Often, in the past whilst attending gig there has always been an emerging band or solo artist supporting the main act. Yesterday I attended the AGM of the Contemporary Group of the RPS. It was held at the Art Workers Guild and I was billed to appear along with Fergus Heron to talk about […]
Wheel of Fortune
The weather this morning was ideal for large format work but other issues prevented me from taking advantage of the light almost non-existent wind. I tried just before sunset but one of the new locations was due East of the setting sun so not really an option. At a loss as to what to do […]
Monument?
Over the long weekend in Harrogate, I took off to explore the Valley Gardens and the thick woodland towards the upper reaches of this jewel of a green lung right in the middle of the town. Mrs O was not at her best and had decided to stay indoors knitting. She does not like scary […]
Taylor Wessing, Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery, alumni – a grand day out
Yesterday morning I stood shivering in a Northerly breeze at Ipswich Station. I was travelling up to LCC to drop off my TW2014 entries with Keith Locke, a fellow alumni. We have done this for the last three years and make a day out of it taking in galleries, making pictures and putting the world […]
Andreas Schmidt inspires UCS Students
Today has been a good day. My fellow ‘equals’ founder member Mel Belton had written to Andreas Schmidt asking for support for our forthcoming degree show. Not only did he gift us two books to auction he visited UCS to talk to us, donating his fee to our degree show fund. He was thoroughly entertaining […]
Inspiration kicks in – Genesis Suffolk Style
So far this term, all 3 weeks of it, I have been struggling to juggle my balls and spin my plates. I always knew that this year would be the hardest academically speaking but somehow the sheer scale and also the dependency on other people to deliver products on time and to budget in an […]
July 15th – strange day
Yesterday I travelled up to London to deliver my Taylor Wessing 2013 National Portrait Prize entries alongside Keith Locke (http://www.keithlocke.co.uk) , a consummate professional when it comes to photography. We had eagerly awaited the delivery of our entries for weeks now. However, the day dawned with the release of results from the university and all was […]
Genesis – Sebastiao Salgado – Natural History Museum
I took a turn around Salgado’s exhibition yesterday. It all and more than I expected. The quality of the hang and printing astounded me and the beauty of seeing grain was staggering in these large black and white prints. I overheard a young person (that is someone not my age by years) asking a compatriot […]
McCullin
I just got back from a screening of McCullin. I had an overwhelming feeling of being on the verge of weeping at many points in this film. In a word it is harrowing and ought to be compulsory viewing for all photography students.
Pictures at an exhibition
The latest assignment called for by UCS was to produce a narrative based on a received email. I had received a thank you email from the renowned graphic artist Brian Grimwood for images I made of his private viewing opening night at the Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich. My mind went into overdrive and I got to […]