Between Two Truths - An Exhibition of Photography

This is the inaugural exhibition of Photography at the new Smokehouse Gallery based inside H. Forman & Son's salmon smokehouse on Hackney Wick's Fish Island. This is the centre of the capitals largest and fastest growing artistic community on the edge of the rapidly changing 2012 Olympic site. Opening on Thursday 6th May, and curated by Matthew Booth, this exhibition brings together strands of photography by Artists who are dealing with its elemental nature:- Light, Darkness, Shadows, Details, Focus, and the Illusion of Space - a new movement which is returning to the essence and origins of photography.

For more information please visit: http://smokehousegallery.wordpress.com/

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Hackney Citizen review of my Artwork

During my open studios at Hackney Wicked Festival   I was interviewed by Kirsty McQuire from the Hackney Citizen. This is the Article:

To read the entire article please visit: www.hackneycitizen.co.uk

Hackney Wicked Arts Festival

This years Hackney Wicked Art Festival was a major success.

Here are a few images courtesy of Annamal

If you were unable to make it this year, I look forward to seeing you next August.

Work in Progress..

Here are a few images from a coming series of reflections in my Black photograph.

Hossack and Grey

Tina Gibbard

These images are the beginnings of a series of Portraits of people involved in the Hackney Wick arts scene.

In taking one of my Black Photographs in to their studio and making a portrait of the Artist or Designer in their workspace in Hackney Wick, I am using my Black Photograph as a device to see things differently and creating an impressionistic series of photographs that verge on the painterly.

The Black Photograph, as it has a High Gloss finish, is very reflective. Showing through the gloss is the texture of the paper and the reflections seen in it are unclear; they are broken apart by the materiality of the paper and have quite a painterly, impressionistic quality. Leaving the 'image' to be made by the viewer when looking at the Photograph. These new photographs also have this quality, as the surface is also highly reflective, and the image dark and mysterious, and will reflect the viewer back upon themselves...

It is a kind of exploration on the process of the Work of Art, the Maker and the Viewer and the interplay between them, through the medium that is created.

On another thought...

These are some of the images I have been working on as part of my ongoing series on Untitled Interiors..

Printing during this week and next, I will hopefully have a few of these images ready to be shown at the Hackney WickED festival in our open studio here at Oslo House.

If you are interested in coming along it would be great to see you...
My open studio address is: Unit 16 East Wing Oslo House, 15 Prince Edward Road E9 5LT.
And the Festival runs from Friday 31st July - Sunday 2nd August.
There are loads of studios and a bunch of galleries in the area and with Bands, a Fete, Art Jumble sale, and Boat races you too can experience some of the fun that will be Hackney Wicked.

My Second week as a featured artist on Troika Editions

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MMoser Architects

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A photoshoot as a photographer for Valency Engine of the old EMI building as it is being gutted...

These images were taken for the Architects of the refit, however as discussed with them, the shoot went not so much to a brief but in a way more in keeping with much of my own work.

In being given the opportunity to photograph these spaces in my own style and without a commercial brief, It seems there may be the possibility of a commercial / artwork cross-over.....?

Now there is something to think about..

Troika Editions

I am pleased to let you know that a selection of my artwork has now gone online with Troika Editions and will be featured in this months Blueprint Magazine.

Please visit www.troikaeditions.co.uk to see my work or to watch the video. And look out for a copy of May's Blueprint - out this week.

Through the Lens - Royal West of England Academy. 8 June - 20 July 2008

Through the Lens : RWA Open Photography

8 June - 20 July 2008

The first RWA Exhibition to be devoted entirely to photography. Contemporary work from invited photographers and open submission.

View the online catalogue here

Self Portrait with Jo Davies 2008

Reflections in Black

This is the begining of a series of Photographs of the reflections in my 'Untitled Black Photograph'. The two images below were taken duing The Great Exhibition 2007 - Royal College of Art Summer Show, and are Portraits of the Artists, along with their work, who exhibited in the same space as me.

