Photo-ID: Photographers and Scientists explore Identity

The complexity surrounding the construction of personal and social identity will be explored in Photo-ID, a major exhibition in Norwich City Centre, throughout August 2009. It will present the work of nine specially commissioned photographers, who will each visually explore issues around identity. Their work will be shown within a context that explores how recent information about the human genome and its variations affects how we think about identity, now and in the future. Photo-ID will be freely open to the general public, and will be accompanied by a full programme of ancillary educational activities, a book and this website.

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The ten artists below have now been appointed, and details of them and their work are provided below in alphabetical order:


KIM CUNNINGHAM  (kim.cunningham@mac.com) (www.kimcunningham.co.uk)


Kim Cunningham is a London based freelance photographer, and recently graduated with an MA in documentary photography from the University of Wales, Newport. She initially studied photography in Dublin and soon after embarked on a personal project to photograph the village she grew up in, to capture life, as she knows it. Kim has continued to photograph this village ever since and this project has inspired her to document other aspects of our society and culture with particular reference to our sense of identity and community.

"My intention is to capture every day moments in people’s lives – moments that I can identify with - as well as conveying the emotions and atmosphere associated with living in a particular community. This is something that is echoed in all my projects so far, and I feel cultural representations are inherent in our identity but it is also important to capture those quieter, familiar moments that are more lasting which transpire in many cultures.

There is a certain charm and fondness that is present in small, local communities and the closeness between people, which is inherent in every day life, allows culture to develop. The unique character of individuals and the familiarity of local faces gives us a sense identity and belonging."

Recent Exhibitions/Awards:

2008 - 2009:    Ireland (an insider’s view ), Arles, Berlin, Paris, Dublin  
Group, touring exhibition featuring the latest photographic talent, presented by the Gallery of Photography, Dublin

2008:    The De Veres Award,  Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Award for first time exhibitor at the 178th RHA annual exhibition

2008:    178th RHA Annual Exhibition , Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Annual exhibition of selected artist’s work in this artist based, artist oriented institution

2008:    Trick or Treat, Wilkin’s Street, Waterford
Group exhibition of contemporary art in a domestic space, as part of the Imagine Arts festival 2008

2008:    Hasselblad Masters Annual Award
Semi – Finalist of this prestigious annual award
     
2007:     Space Between Exhibition,  Turner House, Penarth, Wales
Group MA exhibition featuring the work of graduates of the University of Wales, Newport


MARK EDWARDS  (mark@markedwards.eu.com)(www.markjedwards.com)


My work primarily depicts spaces that exhibit a sense of both longing and indifference. In places where I repeatedly walk alone time and again I find points of affirmation in quiet and prosaic landscapes. These are not landscapes of the sublime but of the overlooked and the everyday. Often returning to the motifs of my childhood I endeavour to make work which reflects my sense of wonder when taking the photograph. The slow process of their making, through the use of an 8 x 10 inch view camera, allows both myself and the viewer a considered encounter. These quiet spaces and pictures reflect my own sensibility to the places where we have settled and our engagement with them.

Education
1998 M.A. Photography, De Montfort University
1997 P.G. Dip. Photography, De Montfort University

Website
www.markjedwards.com

Public Collections
The V & A Museum, London
Government Art Collection

Solo Exhibitions
2005 Disturbances, BCA Gallery, Bedford
2004 Disturbances, Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
1996 Traces and Elements, The Bend in the River Gallery, Gainsborough
1995 Light Rhythms, The Ferry Centre, Oxford

Two Man Exhibition
2008 Mark Edwards & Nadav Kander: Landscapes, Fourth Lianzhou International Photo Festival, Lianzhou, China

Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 These Valued Landscapes (with Emily Cole, Fraser Harrison, James Ireland, Idris Khan, Paul Scott, Katy Woods), Oriel Davies Gallery, Powys
These Valued Landscapes, Bury St. Edmunds Gallery, Bury St. Edmunds
Voewood Projects, Voewood House, Holt
2007 150th Anniversary, The V & A Museum, London
Forest Dreaming , Centre For Contemporary Art and The Natural World, Exeter
2006-7 Photographs from the Collection, The V & A Museum, London
2005 The World, Abridged, (with Oliver Bancroft, Ryan Gander, Sally Osborn, Lucy Skaer), Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
2004 Commonground, Artsway, Sway
Sanctuary, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art, Kettering
Tempered Ground, (in association with Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art), Museum of Garden History, London
Crossing The Line, Salthouse Gallery, Salthouse
2003 The Simple Truth, The Norwich Gallery, Norwich
2002 Kettle’s Yard Open, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
2001 The Sleep of Reason, (with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Richard Billingham, Thomas Struth, Petra Wunderlich) Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
2000 The Sleep of Reason, The Royal Pump Rooms, Leamington Spa and The Norwich Gallery, Norwich
1998 12, The Riverside Studios, London


