Dylan Garcia, BA, MA.
Dylan Garcia is a lens based artist living in southern England. He is a member OVADA (Oxfordshire Visual Arts Development Agency).
He was awarded the Daylight/Format24 Award.
He has exhibited in Tokyo, London, Athens, Rome, Oxford, Cambridge, and at the Chester Photographic Festival (UK).
Dylans Photobook Brythonic is in the collections of the The Tate, National Art Library V&A Kensington, Photo Book Cafe, The British Library (All London UK), Hasselblad Foundation (Gothenburg Sweden), Ephemera (Tokyo Japan) PHMuseum (Bologna Italy), Getty Museum (Los Angeles USA), Aperture (New York USA), The Photo Book Museum (Cologne Germany) and Serchia Gallery, Martin Par Foundation Collection (Bristol UK), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead UK).
Dylan has a BA in Graphics (Photography) from Norwich School of Art, MA Photography from Falmouth University.
Dylan Garcia's practice deals with issues of time, history, mythology, human consciousness and how this relates to the natural world.
Projects
The New Aesthetic Movement
Dylan Garcias Project, The New Aesthetic Movement is inspired by being in nature, and the life of Oskar Wild, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Morris. Dylans work is a celebration of life itself. Dylan is enamoured by the victorian Aesthetic Movement both visually and philosophically.
“Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity”. Oscar Wild.
“If others can see it as I have seen it, then it may be called a vision rather than a dream.” William Morris.
“It is beautiful, the world, and life itself. I am glad I have lived”. Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
Brythonic
How can deliberately destroying a photograph contained within a book of art ever make any kind on sense ? Well, Dylan Garcias beautiful Brythonic, which examines the damage caused by rising sea levels both in pre-history and today, includes a print that will dissolve slowly if immersed in water. Gordon Cairns, B+W Photography.
Dylan Garcia’s book ‘Brythonic’ is a beautifully produced, unusual and highly personal exploration of time, memory and myth. Richard Kalman, Crane Kalman Brighton.
"It is a fantastic book and great images" Stefan Jensen. Hasselblad Foundation.
Brythonic is a project dealing with, time, deeptime, climate change and Britain
real or mythological.
Geo-mythology is the study of geological events that turn into legends. Brythonic is a group of celtic languages including Welsh, Cornish, and Breton. The Brythonic Legends are The Lowland Hundred (Wales) Kêr-Is (Britany) Lyonesse (Cornwall). The Brythonic legends give us a warning of human inaction. This inaction led to whole lands disappearing under the sea. These Legends are a warning from the past. A warning about rising sea levels leading to cultures and civilisations disappearing. We are in a time when climate anxiety is rising. A fear of climate change and a concern about the survival of human species. There have been many other lost lands historically and later in legends.
As climate change occurs Britain will become more tropical. But as well as being the future this is also a view of the past. So a Future-Past, we may return to the days when lions and hippos roamed the banks of the Thames. As climate change returns to Britain, the plants and land will change. We will become a wetter warmer land.
The legends of drowned lands are common in many Northern European cultures. They are a historic echo of Doggerland, a submerged land under the North Sea.
Dylan Garcias Photobook, Brythonic is Available at the Prints section of this website and at
www.setantabooks.com Brythonic
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Dylan Garcia, MA.
Born in 1968, Isle of Wight, UK.
Resides and works in Reading, UK.
Associate of OVADA (Oxfordshire Visual Arts Development Agency)
Daylight Award, Format24 Portfolio Review Award.
Education and Training
2025 Creative Toolkit, Photographers Gallery, London, UK.
2024 Inside Out: The Workings of a Photographic Gallery, Photographers Gallery/University of Westminster, London, UK
2023 MA Photography, Merit, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK.
1991 BA 2.1 Graphic Design (Photography) Norfolk Institute of Art and Design, Norwich, UK
Selected Exhibitions
2026. The Cambridge Festival, (Photobook Exhibit). Cambridge University. Cambridge.UK.
2026. Shutterhub Open 2026 (Group Exhibit). ARB building. Cambridge University. Cambridge. UK.
2026. Environment (Group Exhibit). Glasgow Gallery of Photography. Glasgow. UK.
2025, Ephemere Foto Fest, Gallery Conceal Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan.
2025, Brythonic Exhibition (Solo Exhibition), Photo Book Cafe, London, UK.
2025, Artdoc Photography Magazine, Monochrome Silence, The Meditative Lens, (Group exhibit). Online.
2025, Royal Photographic Society, Visual Art Group Exhibition/Landmark Arts Centre, London, UK.
2025, Royal Photographic Society, Visual Art Group Exhibition/The Riverfront Arts Centre, Newport Wales, UK.
2025, Photopolis Agrinio Photo Festival, Mother Nature, Mother Earth (Group exhibit), Christos Capralos Art Gallery, Agrinio, Greece.
2025, Chester Photo Festival (Featured Artist), Making Voices Heard, Chester, UK.
2025, Oxford Festival of the Arts, What is Your Oxford Exhibition (Group Exhibit), Pembroke JCR Art Gallery, Oxford, UK.
2025, The Queue (Group Exhibit), OVADA, Oxford, UK.
2025, 3rd BW Athens Photo Festival (Group Exhibit) Serafio City of Athens, Athens, Greece.
2025, Book & Zine Fair /Shutter Hub OPEN 2025 exhibition, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
2024/25, To The Sea/Shutterhub (Group Exhibit) Seafront Gallery, Worthing, UK.
2024, Your Lens Your Truth/The Sainsbury Centre/Shutterhub, (Group Exhibit) Online Exhibition.
2024, Seascapes/The Glasgow Centre of Photography, (Group Exhibit) Glasgow, UK.
2024, Concave Festival 2024/OVADA/Portable, Oxford/Bonn, UK/Germany.
2024, Expressive Nature/Artdoc Magazine (Group Exhibit) Online Exhibition.
2024, OVADA Instagram Take Over, OVADA Associate Featured Artist.
2024, Radiant Horizons/Cista Arts (Group Exhibit) Online Exhibition.
2024, Mythology/Loosen Art (Group Exhibit) Rome, Italy.
2024, BIG20/OVADA, (Group Exhibit) Oxford, UK.
2024, New Beginnings/Badger in the Wall Gallery (Group Exhibit) Clapham, UK.
2023/24, To The Sea/Shutterhub (Group Exhibit) St Gilles Croix de Vie, France.
2023, Healing Nature/Through my Lens (Group Exhibit) Artdoc Online Exhibition
2023, Otherland, Reading Biscuit Factory, Reading, UK.
2023, Brythonic, Hollybrook Gallery, Reading, UK.
2022, Falmouth MA(Group Exhibit), Rottingdean Heritage, Brighton, UK.
2014, Californian Mythology, Quay Arts. Newport, Isle of Wight, UK.
Collections
Aperture, New York, USA.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK.
The British Library, London, UK.
Ephemera, Tokyo, Japan.
Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA.
Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Martin Par Foundation Collection, Bristol, UK.
PHMuseum, Bologna, Italy.
Photo Book Cafe, London, UK.
The Photo Book Museum, Cologne, Germany.
Picnic, St Leonards on Sea, UK.
Serchia Gallery, Bristol, UK.
Tate Britain, London, UK.
V&A Kensington, London, UK.
Digital Content
OVADA Associates Feature Artist: Dylan Garcia
blog/ovada-associates-feature-artist-dylan-garcia
Dylan Garcia On Landscape
Hope-in-an-age-of-climate-change
Dylan Garcia/Hope. Daylight Books/Format Festival
Daylight Books/Format Festival
Caversham Bridge
Source Magazine
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