About The Artist
Bex Wade (they/them) is a British artist whose work has been published and exhibited internationally, with multiple pieces in the permanent photography collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, including a work on permanent display in the Young V&A. Over nearly two decades, Wade has documented queer lives in their power and complexity. Known for images that centre community, protest and connection, their practice is grounded in the politics of visibility, solidarity and resistance.
Alongside this work, Wade has long found solace in the landscape. These photographs, made across deserts and distant terrains, reveal a quieter strand of their practice. They began as moments of reprieve and recovery, a way to pause and reflect on environment and place. Freed from the human relationships that shape their documentary images, these works open another kind of intimacy, a dialogue with space, time and the traces left behind. This collection, created with Smithson Projects, gathers those in between moments: landscapes that offer stillness, distance and a renewed sense of perspective.
