Jake Gatehouse (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in photography and time-based media. His work is concerned with how photographic images exist and operate next to reality, as well as examining the role of performance in image making. Rather than seeing the photographic image as evidential, Gatehouse is interested in what photography inherently denies to the viewer. And is drawn to the ambiguous and contradictory nature of the medium. Utilising both analogue and digital practices, Gatehouse takes a conceptual approach to working whilst prioritising an intuitive and organic development during the making process.
Born and raised in Stockwell, South London, Gatehouse first started taking photographs on his phone, often whilst skateboarding. He considers skateboarding as fundamental to his creative development. Gatehouse then attended Elliott School in Putney where he first studied photography. He then graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in 2021 after studying the Fine Art Photography programme. Since graduating he’s exhibited at Stills Gallery where he was awarded 1st prize in the Jill Todd Futureproof award. The Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2023 exhibition, where he was awarded the NHS Lothian Charity Tonic Arts Award. And Flow Photography festival in Inverness in September 2023.
Exhibitions
2023, Flow Photo Fest, Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, 2023
2023, The Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries, Edinburgh
2021, Futureproof, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
2021, Off Grid #3, group show held at an abandoned location in Dennistoun Glasgow
2021, The Alternate Degree Show Festival, exhibiting at French Street Studios, Glasgow
2021, Off Grid #2, group show held at the abandoned Acre House in Maryhill Glasgow
2020, Off Grid, group show held at location under the motorway in Tradeston Glasgow
2020, Goose Chase, GSA 3rd Year Fine Art Photography show held at the studio pavilion at The House For An Art Lover, Glasgow
2020, ‘Wooden Lizzard’, GSA 3rd Year Fine Art Photography film screening at the CCA in Glasgow
2019, These Systems Are Not Static, Land Arts of the American West group exhibition held at the John Sommers Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque USA
2019, A Hard Place and a Rock, group exhibition at New Glasgow Society
2018, Rooted, group show held at West Princes Street in Glasgow
2018, Washed Up, group show, Cornwall
2018, IMG_001, GSA 1st year Fine Art Photography exhibition, 16 Nicholson Street, Glasgow
2016, Camberwell College of Art Foundation diploma in Art and Design end of year show, London
2014, Photofusion ‘Salon’ group exhibition, Brixton
Awards
NHS Lothian Charity Tonic Arts Award (2023)
The Jill Todd Futerproof Award: 1st Prize (2021)
Failed Submersion, 2020