MARLENE HARING  (www.marleneharing.com)  

The citation for the 2005 Birgit Jürgenssen Prize states: 'The deciding factor [in awarding the prize to Marlene Haring was that the young artist does not rely on any formalist approaches in her work or limit herself to one medium, but rather employs performance, happening, photography, video, etc., reflecting trends, contents and strategies of today’s art world and in translating these into her own works after endowing them with a new and subversive dimension. [...She] has developed an independent position evincing a great degree of attention for the rules of art and the everyday world and an aesthetic competence focusing on the crucial questions concerning the criteria for social closeness and distance, body and mind, sex and gender.'

1978 born in Vienna

1997-1998 Foundation Diploma, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

1998-2005 Fine Arts/Media (Peter Kogler) Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna

1999-2003 working in collaboration with Catrin Bolt as Halt+Boring


exhibitions

2009 EASTinternational, Norwich, UK

2008 Delusionarium 4, curated by Jesse Benson, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles

        Young Artists‘ Biennal, 2nd Edition, Bucharest, curated by Ami Barak

        Marlene Haring + Nazim Ünal Yilmaz, curated by Eva Martischnig, Graz Austria

        Tomas Vanek + Marlene Haring, Czech Center, Vienna

        SHOW ME YOURS, I‘LL SHOW YOU MINE, with Anna Artaker + GirlsOnHorses, curated by exgirls, Krakow, Poland

        Cheek up! public poster action, invited by exgirls (Magdalena Ujma and Joanna Zielinska), Krakow Poland

2007 Ich bin keine Küche (I am not a kitchen), Heiligenkreuzerhof, Vienna

        Miroir mon beau miroir, curated by Caroline Messensee, Maison Guerlain, Paris

        Fresh Trips, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria

        Schaurausch, curated by Paolo Bianchi and Martin Sturm, O.K Centrum for Contemporary Art, Linz

        Unterspiel, curated by Seamus Kealy, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto

        LIVE at Supreme Trading, New York

2006 Gallery Jocelyn Wolff, Paris – Concentrated Strategies

        Marc de Puechredon, Basel – Vanitas

        Osterreichisches Kulturforum, Prague

2005 Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna - ???

        Stadtgalerie, Wels, Austria - Computerprints of Wales

        Kunstpavillion Innsbruck, Austria - Groupshowboard

        Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada - Unterspiel

        Betonsalon, MQ, Vienna - Mein Bier. Dein Bier. (My beer.Your beer) Installation


awards

2008 Production grant for Show me yours, I‘ll show you mine by Austrian MInister for Education, Art and Culture

2006 International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), NY, USA

2005 Birgit Jurgenssen Prize

2004 State scholarship for Photography (together with Catrin Bolt)

2003 MAK- Schindler Scholarship, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (together with Catrin Bolt)


CARL JAYCOCK  (creativecarl@btinternet.com)(www.carljaycock.co.uk)

            
"My artworks are primarily concerned with exploring ideas about identity and presenting the ideas in a physical form that explores the use of everyday images and materials to raise questions on the complexity of identity. I am interested in the connections between the local and global culture. I have lived or travelled in various parts of Europe and South East Asia and this has informed much of my practice.

The use of facial imagery and its various cultural uses has been explored in many past artworks taking my artworks from a ‘nature’ exploration of facial imagery through to now where my artworks explore the cultural references that express our identity.

The range of materials I use is wide ranging but selected for the additional content they bring to the artwork. Materials such as using old books or new images collected from television or old record players tapes and album covers have been explored and experimented with to tap into the emotive cultural references and meanings it triggers in the viewers of the artwork.

My photographic and digital printing practice makes use of micro and macro imagery combinations in the artwork to entice the viewers of the artwork to look closely and from a distance which enables a strong level of participation and critiquing of what is presented and raises ideas on several levels.