Fransisco Lobo, 2007

Ryan Mosley, 2007

The surface of the Black Photograph is glossy and highly reflective. Showing through the gloss is the texture of the paper and the reflections seen in it are unclear; they are broken apart by the materiality of the paper and have quite a painterly, impressionistic quality.

Hoopers Gallery - Summer Show

SUMMER SHOW - Royal College of Art 2007 Photography Graduates

The work of six graduates has been selected, with Gerd Hasler winning Hoopers’ special award for his photographs ‘on the threshold between landscape and photographic surface’. The work ranges from Simon Cunningham’s video projection to an examination of the essence of photography by Matthew Booth, the use of pinhole cameras by Lisa Byrne, and the still-life studies of Sunnifa Hope and Bianca Brunner.

Self Portrait in Black 2007 40x50"

For more information on this show please see the Hoopers Gallery website

The Great Exhibition 2007 - Royal College of Art Summer Show

Fine Art in the Great Exhibition

This year's Fine Art exhibition has been described by Charles Saatchi, the gallery owner and collector, as 'the best RCA degree show for years'.

Painting, Photography and Printmaking are showing the work of graduating and research students together in one exhibition, to mark the special 150 year anniversary. Sculpture, the fourth department from the School of Fine Art, has already exhibited in Battersea due to the scale and possibilities of the Howie Street site for large work.

The current philosophy of the School of Fine Art is that its four departments offer specialisms. Each department engages with an in-depth study of the discipline, understood as discourse constituted by a dynamic history of practices and theories. The specificity of each discipline also includes a necessary interdisciplinarity.

This year's show intends to demonstrate the necessary overlaps and relations between each discipline. A departure from all previous approaches, the departments have taken an overview together, and worked towards a unique and special meeting, a common ground. This is not a group exhibition of works, but of individual practices in a group. The work is woven together as one, and not separated by subject. The approaches are diverse, as are the media and scale of works, each artist pursuing her or his own practice uniquely, to their own ends. What binds the works together is their seriousness and depth, and qualities of real promise. Some projects are made and installed especially for this exhibition, whilst others are invested and produced across time.

My work exhibited in this show

Untitled Black Photograph #4 2007 65x81"

Grey Card - Almost 18% CMY 2007 40x50"

Self Portrait in Black #2 2007 40x50"

In thinking about photography, I think about the depiction of reality and its picture, the materiality of this picture and the context in which a viewer might encounter it. A photograph has as its referent a place within the real and to place a photograph without this referent places it within the realms of the imagination. In that imagination an image can be formed. A black photograph exists as a photograph of nothing. It has an ambiguous symbolism; the void creates a space within which the viewer can reflect upon himself or herself and the space in which the photograph is placed.

More information on this show and my fellow students who graduated at the same time as me is available on the RCA show website

New Artwork

Lets Dance - 2004.

Untitled Interior - 2004.

Dead Man - Angel - 2004.

University of Derby Final Show

Untitled Interiors 5 and 6. A Diptych considering advertising and consumer culture in the modern home.
This piece was first exhibited at i-sight, University of Derby 2004

Duckworth Square

Housing Homes

A pair of Diptychs that concider the utopian ideals in housing advertisements compared to the often dystopian 'realities' of actual paces.

Untitled Interiors

In keeping with the production of constructed spaces, this series of interiors, evokes a feeling of an institutional environment, cold and deserted, but ethereal in atmosphere.

Boundaries

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A 360 degree installation of slide projections. This Project is based on the idea of the restriction and illusion of space. Boundaries, both physical and emotional are created by projections of colour and form, that produce a view which incorporates the viewer into the piece. So that when in the space it is almost impossible to not cast a shadow.

White Walls

A series of Photographs of White Walls. The intention was to create a set of ambiguous spaces using white cardboard and the camera to shift scale, perspective and viewpoint.