Last December I took delivery of a larger pixel density digital camera. On of the first things I did with it was to re-visit the Sproughton site of my 5 very large C-types in the current Edgelands exhibition at the Museum of East Anglian Life. The detail in this image is very good indeed and […]
Re-visiting Edgelands and missing treacle tart
This morning Mrs O and I went over to the Museum of East Anglian Life to see the exhibition on the first full day it was open to the public. I have virtually lived the exhibition since I completed the maquette with scale images but Mrs O was far too busy on the PV to […]
Edgelands PV
Last night the Museum of East Anglian Life held the PV for my 8 month run of Edgelands. Mrs O and I got there early to help with last minute preparations including limiting the number of people in the gallery on account of floor loading – a new threshold for the Museum! The guests (49 […]
Retrospectives, student shows and gearing up to Edgelands
The last few weeks have been full on. Starting with the UCS Arts Faculty student shows, a retrospective by Borin Van Loon in the Freudian Sheep, a pop-up exhibition by UCS photography students in Hoxton, collecting framed work from MF Frames, oh, and throw in working in Newcastle for a few days and an AGM […]
Quiet of late but things are stirring
Since my last post, I have been all over the place, working away, getting prints to the framers, producing marketing material, visiting exhibitions of other artists’ works …. I am gearing up for my first solo exhibition and most of the tasks are done or on schedule, the latest of which was getting artwork approved […]
Good weather – above par
Last week we were away. Mrs O had booked us into a holiday let in Southwold. In a sense, it was winding back three and a half years to September 2011 when we holidayed there but I was in Freshers week and only kipped there and had my tea most nights (I had to stay […]
On fossil beach
Of late, I have been examining and exploring the fossil beach at Easton Bavents. It is another form of Edgelands but totally outwith that series. As is so with much of my photography, I get drawn to something by colour, shape, texture or whatever and then all sorts of alchemy takes place with projects within […]
Photography and time
All photography is about time.Time that is captured in a fraction of a second and once the latent image is developed in chemistry or processed by an in-camera chip, it is a matter of history. Recently, I ventured along the cliffs at Easton Bavents at beach level. I was aware of sacrifical erosion along our […]
Private view – Bill Jackson FRPS
I jumped in the car to go and attend Bill’s PV at Halesworth today and nothing. The dashboard lit up like a flashing Christmas tree but the engine would not fire. Move on 45 minutes and the RAC had diagnosed a failed battery. A new one materialised out of his van, my plastic was handed […]
Edgelands – Bury St Edmunds
From Canterbury to Bury St Edmunds in a week. Two hugely important locations in their day. A week ago today I studied the weather charts and decided that office work could go and wait. I needed to get out and make more work for the series ‘Edgelands’. Storm force winds and rain do not not […]