The computer has been an important tool for my practice in the collecting and the exploration of everyday images and re-contextualising of archived material. The outcome is artworks that utilise new media photographic processes to create strong visual work, which aims to connect to people through referencing both art and photographic traditions."

Education & Qualification
1998 - June 1999        Multi Media projects using Director, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver, Adobe
Sussex University with Lighthouse        After Effects, HTML etc short films and sound to create interactive multi-media   
Digital Certificate Training Award         projects for CD-ROM, Web sites and Installations in Multi-Media with academic theory
1989 –1990 Birmingham University     M.A Fine Art.   
1979/1983 Berkshire College of A&D.    Southern Regional Diploma in 3D Design                

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006    ‘THE OBSESSIVE GARDEN’ The Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin   
2006    ‘TRANSFORM’ Format Photography  Festival, Q Arts, Derby.
2006    ‘MAKING WORDS’ Touring Exhibition Bilston, Leamington Spa.
2005    ‘DIFFERENT ALPHABETS’ Bury Art Gallery, Text Festival artists inc: Jasper Johns, John Cage
    Lawrence Weiner & Maurizio Nannucci, Rashid Areen, Simon Patterson, Ian Hamilton Finlay.
2004    ’IDENTITY’ The Park, Powis, Wales, UK.
2002    INTERNATIONAL OPEN IMAGE. Deluxe Gallery, Hoxton Square , London.
2002    ‘OCTOBER  REPORT’ Sotheby’s Artlink Finalist 1998-2002. Genia Schrieber Gallery,Tel Aviv.
2002    SOTHEBY/ Shrewsbury Open. UK.
2001    CRAFTS COUNCIL.LONDON. 'On Paper’ exhibition" July 2001
2001    SOTHEBYS. 'ARTLINK' New York and Tel Aviv Auction of selected contemporary artists.
2000    EAST Open International. Norwich. Selectors Sebastien Lopez and Keith Piper.
1999-2001    CITY Gallery, Leicester. 'Perfect World' Touring exhibition. 12 venues.
1999-2000    IKON Gallery, Birmingham, Touring Exhibition.’ Out of Place"
1999    MOSTYN Open 98-99   
1998    SKOOB BOOKS Gallery. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
1997    '1st ELECTRONIC ART SHOW’ National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.           
1996    I.C.A. Institute of Contemporary Art. London. 'HAYVEND'
1995    Royal College of Art 'ABSOLUT SECRET 'with  Blake, Colvin, Mach

Selected Solo Exhibitions.
2008    The Bracknell Gallery , South Hill Park , Ringmead, Bracknell, Berkshire.UK.
2004    UH Gallery’s, Hertfordshire and MAC Gallery Birmingham UK touring, catalogue ISBN 898543836
2002    Atrium Gallery. Pricewaterhouse Coopers London. Curated by Dickson Russell Art.
1999    Marc Van Meensel Gallery. Belgium.
1998    Maybank Gallery K.L. Malaysia.
1998    Brighton Museum & Library.   
1995    Artforum, London.
1995    Hove Museum and Art Gallery. Catalogue intro by Professor Norbert Lynton.

Selected Public Collections.
2003    Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery, Shropshire.UK.
2001    The State Museum Majdanek, Poland.
1998    Maybank Art Collection, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia.
1994    Projekt Theatre, Dresden, Germany.
1994    Deutsche Bucherei, Leipzig und Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1994    Deutsches Literatur archiv, Marbach am Velkar, Germany. Sachsische Landes Bibliothek, Dresden. Germany.
1994    Gutenberg Museum Mainz. Klingspor Museum Offenbach Germany.
1990    Mukhinas Academy-St Petersburg. Russia
1989    Fife  Regional Council Head  Office. Scotland, GB
   
Selected PUBLICATIONS.
2008    ‘Excavating England’ March Art Review
2006    Irish Times by Aiden Dunne. ‘The Obsessive Garden’
2005    Craft magazine April 2006 ‘Making Words Exhibition. Wolverhampton.
2004    UH Gallery organized UK touring exhibition with catalogue ISBN 898543836
2001    On Paper’ New Paper Art. by Jane Thomas and Paul  Jackson, Crafts Council London. ISBN 1-85894-145-8
2000    Art monthly, no 239.UK. and Artforum Oct 2000.
1998    Tatler, Malaysia, July 98.                   
1992-98    Spinne Art Books, Dresden ,Germany

