Artist statement
Anthony Carr is an artist and photographer whose current practice is predominantly focused on lo-fi photographic processes. He creates images using various methods of primitive production, from the assembling of homemade pinhole cameras to the constructing of room-sized camera obscuras. Often demanding extremely long exposure times, the pinhole photographs can have a typical exposure lasting anywhere from a few weeks to several months. He is fascinated by the marks and subtleties that manifest over time, with only the trace of human activity seen for instance in the routine shifting of furniture or the repeated laying of a table.
Carr's documentary approach is heavily influenced by our surveillance culture and he has always been fascinated by the elevated viewpoint of CCTV cameras and the quality of images they produce. From their distinct position surveillance cameras are able to silently and constantly observe. This continuous watching without blinking relates directly to his own work and while everything is recorded, virtually nothing but a hint of this is seen in the work. Months mirror moments.
Carr’s recent projects have captured interiors, exteriors and landscapes from grandiose English houses in Great Windsor Park (24,7,17) and Burghley estate (A Burghley Season) to the forgotten landscape of Milton Keynes’ city centre park (The Forgotten Quarter: An Obscured Camera Production) and the nocturnal cityscape of Derby (A Month of Nights, Derby).
Anthony Carr lives and works in London.
Qualifications and training
- 1999 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Printmaking, Winchester School Of Art, Winchester
Solo exhibitions
- 2011 A Burghley Season, Goody Rudkin Room, Burghley House, Lincolnshire
- 2011 NINEandFIVE, UCMK Gallery, Milton Keynes
- 2011 A Month of Nights, Derby, part of Format 11 International Photography Festival, Pickford's House Museum, Derby
- 2010 The Forgotten Quarter: An Obscured Camera Production, FringeMK Project Space 1, Milton Keynes
- 2010 Long Exposures and Ghost Houses, Norwich Art Centre, Norwich
- 2002 Barbican Through the Looking Glass, The Barbican Library, London
Group exhibitions
- 2013 Super Scale, Arbeit Gallery, London
- 2013 E Book Show, John Hansard Gallery Central, Southampton
- 2012 Vulpes Vulpes Open 2012, Vulpes Vulpes Gallery, London
- 2012 Zeitgeist Open 2012, Bond House Project Space, London
- 2012 Hidden/ Exposed, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
- 2012 Transience, Photography Open Salon, China House, George Town, Malaysia
- 2011 Case Open, part of Ways Of Looking Photography Festival, Pop Up art space, Bradford
- 2011 Transience, Photography Open Salon 2011, part of Les Rencontres d’Arles, International Photography Festival, Galerie Huit, Arles, France
- 2011 UCLH Exhibition and Auction, Her House Gallery, London
- 2010 Summer Exhibition SE1, Vitrine Gallery, London
- 2010 BHVU Open '10, Basket House Village Universe, London
- 2009 From Here, Brighton Photo Fringe Open '09, Moore House, Brighton
- 2009 Unique Perspectives, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham
- 2009 Site09 Darbyshire Award, Museum In The Park, Stroud
- 2009 1984, Kowalsky Gallery, London
- 2008 Champagne Bar and Grill, Metro's, Milton Keynes
- 2007 By Appointment, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor
- 2007 Even Clean Hands Leave Marks, Avenue Gallery, Northampton
- 2007 Time, Burghley House Contemporary Sculpture Garden, Nr Stamford
- 2006 Making Visible, part of Brighton Photo Fringe 2006, Charleston Farmhouse, Nr Firle
- 2004 Bad Quality, Lighthouse Gallery, Poole Centre for the Arts, Poole
- 2003 Bad Quality, Winchester Gallery, Winchester
- 2003 Bad Quality, New Greenham Arts, New Greenham Park
- 2003 Bad Quality, Millais Gallery, Southampton
- 2002 Open Shutter, Bracknell Gallery, Bracknell
- 2001 The Value Of Straight Thinking, Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast
- 2001 DNA, The Spitz Gallery, London
- 2000 Viewfinder, Southside Arts, Southampton
- 2000 North East Open, The Globe Gallery, Newcastle
- 2000 Defining The Times, Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes
- 1999 Dare, Angelus Gallery, Winchester
Residencies
- 2005 In+Visible Residency and Commission, Willingdon Community School, Willingdon, Nr Eastbourne
Competitions, prizes and awards
- 2012 Silverprint Pinhole Competition 2012 (Gold Prize Winner), Silverprint Gallery, London
- 1999 The Lina Garnade Memorial Prize, Winchester School Of Art, Winchester
Publications
- 2012 ‘A Month of Nights, Derby’ reviewed in fLIP magazine, Routes Issue, #23
- 2012 'A Month Of Nights, Derby'. Self-published photo book
- 2011 ‘A Month of Nights in Derby’ published in Exposure section of fLIP magazine, Street Life Issue, #18
- 2010 'My Way' story behind 24,7,17 series published in fLIP magazine, Leisure Issue, #16
- 2009 Interventions, Milton Keynes 2009. A Sitting Ducks artist collective publication
- 2005 /06 Leisure Centre fanzine contributor. Issue 2, 5 and 6
Other
- 2012 'A Month of Nights, Derby', accepted onto SHOWCASE pages, Photoworks.org website
- 2011 Collection, Universtity College, London Hospital
- 2011 A Month of Days, Derby, Online photographic exhibition, Derby Museums Online
- 2006 Founding member, Sitting Ducks Artist Collective, Milton Keynes
- 2006 Collection, University Of Leicester, Management Centre
- 1999 to the present, Various Private, Collections
