Yesterday was our first full day in Gallery 3 inside Ipswich Town Hall. Most of the day was spent setting up lighting and completing the hang that we started on Monday afternoon following the tear down in Ipswich Art School Gallery. It was rather sad pulling our work off the walls but such a privilege […]
Street Art and all that
Today I went up to London to collect my rejects from Taylor Wessing 2013 with Keith Locke who had managed to get into the last 300 selected from 5410 entries. Pretty good going for Keith and a stunning image to boot. On the way we diverted to the Whitechapel Gallery and detoured down Brick Lane […]
Ephemera
I am part of a collective of photographers who operate under the banner ‘equals’ and the group blog is at http://equalsphoto.wordpress.com/ We met up on Monday to finalise our activities for a 2 week residency that we are taking up in Ipswich Town Hall. As a part of that activity we are producing work that […]
Anacondas
Today was not a good day. We took mother-in-law’s stuff to the auctioneers. What an unpleasant experience with predatory anaconda like humans with boggly eyes searching out what was being unpacked and that was after the ‘quality’ furniture had been discarded at the door. Not a nice place to be.
Past, present, future
I attended an interesting day hosted by Ipswich Museum yesterday. Two of our current photography lecturers at UCS, Mark Edwards and Matthew Andrew presented a session in the museum using artefacts that the museum staff, Debbie and Rachel had put together ranging from circa 1840ish through to early 20th century (I think), maybe earlier. The […]
Summer placement Ipswich Museum
I have just completed a 12 day placement at Ipswich Museum working with curator Emma Roodhouse. Never in a month of Sunday’s would I have imagined how interesting this assignment would be. I have had a fascinating insight to the workings of the museum, Ipswich Art School Gallery, and Christchurch Mansion including Wolsey Art Gallery […]
Owens After Constable
Recently, I have been very privileged to record the Constable exhibition at Wolsey Art Gallery in Ipswich. I was able to witness the removal of the Millstream from the frame for a picture conservator to assess the condition and recommend restorative/conservation needs. this is a once in a lifetime event and to cap it all […]
and then the cupboard was bare….
Yesterday signalled a very sad day indeed as we finally locked the door on my mother-in-law’s home. Barely 7 months have passed since we had to place her into a dementia care home and virtually 33 years since she put us up there when we moved from London to Felixstowe. Obviously the end of the […]
Out of the closet
I had the delightful task today of shooting ‘Out of the closet’ rooms settings and frocks at Christchurch Mansion, Ipswich. It literally took the whole day lugging heavy camera gear around the various rooms in the mansion but the results speak for themselves. I never fail to be amazed at the detailed work(wo)manship in garments […]
Waldringfield rape and barley
At the beginning of the month I went in search of the Bowser in my earlier post. Could I find it? No such luck but a left here and a right there and suddenly before my eyes was a Constable and maybe a Monet unfolding. Out came the Toyo from the boot and the last […]