Approved: 22.07.2009

Mark Adams

Artist

Approved: 22.07.2009

Mark Adams is an English photographer and academic. His photographic practice and research is situated within the broad context of landscape representation and involves an ongoing preoccupation with the meta-language of film and its distancing affect from observed reality. Over the past 20 years Adams has explored themes such as psychogeography, urban regeneration and Jean Baudrillard's concept

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    Artist Statement

    Mark Adams is an English photographer and academic. His photographic practice and research is situated within the broad context of landscape representation and involves an ongoing preoccupation with the meta-language of film and its distancing affect from observed reality. Over the past 20 years Adams has explored themes such as psychogeography, urban regeneration and Jean Baudrillard's concept of the simulacrum while photographing sites of architectural development and neglected urban or suburban environments. Much of this practice involves a process of walking as a significant factor in the creation of narrative.

    CV & Education

    Solo Exhibitions

    2016/17 - Waterways, Bradford Industrial Museum, West Yorkshire. 

    2015 - Third Space: Landscapes & Windows,  PS Mirabel, Manchester

     

    Group Exhibitions

    2018: Self Scapes, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.

    2017 - GM Art Prize, Chamber of Commerce, Manchester 

    2016 Northern Light, Exhibition and Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK

    2016 - Migration, Cross Street Arts, Wigan, UK

    2015 - Multiples, PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK

    2015 - 23:57 A Response to UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), Fuse, Bradford,

    2015 - Lubomirov-Easton, Athens, Greece

    2015 - Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol

    2014 - Seeing Beckett, Liverpool Irish Festival, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

    2014 - Art in the Eastside, Billboard Installation, Belfast, UK

    2014 - Seeing Beckett, Contemporary Art Space,  University of Chester, UK

    2014 - PS Mirabel Open Exhibition, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, UK

    2014 - ESPY Award, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales

    2014 - Royal Photographic Society , International Print Exhibition 156, Museum of Somerset, Taunton

    2013 - Royal Photographic Society, International Print Exhibition 156, Michael Heseltine Gallery, Banbury

    2013 - Royal Photographic Society , International Print Exhibition 156, The Civic, Barnsley

    2013 - Royal Photographic Society, International Print Exhibition 156, Shire Hall , Staffs

    2012 - Renaissance Photography Prize, Mall Galleries, London

    2012 - Signs, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

    2011 - Art Moves, Torun, Poland

    2011 - Kodachrome Exhibition, AOP, London

    2011 - Simulacrum, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales

    2010 - Visual Exhibition, Salford Business School, Salford, Greater Manchester

    2009 - Buy Art Fair, Urbis,, Manchester

    2009 - Instant: A Celebration of Polaroid , Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale, Lancashire

    2009 - SUN Awards , Matt and Phreds, Manchester

    2009 - Visual Exhibition, Nutmeg House, London

    2008 - KIOSK Photographers Exhibition, Urbis, Manchester

    2006 - Fotofest Houston, Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, Texas USA

    2005 - Photo National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA

    2005 - Sublime, Association of Photographers Gallery, London

    2004 - Bethesda International Photography Exhibition, Fraser Gallery,  Maryland, USA

    2004 -  Contemporary Artists Centre, North Adams, Massachusetts

     

    Degree shows

    2001 - MA Communication Art & Design, Degree Show, Royal College of Art

    1995 - BA (Hons) Graphic Arts, Degree Show, Anglia Polytechnic University

     

    Conferences & Seminars

    2018: Northern Light: Critical Approaches to Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography, Sheffield Hallam University, South Yorkshire 

    2018: Selfscapes, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.

    2016: TIRI Research Conference, University of Bolton, Greater Manchester 

    2009 - Photography & Images of the English North, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds City Museum, Leeds, Yorkshire

     

    Competitions, Prizes and Awards

    2017 Greater Manchester Art Prize (Runner up) 

    2009 - SUN Awards, Shot Up North, UK

    2005 - International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA

    2001 - Chris Garnham Memorial Prize, Royal College of Art, London

     

    Curatorial

    2016: Transition: Prints and Postcards, PS Mirabel, Manchester

    2018: Self Scapes, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.

     

    Publications

    2015 - Der Greif Magazine, Issue 8, Germany

    2015 - Art Monthly (Exhibition review)

    2014 - Paris Lit Up (Magazine) Issue #2

    2014 - Index - Cafe Royal Books (Book)

    2014 - London Independent Photography Magazine (Spring Issue)

    2013 - London Independent Photography Magazine (Spring Issue)

    2012 - Chased Magazine

    2011 - Seance Magazine (Online)

    2008 - Postcard, Laurence King Publishing (Book)

    2002 - Next Level Photography Magazine: Edition 2 Volume 1

    2001 - Next Level Photography Magazine: Edition 1 Volume 2

    1998 - The Independent Newspaper (UK) - Sunday Supplement

     

    Representation

    Millennium images (London)

    Arcangel Images (Malaga, Spain)

    IRIS Artistic Platform (Manchester)

     

    Commissions

    Routledge

    Random House

    Orion Books

    Little Brown and Company

    Macmillan Publishers

    Hodder and Stoughton

    Penguin Group

    Taylor and Francis

    Namara Design

    Harper Collins

    Form Design

    Stylorouge

    Peter Dyer Associates

    Pentagram

    Time Warner Books

    Bloomsbury Publishing

    Faber and Faber