Aidan Gageler

Aidan Gageler (b.1998) is an Australian visual artist working across the expanded field of photography. In 2020, he completed his BA (Hons) Fine Art with First Class Honours at Camberwell College of the Arts, a school of the University of the Arts London. He now lives and works in Newcastle.

Aidan primarily works in the darkroom but does not limit himself to convention. He works with found and long expired photographic papers, film and chemistry to produce abstract and unconventional images that would not be immediately recognisable as photography. He likes the tradition and methodology of photography but finds pictorial images limiting.

Rather, he subscribes to a philosophy of Konkrete fotografie in which the medium turns its focus on ‘inner conditions’ instead of simply a means of replicating ‘external objects.’ His work offers its audience an encounter with photography in its most immediate form, inscribed only (and slowly) by light, time, and chemistry. It celebrates the medium’s capacity to refer exclusively to itself and prioritise its own object over those accumulated by the world around it.

Aidan is also a conservation grade picture framer.