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ÖRES @oresresidency September 2026, Oct/Nov: You Had To Be There, Observations of the Arctic, Marist University, New York, USA.

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Currently showing in Before & After: Fragments of Origin, artists from CAMP membership, the Urban Room, Levinsky Gallery Space, Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth. My work: Glacial Inversion (2024) is a long exposure pinhole photograph, made with expired redscale colour film (inverted) during an international art and science residency on a barquentine tall ship in the Svalbard Archipelago in midsummer 2022. The image was captured while afloat on a rib boat, moving on the ebb and flow of the Arctic Ocean. Overwhelmed by the sight, it was impossible to gauge the distance and scale of the glacier, an ancient form of ice that appeared as an aberration on both the near and distant horizons. Dimensions: 20 cm x 15 cm x 25 mm colour photo on acrylic block #glacier #arctic taken in Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth Uni by @rachlouall

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Excited to be invited for this exhibition, opening Wednesday 7th October 2026 curated by @mattfrieburghaus @maristartgallery in great company! #arctic #exhibition taken in Marist University by @rachlouall

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A little belated as I’ve been in another time and place..Happy Autumn Equinox 2026, solargraph capturing three months of daylight descending from midsummer until the autumn Equinox- Equilux when there is equal day and night #equinox #equiluxe #solar #astrophoto taken in South Hams by @rachlouall

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Back in Helsinki with @kaisukoivisto following a wonderful month long art and research residency @oresresidency on a remote island in the Finnish Archipelago @visit_oro @saaristossa 🇫🇮🏝️✨ taken in Helsinki by @rachlouall

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"During our last week on Örö Island, we have been watching and recording the ‘Shifting Light – Valon siirtymiä’. We have observed the changing landscape and the unexpected encounters that arise as the flora and fauna transition into Autumn, coinciding with a significant decrease in daylight hours. This period builds momentum toward the Equinox and follows the Equilux, which is when day and night are approximately equal at 12 hours each, signalling the start of meteorological autumn."

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Image 1: Kaisu Koivisto & Rachael Allain "Fishing", Image Credit: Risto Vuorenrinne

Image 2: Kaisu Koivisto, Film set-up, work in progress,
Location: Decommissioned military observation point, in the North of Örö island.

Image 3: Rachael Allain: Timelapse, Shifting Moth Light.

Image 4: Kaisu Koivisto: gathering footage for the video installation Kimmel - Glimmer in the Örö southern fortifications. Production of the installation is supported by AVEK @avekfi

#öres #öresresidency #öröartresidency #artistresidency taken in Örö by @rachlouall

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How do you spend a residency on an island where the days keep getting shorter? With sunrise swims, sunset walks and a lot of looking. Two days before the equinox, Rachael Allain and Kaisu Koivisto share their work in progress from Örö:

"I have been responding and adjusting to the ‘Shifting light’/ ‘Valon siirtymiä’ on the island, through an embodied practice using a range of methods and recording devices.
Every day Kaisu and I walk to the east beach for sunrise swims and then to the west beach for the sunset on the horizon.
Watching and experiencing the rapidly decreasing daylight hours as we move towards the Autumn Equinox on 23rd September, when there is equal day and night. I have also been attempting to learn Finnish!"

-Rachael @rachlouall

Kaisu is gathering footage for a video installation, Kimmel/Glimmer, with support from AVEK. The work continues her exploration of Northern environments and their histories.

Koivisto @kaisukoivisto
is a visual artist based in Helsinki. In her installations, she works across photography, drawing, sculpture and video.

Images:

1. Kaisu Koivisto; stone studies, work in progress.

2. Rachael Allain, work in progress, film still in the sea, by Rachael Allain.

Film still from work in progress made during my daily swims in the sea, noting the plethora of wild flora and fauna on the island as we move towards the Autumn Equinox.

3. Rachael Allain, Baltic Blue work in progress.

From a series of Baltic Blue prints made on the fringes between the land and the water on the southeast coast of the island, on the sandy Solkuro beach/ Solkuron uimapaikka, recording the air and sea temperatures and the fluctuating UV levels.