Selected Awards & Residencies & Projects
2008-9    The Elisabeth Garrett Anderson Memorial Commission. London.
2004       BBC artists in residence at the Mailbox & Pebble Mill.
2003       Deluxe Gallery Hoxton Square, London. ‘International Open Image’ 2nd Prize winner
2002       The ‘Sotheby Shrewsbury Open’. 1st prize winner. Judges Marjorie Althorpe-Guyton / Arts Council,
              Richard Dorment / Daily Telegraph and Lord Gowrie. Award presented by Martin Linton MP.
2001       Arts Council England 'Creative Ambitions Award’.
2001       Y.O.T.A. Birmingham City Council. Artist in Residence with Seeing the Light.
2000       Sotheby’s 'Artlink' promoting contemporary artists. New York and Tel Aviv via.


ASA JOHANNESSON  (asa@asajohannesson.com) (www.asajohannesson.com)

I use photography to focus on ideas surrounding the notions of ‘self’ and ‘other’. I see my projects as an ongoing self-portrait: The people I photograph are never professional models but people I meet on the streets of London, through friends, or people who respond to my adverts on the internet. They are people who I could see myself in or who see themselves in me; we share our identities in various ways but never completely. My portraits focus on identity, particularly on gender. I try to question prejudices and stereotypes within masculinity and femininity. I’m interested in the actual act of reading a photograph, how perception forms the story of the photograph and becomes a sphere where identity is dismantled, but also a space where it is created. Despite being visually diverse my work is informed by the same questions and fears, surrounding the notions of who we are, mentally and physically, and who we feel we are in the eyes of others.

Date of Birth: 26.01.1979      Nationality: Swedish

Education

Royal College of Art: MA Photography, London, Oct 07- Jul 09

University of Westminster: BA (Hons) Photographic Arts, London, Oct 03-Jun 06

Exhibitions

Nov 2008            The Terry O'neill award 2009, Fulham Palace, London, UK.

Oct 2008             Portraits of Her, Riga Art Space, Riga, Latvia.

Sep-Nov 2008     Five Nordic Women, NICE08, Novas CUC, Liverpool, UK.

Jul 2008              The Other, Its#Seven, International Talent Support, Trieste, Italy.

May 2008           The Other I, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK.

March 2007        Fellow Travellers, Salford Museum & Art Gallery, Manchester, UK.

Awards

Westphoto Graphich Antiga Photography Prize 2008: 2nd prize with Portraits of Him #4

Terry O’Neill Award 2008: Shortlisted with Portraits of Him.

Women Photography International 2006: Winner of Honour with Portraits of Her# 6.

Publications

2008 Hot Shoe, Issue 157, UK.

2008 Chroma Literary Journal, Issue 7, UK.

2007 Magenta Flash Forward 2007, Canada.


JOANNA KANE  (joanna@joannakane.co.uk)(www.joannakane.co.uk)

Since graduating with a Photography degree in '97, I have worked on commissions in photography, video and digital media, including a number of projects and collaborations with theatre and performance companies, while developing independently motivated work in still and moving lens based image.  My core area of practice is photographic still image, using medium and large format cameras and traditional films and papers, as well as digital processes. I also combine this with other traditional practices and media, for instance, I've recently worked with life casting in plaster, which I have approached very much as a photographic process in capturing an intimate trace of subject or object. My work often draws on visually based historical research together with related investigations in new media. I’m particularly interested in exploring the complex of imaging technologies arising before and after the emergence of photography in the early nineteenth century, as one means of understanding implications/potentials of current digital imaging technologies. My own work typically involves combining these traditional or historically inspired photographic approaches with digital techniques.

Photography Degree

• 1993 - 1997 Napier University, Edinburgh BA Hons Photography Ist Class Honours


Exhibitions and Commissions

• 2008 ‘The Somnambulists’, Solo Exhibition, Scottish National Portrait Gallery Jan - April 2008, (Jan - April 2008)

• 2008 Photography Book, ‘The Somnambulists’, Dewi Lewis Publishing, Feb 2008, Hardback, 112 pages,

           ISBN 978-1904587569, main author. Essay by curator Duncan Forbes and writer Roberta McGrath.

