Ellie Wyatt guided the audience through an investigation of how photographic and digital images are selected, composited, disseminated and co-opted in service of myriad belief systems, from UFO conspiracy theories and apocalypse myths to political agendas and the cult of celebrity. The artist provided a tour behind the making of her work cherrypicker, which incorporates over a thousand found images in a fast-paced, infinitely looping sequence, immersing, seducing and overwhelming the viewer in an eerie and uncomfortable world of Illuminati, ghosts, Google street views, alien civilisations, and Kate Middleton’s knees. Connecting diverse image contents, Wyatt focused on the circulatory powers of low-quality photographs online, and their lasting connection to ideas of “evidence” and “truth”.

Ellie Wyatt is a visual artist, writer, lecturer and educator based in London. Her research-led practice seeks to challenge how objectivity is represented, cultivated and often fabricated within science and visual cultures. She works across printmaking, publication, installation, moving image and text, as well as participatory projects including site explorations, talks, workshops and seminars.

Screen Walks is a series of live-streamed artist/researcher-led explorations of online spaces and artistic strategies designed to illuminate a thriving – often overlooked – digital cultural scene. An online collaboration between The Photographers’ Gallery, UK and Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland.