Whether crafting  photographic prints or mixed media collages, I use a selection  of old cameras, historic processes and digital technology to create images that appear to have been pulled from the no-mans land that exists between imagination and reality.  These images, often described as “filmic” and “haunting”,  leave us wondering which world they inhabit. Are they created in our contemporary world or are these vintage-looking images visual echoes plucked from another era? 

 

I have a cupboard full of old film cameras; a Brownie Autograph from the early 1900’s, a 1940’s Speed Graphic, old polaroids, plastic Holgas, and 35mm Nikons from the 1970’s. I’ve particularly loved working with a process called wet plate or collodion photography, which is a photographic process that was used before film existed. But whatever the process or the equipment used, I want an image to be a transformation of experience. I interpret and transform the subject  to produce a picture that is  different from the scene I observe with the naked eye. I have no interest in simply recording what is in front of me.

 

When I shoot, I regularly find myself capturing somewhat random images that inspire me at the time, but have no real sense of context. That comes later when I layer together the different elements of a piece to create a narrative. In the moments that I capture the images it’s more like being a collector than a photographer. It’s in the post-photographic process that the story is told.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

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2022

Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Turner Art Perspectives

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2021

Lingwood Samuel Gallery, October

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2020

"There Was & There Was Not" Solo show, Ropewalk Gallery (postponed due to Coronavirus)

Artemizia Gallery, Arizona (postponed due to Coronavirus)

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2019

Tincleton Gallery, Dorset, September

"Repurposed", New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, June

Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with Turner Barnes Gallery  May 

London Art Fair with Turner Barnes Gallery, January

 

2018

Context Art Miami with Turner Barnes Gallery, December

Buckenham Gallery, Southwold

Bils and Rye Gallery, Kirkbymoorside

"Out of the Shadow", Lingwood Samuel Gallery, February

 

2017

"The Curious World", Lingwood Samuel Gallery, November

The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, April

 

2016

Turner Barnes Gallery, Brentwood, December

The Other Art Fair, Old Truman Brewery, London, October

The Other Art Fair, Bristol, July

"Fragments", The Last Supper Gallery, London April-May

The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, April

 

2015

Lingwood Samuel Art, Godalming, November

The Other Art Fair, Shoreditch, London, October

The Other Art Fair, Bristol, June

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