I happened upon this scene whilst on my way to QA the catalogue for the forthcoming Trafalgar Art show. I had forgotten the allotment gardens existed just this side of the railway viaduct but they looked beautiful in the drizzly damp Ipswich I was walking through. This old lady seemed to sum up everything I […]
Wrong side of the track
I am working on my degree project. My aim is to subvert the common notion of what is beautiful in the landscape. For the most part many of us see municipal planting schemes and the relative mundane and anodyne planting schemes proffered by architects, highways engineers and town and country planners. Often, just a stones […]
Poor project management
The amount of time that is wasted through poor project management is something that irritates me given my background. The level of internecine conflict that can be caused by the lack of a clear programme leader and clear visibility of outline costs, other team deliverables and timescales is beyond belief. Add to this the inappropriate […]
Degree project stalled by Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
At the beginning of July I visited the St Clements site in Ipswich with a view to seeing it as a potential source of photographic study for my final degree project. Having got no answer from the estates management office the route to which forced me to drive around the whole site to travel the […]
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 […]
It was 40 years ago today…..
Scary moment this morning. My mind wandered back to this day 40 years ago when I set off to full time employment as a very junior Civil Servant ostensibly to while away a year being paid whilst I re-sat my failed A-levels. The world was such a different place in those days. Liverpool was still […]
Lights go out
This has been a roller coaster of of a journey these last 4 months and indeed these last 13 years. Four months of equals exhibiting work in three locations came to an end on Saturday after a hectic last day of our ‘ephemera’ event in Ipswich Town Hall as part of the inaugural Recreate Ipswich […]
Busy ephemera Saturday
Saturday, as expected, was the busiest day of our first week in Gallery 3 at Ipswich Town Hall. We started off with a continuation of large format photographic techniques and created a new Rembrandt lighting arrangement in the low key studio using barn doors and snoots with honeycomb grids to control the lighting. The lighting […]
Busy start to June
The beginning of this month has been hectic to say the least. I shot the build of the UCS Arts & Humanities Degree show over three days from 30th May quickly followed by a DSDM members day in Kensington on 6th June followed even more quickly the same day by photographing the degree show in […]
equals = an exhibition of work by UCS 2nd Year BA(Hons)Photography students at Ipswich Art School
I have just spent a thoroughly exhilarating day hanging a show of work in Ipswich Art School with fellow students Emma Voller and Mel Belton. Today’s hang is the culmination of 5 months dialogue and effort but it is all worth it. Emma Roodhouse, curator, kindly let us have space alongside IDPS and the Museum’s […]