• 2007 ‘The Somnambulists’. Solo Exhibition, Month of Photography, Bratislava, part of European Month of

          Photography (November 2007)

• 2007 ‘Digital Romantics’, Photography and 3D digital imaging work from Hospitalfi eld House Residency,

          Hannah McClure Centre, Dundee

• 2007 “Looking for Anne”, Video Installation, a development of “The Glass Essay” commission, shown in

          performance at the English Theatre, Berlin, June 2007

• 2006 Commission for Video Photography and Installation for performance piece “The Glass Essay”, based

           on the poem by Anne Carson. Emerging Properties, Berlin

• 2005 ‘In/Flux’, interactive digital video installation, Threshold New Media Space, Perth Concert Hall, Perth,

           catalogue “The Threshold Project”

• 2004 ’13 Ways of Looking’, Video Installation, GdK Gallery, Galerie der Künste, Berlin, Germany.

          Collaboration with Emerging Properties and the Net Museum for Language.

• 2004 ‘Castings’, Hospitalfi eld House, Arbroath, Photography and 2 site specifi c video installations using

           life casts developed by the artists and shown as part of a residency

• 2003 - 6 Commission for Video Projection installation for Emerging Properties Performance company, Berlin.

Project shown;

2006 Kunstraum Sylt quelle, Sylt, Germany (July ‘06)

2005 Rencontres Video Toulouse, France

2004 National Review of Live Art, Glasgow (invited artists)

2004 GdK Gallery Berlin

2003 Instants Video Manosque

Awards

• 2007 Juliet Gomperts Project Funding Award

• 2005 Hope Scott Trust Award

• 2004 Carnegie Trust Award

Lecturing and Teaching

• 1997 - present Edinburgh College of Art Lecturer Photography and Digital Imaging (part-time)

• 1997 - 99 Napier University, Photography Dept. Tutor Photography and Digital Imaging (part-time)


EVI LEMBERGER  (www.evilemberger.co.uk)(uvede@yahoo.de)


Evi Lemberger, born in Lam (1983), lived in Bristol and Munich, before starting to study in London BA (Hons) Photography, short break at the HGB in Leipzig under Professor Helfried Strauss. Participated with recent Between then and now in festivals Lumix, Hannover, Wooloo, Berlin, took part at Group exhibitions Lets face it, LCC LCF, Foto8 Summershow, Photomonth- Dry Walk Gallery, London, Through the lens Bristol, Arte Lagune, Venice, Gratizifikation, Regensburg, nominated for British Journal for Photographer’s Assistance Award and winner of the Bavarian Press Prize for the Best Series 2008.
At the moment, he is for a while in Moscow getting a taste of photojournalism and the Moscow world.

Group exhibition
12/2008    Grazifikation 7    Regensburg, Germany
11/2008    Photomonth, Dray Walk Gallery  London, UK
11/2008    Arte Laguna  Venice, Italy   
06/2008    Photo8's Summershow, Photo8 London, UK
06/2008    LCC- LCF, The Print Space  London, UK
06/2008    Through the lens- RWA  Bristol, UK
03– 04/ 2008   Lets Face it, London Photographic Association London, UK
10 – 11/2007   Woman in Europe, Oermezei Koezoessegi Haz Budapest, Hungary
07/2007     O. T.  Kötzting, Germany
04/2007     Das Kind in der Kuenstlerin  Leipzig, Germany
03/2007     Amnesty International  London, UK Competition winner
03- 04/2007   Xhibit, University of Arts  London, UK

Soloexhibition   
06- 08/2008     Between then and now,  Prince Boneparte, London, UK
01- 04/2008     Fundstuecke Steinheil, Munich, Germany
07/2007          Gruppenbild mit Dame  Kulturbundhaus, Leipzig

Competitions
12/ 2008    Bayerischer Pressepreis Munich, Germany Winner of the category “Best Series” 
10/2008    Noise festival  Manchester, UK  curators top 5    
09/2008    Terry O Neill Award  Battle East Sussex, UK   
07/2008    Still life, London Photographic Association London, UK
                Silveraward for still life extract from the series Between then and now
06/2008    Foto8 Summershow, Foto8  London, UK Shortlisted with image from Between then and now           
                Contemporary Art festival, Wooloo Berlin, Germany Festival contribution with Between then and now
07/ 2008    Lumix  Documentary photography festival Hannover, Germany Festival contribution with Between then and now
05/ 2008    New Contemporaries London, UK Shortlisted with Between then and now


DAVE LEWIS  (lewis.isa@gmail.com)(www.iniva.org)

I am a London based photographer who trained in film & photography at the Polytechnic of Central London (now University of Westminster). After college I worked as a photographic assistant before joining Blackfriars Photography Project then based in Bermondsey, S.E. London. I was one of the early members of D’Max, the black photographic collective of the 90’s Black Arts movement and I am currently a member of Autograph ABP (Assoc. of Black Photographers) and B.A.G. (Bermondsey Artist’s Group). I continue to work as a freelance photographer.

