Stuart Cashmore

A self-taught photographer based in London, I explore the hidden beauty within the built environment, focusing on elements often overlooked in daily life. My work transforms everyday objects — street furniture, reflections, architectural patterns — into abstract compositions of line, pattern, and colour. I challenge the viewer to see everyday objects in a new way, to see the beauty in a reflection, a bench, a flight of stairs, the shape a streetlamp makes against the sky.

Two main themes recur in my work: reflections, and steps/stairs. I love the distorted, surreal shapes thrown up by reflections in windows and glass-fronted buildings, and I’m fascinated by steps/stairs. They are an architectural koan: simultaneously static and dynamic, they go up and they go down, but they stay where they are.

My work has been exhibited at the London Photo Festival 2012 - 2019; the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2014; the East Finchley Arts Festival 2015 and 2018;; the London Art Biennale 2023; and Flux Exhibition 2024. I have had solo exhibitions at the Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, 2017; the Lexi Cinema, London, in 2019; and Beerblefish Brewery, London, in 2023. I have been invited to show at the Florence Biennale in October 2025.

UK