2025 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize

Studio Window

Mungo Howard

Studio Window, 2025 acrylic, binder, inkjet toner and paper on hessian 179 x 119 x 3.5 cm

A photographic transfer print of my own studio window, implicitly a kind of self portrait. The 1:1 scale and grids of both the depicted and real surface muddy the distinctions between sculpture and photography. A dusty, translucent window surface makes analogy to the medium of glass and shadows and nods to one of its earliest examples – Fox Talbot’s Window at Lacock Abbey, but here it is reversed – looking into an artificial light, not outwards to the sun.