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/

Location:

Gasworks Gallery - Aadieu Adieu Apa

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AADIEU ADIEU APA (Goodbye Goodbye Father)

a solo exhibition by Olivia Plender

25th September 2009 - 15th November 2009

AADIEU ADIEU APA (Goodbye Goodbye Father) is a new installation by Olivia Plender that delves into the history of mass public spectacle and its relationship to issues of sovereignty, by focusing in part, on the British Empire exhibition which took place in the west London suburb of Wembley in 1924. The exhibition also explores theatricality in politics in the present day and incorporates the artist's long standing interest in the theatre of the absurd, political satire and popular printing.

Photography for Stephanie Imbeau

A Photoshoot for the Artist Stephanie Imbeau.

Stephanie is a young American artist most known for her bold style and well thought out pieces. Her artwork is the product of her exploration of community, belonging, and the role that architecture plays in contextualizing life. She is interested in how homes and the built environment affect the way people live and interact with others. Play and exploration also have significant roles in her work, as she feels that retaining a sense of child-like wonder when looking at the world is important and an effective antidote to the stresses and anxieties faced in life. The use of industrial or everyday materials is a recurring theme throughout her work, pointing at the importance, beauty and significance of daily life.

A Quieter Place, 2009

Installation Photographs of a porcelain village which plays on the disparate ideas of solitude and community and the quiet places where they collide.

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.

GasWorks Gallery - Froebel Suite

A Photoshoot for the Gas Works Gallery

Froebel Suite, Aurélien Froment's first solo exhibition in a UK public space, continues the artist's ongoing reflection on the function and semantic power of images.

At Gasworks, Froment presents new works that turn images and objects into the subjects of scrutiny. In these works, a brick, a maritime knot and the image of the boat on the hill taken from Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo (1982) are presented out of their own contexts and dissected in a series of sequential photographs or, as it is the case with the latter work, through a conversation between the artist and Herzog.

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

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

Format 05

Format 05 brings together some of the best photographers from the UK and beyond to respond to the theme Documentary, Memory & Place in venues across the city. Artists include: Don McCullin, Willie Doherty, Tom Wood, Pavel Banka and more..

Exhibition: Frameworks, Banks Mill
Frameworks Presents work from the past five years by artists who studied at the University of Derby.

Face Values

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