Joya: AiR / Charles Binns / ENG

"What are the memories I will treasure most of my time at Joya: AiR? Bee-eaters feeding on unseen insects above Joya one afternoon, swooping over the house time and time again to catch their lunch. Vultures performing a low level fly past as we reached the top of the hill and walked towards the rocks where they roost. Walking along barrancos, sometimes the right barranco, sometimes the wrong barranco; wandering through pine forests looking for fossils. Scrambling up to the ancient cave looking for prehistoric art and looking out over the landscape, the latest of a long line of visitors stretching back thousands of years. Sunsets and moonrises, watching satellites and shooting stars, listening to the music of the night.

Two weeks at Joya: AiR was a chance to stop, connect with nature and photograph the landscapes, a chance to read and plan future trips. A chance to relax and eat delicious food and sometimes do nothing at all. “

Charles Binns

Charles Binns is a photographer and artist based in the UK working with, amongst other things, photography, sculpture and printmaking. Landscape photography is a central core of his process and he produces images with alternative processes such as Kallitypes.

Education: 2018 to 2020 MA Contemporary Photography at Central St Martins, London.
Exhibitions:
2022
Patterns of Enquiry Espacio Gallery, London
2021
Last Chance Saloon (Reprise) Slash Arts, London
Last Chance Saloon Terre Verte, Launceston
The Things We Leave Behind TOD Gallery, Sevenoaks
Finally Ugly Duck Gallery, London.
Brave New World No Space Collective (online)
V1 Exhibition Flux Review (online)
Abstract Muse In
Togetherness Of Diversity Musebuz. (online)
2020
New Futures Digital The Art Vault, Kovet.Art (online)
My House is an Island Arthousehaus, London.
London Grads Now Saatchi Gallery, London.
3 Humans. Tension Fine Art Gallery, London.
2019
CSM Tate Exchange. Tate Modern, London.
The Fragile Ocean. Lumen Crypt Gallery, London.

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2021
The Working Artist February Issue
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2020
Tien Shan Mountains C41 Magazine 21 April
Turnford Brook Square Magazine Summer Edition.

Joya AiR / Charles Binns / ENG