Photo: Laura Böök @unreal_laurabook

4. Kaisu Koivisto: work in progress. Photo: Rachael Allain

5. Rachael Allain and Kaisu Koivisto, Phone booth. Photo: Kristian Jalava

#öres #öresartresidency taken in Örö by @rachlouall

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Rachael Allain is an artist-researcher based in the Southwest, UK. Her practice is shaped through an embodied phenomenological exploration of watery sites, often using artist residencies as methodology. She explores liminal spaces and places, in between the land and bodies of water, working with art and scientific data imaging to reveal invisible realms of our visible world.

Welcome to Öres!

Photo: Allain, R. (2025). Self-portrait in the sea, Plymouth Sound, Digital film still.

#öres #öröartistresidency taken in Örö by @rachlouall

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Introducing September Artists in Residence Rachael Allain & Kaisu Koivisto!

Rachael Allain’s and Kaisu Koivisto’s theme for the residency is “Shifting Light – Valon siirtymiä,” focusing on transient moments of change, growth, renewal and fluctuating daylight hours. The island, its histories, and nature are a location in which
our artistic practices meet.

Rachael’s interest in intertidal zones fringing the land, above and below the horizon and the Baltic Sea, meets Kaisu’s long-term inquiry into
abandoned military structures and how nature takes over.

The artists are challenged
and inspired by the phenomenological engagement that can only arise from being physically present in a place and the unexpected explorations that can be realised through an embodied, sensorial, lived experience.

Individual presentations coming soon!
@rachlouall @kaisukoivisto @avekfi

Images:
Koivisto & Allain, Örö (2026)
Koivisto, K, & Allain, R. (2025). Double Horizons, Helsinki/Plymouth, Digital Scan, 35mm colour film, double exposure photograph. (Part of the image)
Koivisto, test 2026
Allain, wip 2026

#öres #öresresidency #örö #artistresidency taken in Örö by @rachlouall

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Reflected sunlight on the calm Baltic Sea, swallows flitting and chattering in Finnish above the surface. At the start of a month long residency @oresresidency on @visit_oro with @kaisukoivisto taken in ÖRÖ by @rachlouall

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Deep partial solar eclipse yesterday, Wednesday, August 12, 2026 from the clifftop at Thurlestone in south Devon, which was within the deep-coverage zone with unobstructed open sea views to the west, experiencing peak coverage of roughly 95% shortly after 7:15 PM. Images from before, during and after the eclipse of the sun in the shadow of the dark moon ☀️🌚 🌏 taken in Thurlstone Beach, Devon by @rachlouall

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In anticipation of the Solar Eclipse tomorrow, 12-08-26, when we are expected to have clear skies and a maximum of 95% coverage of the sun in the South West, UK, I’m sharing a small section of Blue Eclipse- Revisited, Firestone Bay, Plymouth
Digital film 3 mins 48 secs

A double exposure (flipped) film made on the deep partial solar eclipse which occurred across the United Kingdom on the morning of Friday, March 20, 2015, between 8:30 am, peaked between 9:35 and 9:45 am, and ended around 10:43 am. Filmed in the tidal sea pool, at Firestone Bay in Plymouth with hydrophonic sound, it captures the shifting light phenomena reflected onto the water, as the Moon blocked approximately 83% of the Sun, casting a shadow on Earth. It was the most substantial solar eclipse visible from the UK since the total eclipse of August 11, 1999. taken in Firestone Bay by @rachlouall

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Currently on show, Image 1: detail from Baltic Blue (in progress), Image 2: 120 hours & Image 3: Diary of Light extracts from my residency with @imaginingodzilla (2024) in the Finnish 🇫🇮 archipelago as part of the exhibition with @imaginingodzilla @kulturhus_kubu Last week:
Imagining Godzilla
Andy Best & Merja Puustinen + artists
4.7.–2.8.2026
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Imagining Godzilla is a mobile platform for undertaking artistic and other forms of research that are appropriate for a sailing vessel. Godzilla has hosted over 60 artists and other researchers who are interested to use this platform for an experimental research trip, to imagine how they can benefit from a period onboard Godzilla. Godzilla is a Pahi 42 polynesian style sailing catamaran designed by James Wharram. Andy Best is co-organiser of Imagining Godzilla project together with Merja Puustinen. Andy is Godzilla’s skipper and in charge of all practical matters concerning the boat. Merja is the main producer and coordinator. taken in Tvärminne Zoological Station by @rachlouall

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