A photographic exploration of sound including Jess Bonham, Linda Brownlee and Ryan Lowry

Visual Noise is a photography exhibition exploring “the visually intangible”. Curated by photography agency East and designers Studio Small, the show features six artists aiming to harness sound and display it in their own idiosyncratic visual style. These are Jess Bonham and Anna Lomax, Ryan Lowry, Linda Brownlee, Owen Silverwood and Leandro Farina.

East explains: “The ideas explored give an insight into the innumerable ways that we as humans interpret, react to and process sound.”

Photographer Jess Bonham and set designer Anna Lomax have collaborated on this series, inspired by onomatopoeic words they heard sound designers use on previous projects to describe various qualities of sound. The cheekily named shots, including Rich, Wet, Tinny, Tight, Hard and Juicy bring to life these abstract notions of noise.

Linda Brownlee has shot a series titled Finding Ulysses, drawing on memories from her childhood journeys across the Irish Sea on Ulysses – the name of the car ferry. Linda recalls these trips as full of “clamour, commotion and discordance pushing through the sometimes still, sometimes raging waters”. Her photos aim to “echo the mash of remembered sounds”.

Owen Silverwood’s project Celeste is much further from the familiar. Using audio recordings of celestial bodies in our solar system released by Nasa, he has 3D printed the sound files into physical objects, then photographed them and presented them as mixed media artworks.

Visual Noise runs until 13 November at Protein Studios in Shoreditch, London.