Andy Backhouse

A photographer, collagist and radio artist, Andy Backhouse makes work about memory and absence. He works from an idea that keeps returning: the past never fully disappears, and even events that never happened still shape the present.

Rather than tell a straightforward story, Andrew builds from fragments: sound, image and text that resist a single reading. He treats found and recorded material not as a record of what happened, but as raw material to reshape, layer and reposition. The result avoids a clear or literal reading. Instead it creates the sense of a half-remembered event: images blurred by sunlight, ideas that sit closer to a distant recollection than a precise account.