10 14 Gallery, in London, presents the exhibition Still Formation by Jess Gough.
A world accumulates, image by image. This is a place of strange, sweet light, where fog bewilders, caves beckon and smoke curls out of craters. Landscape is not what it seems. A certain liquidity pervades. Viewpoints tilt. Glaciers slurp. Pathways gleam.
Drawn from eight years of work, Jess Gough’s photographs describe a world in transition, where matter is unsettled and everything slips between states: clotted shorelines, pearly ridges and rocks that appear gelatinous. Curious openings appear in earth and metal, where natural and human-made forms echo one another in a shared vocabulary.
In Still Formation, darkroom prints sit alongside photopolymer etchings and their iridescent metal plates – part image, part relic – each a sustained study of materiality, following surfaces until the familiar tips into the unknown.
Jess Gough is a photographic artist whose practice is grounded in a close observation of landscape and the human traces it absorbs. She photographs both natural and built environ- ments with an intimacy that blurs the distinction between the vast and the microscopic.
Using analogue processes and printmaking, her work is marked by a material curiosity and experimentation. The resulting images sit between what is familiar and strange, inviting a closer consideration of the physical world. She has self-published several bodies of work and has undertaken commissions for publications including Atmos, Document Journal and FT Weekend Magazine. Still Formation is her first solo gallery exhibition in London.
www.jessgough.com
@jess gough
The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Izabella Scott.
Jess Gough : Still Formation
June 26 – August 4, 2026
10 14 Gallery
10-14 Crossway
London N16 8HX, United Kingdom
www.1014.gallery
@1014.gallery
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