I attempt to use the image as a vehicle to communicate ideas around social, cultural and political issues questioning accepted beliefs and experimenting with various forms of photographic visual language. My projects are premised on research - applying my ‘findings’ to create new work with an obvious personal slant. Many of my images are ‘constructed’ in the sense that events are not necessarily ‘real’ but rather try to suggest to the viewer dialogues of thought between what is seen (on the walls) and what is received (in the viewers mind). I ask the viewer to suspend belief in order to consider some of the ideas put before them. I also ask the question, how far can we push theories and practice using photographic imagery?

I have a continued commitment to working at grass roots level in delivering workshops in museums, galleries and community groups as well as teaching in University photographic departments.  I am currently Visiting Research Fellow in the Goldsmiths Anthropology Dept, working with video and photography in visual anthropology.

Web site   http://www.zen88175.zen.co.uk/english_patient/

Exhibitions/Awards/Publications

2008    Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art Residency, ‘Hybridity’: photographs/sound/video installation (collaboration)
2008     Cafe Gallery ‘Anywhere but Here’, video, (group show)

2007     Hugh Breckman Theatre Prize ‘Conversations with my Daughter’ (Ist prize Award)
2007    Sainsbury Centre for Visual Art ‘AfterShock’, (group show)
2007    Wellcome Trust Award, black communities and mental health issues

2006    Border Crossings Chapter: Site of teaching anthropology, publication

2005     Bermondsey Artists Group ‘Connected’ (connections between       
    migrant families, history and race), Open exhibition

2001    The Photographer’s Gallery ‘Chapter Six – Racism’ and ‘Wall’, (solo show)
   
2000    Arts Council Collection – ‘Untitled’ at the Royal Anthropological Institute    

1998    LDDC Photo-Docklands ‘Lee Boo Rises to Test the Waters’, semi-fictional narrative based on diaries of eighteenth century ship captain, (group show and publication)

1997    Café Gallery ‘In the Palm of my Hand’, (solo show)
(investigation into negrobilia, collections of racially stereotyped black figurines)
1997    Museum Of Modern Art, Oxford ‘In Visible Light’, anthropology and photography, (group show)

1996    The Photographers’ Gallery ‘The Impossible Science of Being’, historical development of anthropology and photography, (group show)

1993    Recontres d’Arles Arles, France  (Autograph, Association.of Black Photographers)
             (group show)

1992    MOMA Oxford ‘The Critical Decade Show’, (group show)


PAUL SUCKSMITH  (www.paulsucksmith.com)  (paul@paulsucksmith.com)


I have an exhibiting history spanning over the past 24 years which began shortly after studying for a Higher National Diploma in Photography at Leeds Polytechnic.


I went on to study for a BA Honours in Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University and after taking a short course in web design in 1997 I set up an on-line art gallery which was described by the Arts Council of Great Britain as “A sharp, witty and precise site that will have you slacking on-line when you should be doing something far more useless instead.”


This ignited an interest in the exploration of digital media and I began creating digital art and films, working with sound artists on collaborative projects, the results of which where screened at ‘The Film Fix Club’, Custard Factory, Birmingham.


I explored these areas further when working as a lecturer where I devised and implemented a course introducing artists to the application of digital media and through a series of workshops with young adults which where featured on the arts and culture TV show ‘Rapture’.


After setting up and running a real life art gallery in the Calder Valley, UK for a number of years I recently decided to devote all of my time to my art practise.


Working in the medium of photography I close in on an apparently banal and everyday subject matter and with the fusion of documentary and surrealism I aim to reveal the fantastical elements hidden within the common place. I choose to work in a low-fi style with desaturated colours which contain a ghostly abstract quality that hints at the passing of time.


