Image credit: Aindreas Scholz, Soil Matters, 2022. Soil chromatography on Whatman filter paper. © Aindreas Scholz.
Soil as Image: Experimental Soil Chromatography with Aindreas Scholz
Join Artica and artist Aindreas Scholz for an introduction to experimental soil chromatography.
In this two-hour workshop, you’ll explore soil chromatography — an image-making process that transforms soil extracts into intricate circular patterns on paper. Working with local Svalbard soil samples, you’ll create your own chromatograms and discover how differences in soil composition can become visible through colour, form and pattern.
Alongside the practical process, we’ll consider soil as a living material, environmental archive and witness to ecological change. The workshop connects artistic experimentation with ecological observation and Aindreas’s wider research into more sustainable and climate-conscious approaches to photography.
This is a hands-on, experimental workshop with an emphasis on process and discovery. No previous experience is required.
When: Thursday 13 August, 18:00–20:00
Where: Artica Svalbard, vei 608-3 (next door to the fire station)
Participants: 8 places available, aged 18+
To book a place email: workshops@articasvalbard.no
About the artist
Aindreas Scholz is a German-Irish photographer and researcher based in London, working with cameraless and ecological photographic processes. His practice explores climate-adapted approaches to image-making, working with sunlight, water chemistry, plant matter, soils and other materials to allow environmental conditions to physically shape the photographic image.
During his residency at Artica, Aindreas is developing a new body of work responding to Svalbard’s changing Arctic environment. Working with processes including cyanotypes, lumen exposures and soil chromatography, his research considers how photography can work with — rather than simply represent — the landscapes, materials and ecological changes around us.