Artist statement
Concepts
My main area of exploration, via photography, concerns the correlation between internal states and the visible world. Tactile methods of production, beyond straight, chemically produced images or digital prints, are of particular interest. Recent work, concerned with memory and expressive dance, uses video and the sequencing of stills.
Teaching Experience
1994-present, Part-time Lecturer on Foundation, Photography (BA and MA) and various other degree programmes, University College Falmouth, Cornwall.
Areas of Work
Tertiary education
Adult education
Exhibiting
Practice based research
Residencies
Workshops
Qualifications and training
- 2003 MA Fine Art (Distinction), University College Falmouth, Cornwall
- 1986 BA Photography, Polytechnic of Central London, London
- 1981 Foundation Art, Hounslow Borough College, Isleworth, London
- 1971 BA English (Hons), Leicester University, Leicester
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 Solo show, Innovations Centre, Exeter University
- 2011 A Certain Slant of Light, Millenium Gallery, St Ives
Group exhibitions
- 2012 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells
- 2012 Colour Remains, NSA show, Helen Feiler Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance
- 2012 A Fine Catch, NSA Show, Helen Feiler Gallery, Newlyn
- 2011 Winter Show, New Millenium Gallery, St Ives
- 2011 Uncharted Landscapes, NSA show at St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives
- 2011 Print!, The Exhange, Penzance
- 2010 Winter Show, New Millenium Gallery, St Ives
- 2010 'Reality Check', Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2009 'NSA Three Galleries', Great Atlantic Falmouth, Rainyday Penzance, Westcotts St Ives
- 2009 'A Cornish Perspective', Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 2008 Exhibition, Salt Gallery, Hayle
- 2008 'Working Small', The Exchange, Penzance
- 2007 'Lineage', Newlyn Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance
- 2007 'Unquiet Earth', St Ives Society of Artists, St Ives
- 2006 Working Small, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2006 'At Home', Salt Gallery, Hayle
- 2005 NSA Exhibition, Thompson's The City Gallery, London
- 2004 'Drawing', Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2004 Exhibition, Salt Gallery, Hayle
- 2003 'Visual Eyes', Cornerstone Gallery, St Ives
- 2003 'ID' Identity, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2003 Critic's Choice (Joan Bakewell), Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2002 Critic's Choice (Mel Gooding), Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2002 'Chiaroscuro', Vallico Sotto, Lucca, Italy
- 2002 Film Festival, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
- 2002 Cornish Film Festival, Falmouth Arts Centre, Falmouth
- 2001 Obsession, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2001 Critics Choice, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2000 The Other Hand, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 2000 Landlines, Beaford Arts Centre, Devon
- 2000 Distance Yourself, The Place Theatre, London
- 1999 Shadow, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 1999 Micro Macro, Falmouth College of Arts, Falmouth
- 1999 The Dividing Line, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 1999 Untitled #5, Falmouth College of Arts
- 1999 Second Bi-Annual Contemporary Arts Show, Dublin
- 1998 Summer Show, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
- 1997 Summer Light, Falmouth Arts Centre, Falmouth
- 1997 Limelight, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 1996 Winter Exhibition, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance
- 1996 The Dead, National Museum of Photography Film and Television Bradford, Horsens Museum Denmark, Gallery of the Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts Montreal, Canada
- 1984 The Selectors' Show, Camerawork, Bethnal Green, London
- 1982 Triplicity, The Angel Intersection Gallery, Islington, London
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells
- 2012 Wells Art Contemporary, Wells and Mendip Museum, Wells
Publications
Other
- 2001 Film 'Distance Yourself Young Man', in collaboration with Angela Praed of C.O.D dance company, part of Action Dance Southwest's collection of films
- 2000 The Art of The Matter, Special report by Carlton SW Television, ITV
- 2000 2 screen video installation for live dance performance 'Distance Yourself Young Man', The Place Theatre London, Falmouth College of Arts and The Barbican, Plymouth
- 1998 Vile Bodies: The Dead, profile of work in film for Channel Four, ITV. Book accompanied film entitled 'Vile Bodies: Photography and the Crisis of Looking' by Chris Townsend
