The Royal Photographic Society is delighted to announce a special one-off afternoon of artist talks on 20 October by exhibiting artist Takashi Arai, Ian Phillips McLaren, Spencer Rowell, and a gallery walkthrough with curator Zelda Cheatle HonFRPS and Dr Michael...
Giving the exhibition it’s full name Squaring the Circles of Confusion: Neo-Pictorialism in the 21st Century.The exhibition is curated by Zelda Cheatle, RPS Honorary Fellow, and features work from Takashi Arai, Susan Derges, David George, Joy Gregory, Tom Hunter, Ian Phillips McLaren, Céline Bodin, and Spencer Rowell. The exhibition will...
I’m really happy that my work has been chosen and is showing at the Venice Experimental Video And Performing Art Festival at the Palazzo Bembo – Venice, Italy | 23rd April 2022.The work on show is a video of my ‘Self-Portrait/ There’s someone In My Head…’...
This week I taught a Salt printing masterclass at The School of Art, Architecture & Design which forms part of London Metropolitan University.Salt Printing is a contact printing process, which means that the final print will be the same size as your negative.It was great to see the students immersed and having a great time making their own...
This week I taught a masterclass on cyanotype printing at The School of Art, Architecture & Design which forms part of London Metropolitan University.Cyanotype is the most popular of the alternative processes, possibly because it is seen to be easy and cheap – in the past it was mainly associated with amateur photography.In the...
I’ve been working on a couple of different projects recently, including this one. I’m looking at the Romans and the Greek (Hellenistic) influences on portraiture. The Romans were big on hybrid forms of portraiture rooted in Hellenistic art, this period was really significant in the development of portraiture and portrait art. Picasso and...
On June 17th I did a practicle workshop exploring themes pertinent to artist Matthew Darbyshireʼs practice and inspired by his new public artwork Hercules Meets Galatea. With museums and collections closed for many months and artists having limited opportunities to show and share artworks, this workshop was designed to consider alternative...
I’ve been working on my ‘Self-i’ project for the last few of months. last September I embarked on an MA Fine art degree `( I know – oldest student in town ) to try to push my art and to give me the next two years of just experimenting with my ideas. If I’m being honest, I would have hated the self-i images only a year ago as they didn’t fit in with my...