Mistress of Fluid Language
Photograph by Peter Eastway. Print Size: 90x112 cm. Edition of 5.

As part of the exhibition process, I wrote a series of notes to accompany the Artist Statement and thought they would make an interesting series of newsletter posts. I'll begin with the Artist Statement. The accompanying print is a quick iPhone photo of the print on the wall at Castello Ceconi Art Gallery in Italy. 

Need it matter where a photograph is created? Should latitude and longitude define nuance and design? Intrinsically Earth’s myriad marks and scratchings are volatile, fleeting, ephemeral. Some live for just a few hours, the waves and tides washing away their evidence. More resilient formations may span millennia, recognisable yet less ephemeral. 

Searching below, we orchestrate fleeting moments of recognition, of choice, of delivery; when the structure of the landscape reveals a sense of shape, of design, an interpretation. These images need no precise waypoints. Indeed they may no longer exist. Maybe they never did.

For 40 years, Peter Eastway and Tony Hewitt have been immersed in the medium of photography, exploring projects together where their imagination and craft allow them to translate the clinical capture of a camera into a romantic or poetic expression. Based on the remote and exotic locations they photograph, the resulting works are proudly conceptual. Society has become digital and ephemeral, experienced fleetingly on tiny screens, flawed by commercial sharpness and technological perfection. A sameness is starting to permeate our culture, challenged by artificial intelligence and shadowed by fake news.

With this exhibition, Tony and Peter recognise the time-honoured importance of the print and the expression of pigment ink on paper. Their approach is deeply personal and their methods bespoke. They offer no geographical evidence and while the camera’s captures can be given both a precise location and date, the rendered results are intentionally interpretive.

They need neither time nor place.

The No Place | No Time exhibition by Peter Eastway and Tony Hewitt opened 4 July 2026 and will remain open at Castello Ceconi in Italy until 31 October 2026. While there is access to the castle grounds at any time, to see the exhibition inside please check the times or make an appointment. You can see more on the Graphistudio website or here: https://graphistudio.myshopify.com/pages/no-place-no-time-exibition-opening