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David Rowan

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Artist @granduniongallery Cultural Heritage Photography with @_ahfap_ Photographic department for @birmingham_mag

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Grateful for the support from @aceagrams with my first international research visit to Finland as part of my Develop Your Creative Practice award. Looking forward to a year of extended research and new work development. A man holds a camera inside a nuclear reactor facility. taken in Olkiluoto Nuclear Power Plant by @section_8

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Former AEEU offices designed by Madin Architects (1961) Photographed in 2002, demolished 2003. (No unauthorised use allowed) #johnmadin #archives #birmingham #architecture #dycp taken in Holloway Circus by @section_8

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7 months ago

Four Actions For Digbeth from @eprjcts and @granduniongallery design by @misterdodds #digbethfirstfriday taken in Digbeth, Birmingham by @section_8

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Mothers without Hands transforms ancient archetypes into contemporary tools, using storytelling to bridge individual trauma with a collective, unifying strength.

1. Mothers without Hands, video 2025
Mothers without Hands video consists of a combination of slow-motion scenes and tableaux vivants. Evading exact periodisation, Mothers without Hands combines performance and pageantry and pagan and religious customs, as well as highlighting the conjunction between reality and artifice, civic clothing and folk costume, joy and solemnity, youth and age, urban and rural settings, enabling it to function as a mythic history unbound by time.

2. Bread Woman costume, including gloves, textiles, wool, ceremonial bread, 2025
Mothers without Hands demonstrates Bušková’s commitment to the exploration of the role of women – as, among other things, artists, protagonists, sisters, mothers and muses – and to the celebration of feminine energy and often unacknowledged female labour.

3. Mothers’ costumes and crowns, textiles, metal, mirrors, beads, wire, 2025
Bušková’s reinterpretation of the Czech custom Ježíškovy matičky(Beloved Mothers of Christ) saw the ‘Madonnas’ who traditionally lead the ceremony reconceived as ‘Mothers’ in remembrance of the pregnant women who, during the Great Northern War (1700-1721), processed in protest against being raped.

4. Mothers without Hands, video 2025
In addition, the Christ sculpture carried as part of the original ritual was replaced in Bušková’s procession in Prague – celebrative of Mothers’ Day – by a large collectively baked and delicately braded Sklenovska Matička (Beloved Mother). Made from leaven dough traditionally used to make ceremonial bread, the Matička was wheeled by a male member of the Suchdol community @radost_suchdol on a small goods cart, also used to convey the artist’s muse @misszoesimon who was dressed as an ethereal spirit, representing feminine energy.

5. Tereza Bušková, Mothers without Hands, curated by Dr Nicola Baird @nickyjbaird. Installation shot, The New Art Gallery Walsall @thenewartgallerywalsall 2026

* the text (@nickyjbaird) has been shortened for this post

Photo credits: David Rowan @section_8 taken in The New Art Gallery Walsall by @section_8

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Secret gardens next to the River Tame and M6 #tame #m6 taken in Walsall, West Midlands by @section_8

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Earlier this year I was commissioned by @janeymcardle to work on the new ‘Unlocking The Vaults’ Exhibition at @exchangebirmingham for the university of Birmingham. I completed extensive archive photography on the collections based at @libraryofbirmingham. I worked on over 2200 items which make up the majority of the exhibition panels and features designed by @design_penguin_creative They even included several of my own images of the old municiple bank building captured back in 2018. It’s a stunning building, I love the underground vaults they are are always worth a visit whenever I’m passing. The history of the municiple bank, the people, the experiences and history is fascinating. The exhibition continues until 7th November. More information on the UoB website. #birmingham #uob #culturalheritagephotography taken in The Exchange, University of Birmingham by @section_8

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#lostfootballs #newstreet #birmingham taken in Birmingham, United Kingdom by @section_8

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Traces of Madin. July 2026 #johnmadin #birminghammodernistsociety #gr3 #postwarmodernism taken in Edgbaston, Birmingham, United Kingdom by @section_8

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Norwich House. Architects Edmund Kirby & Sons. Constructed 1973. Minimal lower floor exterior surface damage. Beautiful pre-cast features. Almost entirely no grafitti and the dirty service area along the side is quite cinematic on a wet afternoon. #brutalist #gr3 #newtopographicmovement #busmansholiday taken in Water Street, Liverpool by @section_8

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Took a trip to @openeyegallery to see the excellent, Is This a Garden? Curated by Gary Bratchford and @s_whipps which includes some excellent print work by, among others: @lydiagoldblatt Daniel Meadows @pickering_sarah @siandavey1 and @marktpower not to mention my pals @laconandrew and @andrewjackson_art It’s always positive to experience good photographic work in print and in the flesh. Lydia Goldblatts colour print ‘Eden in the garden’ is a subtle beauty and a real favourite. taken in Open Eye Gallery by @section_8

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Surface remnants, Birmingham July 2026.

#remnants #birmingham #portra #birminghamheritageweek taken in Suffolk St Queensway by @section_8

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Long term anti nuclear protestor Mark Stewart. (Portrait) at Faslane Peace Camp. July 2026. #dycp #cnd #grandunion #wip @aceagrams taken in Faslane Peace Camp by @section_8

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