Subjective View is a collection of work by Frankie McAllister, selected and collated from a number of different series’ by the Observatory Gallery. It is a distinct collection coalescing around common themes, principally her visceral response to landscape and the feelings evoked. These images, originating from different places and times, all employ an instinctive approach to create impressionist imagery exploring connection to landscape and nature through associated memories and emotions. The experience of landscape is never a neutral or objective thing and a photograph cannot really be a completely accurate record, it is always a reflection of what the photographer receives and perceives in a given moment – there is a unique and transitory relationship between the two, a dialogue if you like. The intention is to create images that look the way a particular landscape felt in the moment, rather than attempting to show it the way it ‘is’. Some of the scenes are imaginary, an amalgam of different moments, remembered perhaps, or absorbed through the telling of others.
Runs: 16 January – 15 July 2026
Open: Monday to Friday 9.00 am. to 5.00 pm.
Gallery: The Observatory Gallery and Cafe, 64 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AB
Images by: Frankie McAllister
Additional Information: www.theobservatory.org
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