Ann Shelton
i am an old phenomenon
5 June - 11 July 2026
Plants act on us: they stain, intoxicate, soothe, inflame and alter our bodies. In i am an old phenomenon, plants are in motion and reaction: they burn, rot, float, and sink. They are wet, submerged and carnal. Drawing on medicinal and folkloric histories, these photographs evoke the permeable boundaries between plant and human worlds. Botanical specimens have long been collected, classified and named; photography is deeply entangled with these imperial systems of ordering. Ann Shelton’s images resist this containment. Plants expand beyond their frames, occupying unbounded, indeterminate spaces untethered from geography and taxonomy. With these works, Ann creates a rhizomatic archive in which histories and associations remain shifting, accumulative, and incomplete.
Waverley Taylor, June 2026
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
And as she said thanks and spoke spells (yarrow, yarroway, yerw, gearwe, field hop, achillea, archillia, old man’s pepper, devil’s nettle, devil’s plaything, bad man’s plaything, sanguinary, soldier’s woundwort, hundred leaved grass, thousand seal, thousand weed, carpenter’s weed, milfoil, millefolium, knight’s milfoil, knighten milfoil, nosebleed, herbe militaris, staunchweed, wild maiden herb, schafgarbe, bloodwort), 2022
Archival giclée print on Hahnemühle bamboo
840 x 1119 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
mese, golde, golds, ruddes, solis sponsa, solsequia, poor man’s saffron), 2023.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
1170 x 890 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
890 x 1170 mm
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Bamboo
890 x 1170 mm
