All the work is now ready and crated up for transfer to The Museum of East Anglian Life. Now that the artwork is done it is final editing of museum catalogues, labels etc. If anyone ever thought that we artists just make pictures all day then let this dissuade you. The rather excellent ‘What do […]
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 […]
Scything
I am no Ross Poldark. Ask Mrs O. I have done a bit of scything in my time though and also a bit of sickling – infinitely more dangerous than wielding a scythe though. One of the things I learned about scything apart from being a back breaking chore was the selective cutting of vegetation. […]
Edgelands – the cull has started
I had to go into UCS today for a meeting so I took advantage of the vast and empty Fusion Lab to lay out 75 printed medium format images from the last edit of the series. This time last year Lux Locus were busy preparing to hang a pre-degree show exhibition in Ipswich Town Hall […]
The kindness of other artists
Yesterday was a typically grim Easter Saturday. The afternoon brightened up somewhat not least of which was down to another opening of a new monthly exhibition at The Freudian Sheep . I got to know one of the proprietors whilst at UCS. Mossy was a Fine Art student, I a photography student. Since he and […]
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 […]
More film back from the lab and new pieces from the UCS Fine Art Auction
I have been steadily working through my stock of Portra 160 and called into the Kodak Pro lab today to collect the latest batch. Every time I pick up my film it is like the very first time I saw a print emerge in a tray as a child. I have never lost, nor will […]
Today I went back to where it all started
The forecast was good for this morning so I was up and out a few minutes before sunrise. I used to hate the clocks going forward when I was on a regular commute as slipping back into darkness was always a let down. Now though, I relish the extra shooting time for my early morning […]
Edgelands – The Exhibition
Many of my regular readers will have followed my feverish production of new images for my series ‘Edgelands’. I began this series in late September 2013 as my degree project and have extended it beyond my initial capture area to include other interfaces between urban and rural landscapes in the county of Suffolk. For some […]
A very busy week making new Edgelands images
It has been frenetic this week. After the lows of last week, sitting indoors with a woolly hat on with the heating on – never a good look says Mrs O, I have had to catch up on slipped deliverables for the extended shoot of Edgelands. One morning spent frozen to the bone and then […]