Phew! What a rollercoaster 10 days it has been. We had a spectacular response to our Auction at UCS and something like £2400 was raised to help fund the £7000 costs of going to Free Range. Very special thanks to all the donors of great work. especially to Sam Mellish and David Watson as Sam […]
Lux Locus Auction
Lux Locus are having a photographic artefacts auction at UCS Waterfront building on Thursday 3rd April in Lecture Theatre 2 from 1830hrs. We have some great donations from well known internation, national and local artists. Take a look at our auction site to preview the lots http://luxlocus.wix.com/luxlocus I have been busy behind the scenes working […]
Lux Locus
This is the moniker for our BA(Hons) Photography degree shows this coming June. I helped come up with the name by running a creative thinking session with some of my fellow students following the ‘equals = ephemera’ artist-in-residence event that we had in Ipswich Town Hall last September. This was put to a vote along […]
Unlocked
December 2013 has been a strange month for me with three exhibition hangs to curate, a dissertation draft to submit and degree project images to make. All this without the added drama of other incidents. Good to see Alex getting better though. I cannot begin to understand how he feels but given the stuffing it […]
Trafalgar – Art at Prettys
This week has been hectic. We opened Trafalgar – the fifth Art at Prettys collaboration on Monday night. As curator, I found myself very busy showing around the Mayor and Mayoress plus the Provost of UCS. The evening was a blur and I ended up having to make a poor impromptu speech that I nearly […]
Stroke – reaction time
Today has been a sobering one. I was busy on the hang of a new show when one of the team, a 24 year old student exclaimed that he could not feel his left hand. It took all of 5 seconds to work out what was going on. A 999 call and a high speed […]
A Millstone around the dock
I have never been a fan of ‘The Mill’ on Ipswich Waterfront. It has proved to be useful as a photographic subject but the building sits uneasily in its surroundings and add to that the fact that it is unoccupied it is hardly a real asset for Ipswich. I was surprised to see on-line footage […]
Latest Large format landscape & portraits out of the can
The technician at UCS had a busy Wednesday last week whilst I was attending the Agile Business Conference in London. I had queued up 22 5×4 negatives plus countless rolls of 220, 120 and 35mm films over the last month and it has taken a weekend interspersed with research work to process them. Some of […]
Agile Business Conference 2013 – Kingston University
Later than promised but I have had to catch up on research papers this weekend plus throw in a bit of diverticulitis and blogging comes off second best. The ABC was astoundingly good this year with what seemed to be different clientele compared to previous years. The organisation by DSDM was spot on but it […]
Agile Business Conference Day 1 2013
Stephen Carver opened the conference with an entertaining introductory session that really told that agile ways of working and more importantly behaving, have been with us for many years.