JAKE GATEHOUSE
Cluster Photography & Print Exhibitor | 2025
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.43
Born and raised in Stockwell, South London, Gatehouse first started taking photographs on his phone, often whilst skateboarding. He considers skateboarding as fundamental to his creative development. Gatehouse then attended Elliott School in Putney where he first studied photography. He went on to graduate from The Glasgow School of Art in 2021 after studying the Fine Art Photography programme. Since graduating he’s exhibited multiple times including at Stills Gallery where he was awarded 1st prize in the Jill Todd Futureproof award. The Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries 2023 exhibition, where he was awarded the NHS Lothian Charity Tonic Arts Award. And Flow Photography festival in Inverness in September 2023.
Jake Gatehouse (b.1996) is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in photography and time-based media. His work is concerned with how photographic images exist and operate next to reality, as well as examining the role of performance in image making. Rather than seeing the photographic image as evidential, Gatehouse is interested in what photography inherently denies to the viewer. And is drawn to the ambiguous and contradictory nature of the medium. Utilising both analogue and digital practices, Gatehouse takes a conceptual approach to working whilst prioritising an intuitive and organic development during the making process.
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.09
“I am a multidisciplinary artist specialising in photography and time-based media.
The work I’m exhibiting is a selection of Submerged Self-portraits from my long-term series entitled ‘These Systems Are Not Static’.”
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.25
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.51
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“Using a large format 4×5 camera and a mechanical self-timer. I set off the timer and then run into water (be that the sea, river, lake, loch and so on) and then dunk under before the shutter is released.
The project is an ongoing investigation into how we perceive and interact with our environment but also the implications of image making at this time of climate and political crisis.”
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.42
“Using a large format 4×5 camera and a mechanical self-timer. I set off the timer and then run into water (be that the sea, river, lake, loch and so on) and then dunk under before the shutter is released.
The project is an ongoing investigation into how we perceive and interact with our environment but also the implications of image making at this time of climate and political crisis.”
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.12
SUBMERGED SELF PORTRAIT NO.28
“Despite calling them self-portraits I don’t consider the pictures to be representative of me or of my experience. Far from it. I am more interested in the implications of what can occur from denying information in photography rather than displaying it.
I currently have made 51 successful Submerged Self-portraits spanning a four-year period between 2019 - 2023. And am currently working on producing a publication.”