Working Lives: Bella Denise, Karolina Raczynski and Jade Sweeting | Exhibition | Four Corners

Bella Denise, Jade Sweeting and Karolina Raczynski are the recipients of Four Corners 2024/25 Working Lives Photography Commission. Selected from an open call, each photographer/filmmaker was awarded a grant to produce a project on the theme of working lives in Britain.

Exhibited here for the first time, these projects are resistant to the precarious, performance-driven and increasingly automated practices that define much of modern work. Drawing on analogue techniques and developed across five months, they show us another side of working lives, centered on craft, community and care.

Through richly textured prints and field recordings, Jade Sweeting builds a portrait of Lydia Noble, a traditional drystone waller whose work comes with a ‘hundred year guarantee’. Against the backdrop of rapid gentrification, Bella Denise uses techniques of ‘slow looking’ to consider the small local businesses at the heart of her community. Created with volunteers at the nearby Bethnal Green Nature Reserve, Karolina Raczynski’s multi-layered, plant-based film project broadens definitions of labour and rest.

Exhibition opening party | 10 April | 18.00 – 20.00

Exhibition runs | 11 April – 03 May | Weds – Sat | 11.00 – 18.00