17/06/2026
Mark Wilby’s photographic exhibition, Terminus, challenges the assumptions that shape how we see and understand the world. Created through a deliberately destabilising photographic process—without looking through the viewfinder and without cropping, editing or post-processing—the images resist easy recognition and invite a different way of seeing.
For the artist, doubt has long been the driving force behind a career that has moved between art-making, arts education and film production design, and across mediums including sculpture, installation, video and photography. Now returned to the studio after decades of creative and educational practice, Wilby embraces questioning as a method, allowing uncertainty to shape both process and outcome.
Rather than presenting familiar scenes, the photographs become traces of encounters with places and things, allowing meaning to emerge through attention, memory and perception. As viewers search for orientation within the images and their minimal titles, they are invited to reflect on the expectations they bring to the act of looking.
At the intersection of image and viewer, Terminus creates space for uncertainty, trust and discovery—reminding us that perception is never neutral, but always shaped by how we choose to see.
This exhibition runs daily during the Festival 09:00 to 17:00 | Atherstone Gallery: Monument Building
Daily entry to the exhibitions is free.
The scheduled walkabouts have a minimal cost and booking is essential.
