معرفی
Marjolaine Ryley is a Senior Lecturer in Photography at the University of Sunderland’s School of Creative Arts. Her practice spans analogue/digital photography, eco-printing, moving image, creative writing, and archival work, exploring themes linking personal experience to broader social/political narratives. She has exhibited internationally at venues like Street Level Photoworks Gallery and Impressions Gallery, and her mid-career retrospective This is What I See (2019) examined autobiography, memory, and counterculture through interdisciplinary methods.
- Teaching: BA (Hons) Photography, Video & Digital Imaging; MA Visual Practice
- Research: Focuses on photography’s role in ecology, family narratives, and invisible illness. Current PhD (Northern Bridge DTP) investigates gardening communities via auto-ethnographic photography.
Her work interrogates topics like ‘Women and Gardens’, radical gardening politics, and more-than-human ecologies. Notable projects include A Gardener’s Daughter (exploring wellbeing and feminist gardening) and Growing Up in the New Age (analyzing 1960s/70s countercultural legacies).
