Signal Film and Media

2023 - 2026

My Star Fields series was Comissioned by Signal Film and Media as part of their Artist Development Lab.

The work was shown in their Artist Lab Exhibition - 28 November 2025 - 31 January  2026. 


This expansive exhibition marks the culmination of 2 years of artist development, experimentation, and deep ecological enquiry as part of SIGNAL’s Artist Development Lab.

Liam Collins’ Star Fields (2025) transforms grains of sand from Walney Island into a new galaxy through photograms, questioning scale and the truthfulness of photography.

“By scattering Walney Island sand across film and developing a negative, photographer Liam Collins raises vertiginous questions of scale in ‘Star Fields’ (2025), where every grain is a star in a new galaxy. Knowing these suns are pinpricks of shell and stone transforms the galactic into the microbial, both staggeringly large and vanishingly small.” – Simon Sylvester, Corridor8


RA 16h 41m 23s Dec -45° 59′ 12″
RA 14h 03m 12s Dec +29° 18′ 30″
RA 12h 15m 08s Dec -11° 38′ 45″