlasting impression, whilst avoiding the cliches of nostalgia and romanticism.

A crevice carved out of the hills in the Pennines, a series of ridges found on a west facing slope of a Tor in Dartmoor, these are the shadows of our industrial past, the silent markers for future generations to be guided by

Marc Wilson

Born in London, Marc’s studies took him from Sociology to Photography and he has been making photographs ever since. His images document the memories, histories and stories that are set in the landscapes that surround us.

Based in the UK, Marc works on long term documentary projects, including ‘A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust’ (2015-2021) and ‘The Last Stand’ (2010-2014). His aim is to tell stories through photography, focusing at times on the landscape itself, and the objects found on and within it, and sometimes combining landscape, documentary, portrait and still life, along with audio recordings of interviews and sounds, to portray the mass sprawling web of the histories and stories he is hoping to tell.

Solo exhibitions include Side Gallery, Newcastle, The Royal Armouries Museum, Oriel Colwyn and Focal point Gallery in the UK and Spazio Klien in Italy. Group shows include those at The Photographers Gallery and the Association of Photographers gallery, London, and internationally at The Athens PhotoFestival and Tel Aviv Museum of Art.

Marc’s work has been published in journals and magazines ranging from National Geographic, FT Weekend and The British Journal of Photography and Raw Magazine to Wired and Dezeen.

www.marcwilson.co.uk

All festival exhibitions are FREE to visit.

THE EDGE OF RUIN

Book publication date - due October 2025

Working specs:

124 pages - Litho printing - 57 images - Research text - Design: Wayne Ford

Self published - Two&Two press