EXHIBITIONS:

2009 May- June Gracefields Art Centre, Dumfries

2008 November Ctrl.Alt.shift/Vice Magazine

2005 April Calder Gallery, Hebden Bridge

2004 August Upfront Gallery, Penrith

2004 March Rotherham Arts Centre

2004 Epona AD, Halifax

2003 November Lead Station, Manchester

2002 February Whalley Hall ,Stockport

2002 August Regent street Gallery Nottingham

2000 January ArtRight, London

1999 December 'Re-Production', Stroud House Gallery, Stroud

1999 July/Sept 'Personal Details'

Derby City Council House

1999 April/June Solo Show, Rotherham Arts Centre

1999 May/July Burton Art Gallery,Bideford,Devon

1998 Nov/Dec Annual Art Auction, Nottingham Castle Gallery

1997 Febuary 'Voices & Visions',Angle Gallery Birmingham

1998 Oct/Nov 'Klub', Bilston Gallery, Wolverhampton

1998 August 'Summer Madness', Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

1998 February New Heys School, Liverpool

1997 December Lyceum Theatre, Crewe

1997 October Astley Hall, Chorley

1997 August St James Library, Liverpool

1995 May 'Material Objects', Broad St Gallery Nottimgham

1993 August Spectator Annual Exhibition, Adams & co Edinburgh

1993 July Spectator Annual Exhibition Christie's, London

1991 Nov/Dec Barn's & Fitzgerald, Edinburgh

1991 October Broughton St Gallery, Edinburgh

1987 Oct/Dec Leeds Art Space

1987 Jan/Feb Leeds Art Space

1984 June Carnegie Arts Centre, Workington

1984 May Hexham Art Gallery

1984 April/May Carlisle Photography Society,

Carlisle City Art Gallery


SIMON TERRILL  (simonterrill@yahoo.com)(www.simonterrill.com)

EDUCATION
2008- 09 Graduate Affiliate, Slade School of Fine Art, University College London
2005    Master of Fine Art (Research), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne
1998    Bachelor of Fine Art (Sculpture), Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne

EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer, Art History and Theory Department, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2005- 2008
Lecturer, Centre for Ideas, Victorian College of the Arts, University of Melbourne, 2003 – 2008

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008    Closer, Sutton Gallery Project Space, Melbourne
           Crowd Theory-Port of Melbourne, Mission to Seafarers: Flying Angel Club, Melbourne
2007    Crowd Theory-Southbank, ANZ Pavilion, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne
2006    Crowd Theory, Casula Powerhouse, Sydney; Lismore City Hall, Lismore
2005    4Hz, Ocular Lab, Melbourne
           Orbit, West Space Gallery, Melbourne
           Crowd Theory, Gabriel Gallery, Footscray Arts Centre
2002    H>M>L, 45 Downstairs, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne
           7 Lonely Drivers, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2001    Four Photographs and A Sculpture, Linden Gallery, Melbourne
1999    Horizon Line of a Room, TCB inc. ART, Melbourne
1998    Bucket of Blood Hotel, Next Wave Festival, 238 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
           Machine Primate, Stop 22 Gallery, Melbourne

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008    FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery
           The Truth of the Matter, Monash Gallery of Art, curated by Terry Wu
2007    Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre, National Photography Prize, Albury Regional Gallery, finalist and keynote lecture
           Everyday I Make My Way, Sutton Gallery, curated by Jon Cattapan
           Perfect For Every Occasion: Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, curated by Zara Stanhope
2006    City Of Perth Photomedia Award, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (finalist)
           The William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize, Monash Gallery of Art (finalist)
           Crowd Theory, Alliance Française de Paris, France
2005    ANZ Visual Arts Fellowship Award, 380 Collins Street, Melbourne (finalist)
           Next Wave Festival 21st Birthday, alumni exhibition / website, Bus Gallery
2003    Living Rooms, Transfigure, Australian Centre for The Moving Image, Federation Square, Public Imaging Project
2002    Casual Menace, Deep Space: Sensation & Immersion, Australian Centre for The Moving Image, Federation Square, Public Imaging Project
           Casual Menace, Australian Centre for The Moving Image collection, Asia Pacific Triennial, Brisbane   
           Truckstop, Multimedia Art Asia Pacific, Beijing; Vidarte Mexico City

AWARDS
2008    Anne & Gordon Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship
2005    KPMG Tutorship Prize, Victorian College of the Arts
1997    National Gallery of Victoria Trustees Award

GRANTS
2006    City of Melbourne project funding
2002    Australia Council New Media Arts Fund Grant
2001    Besen Family Foundation Grant
1998    Australia Council New Media Arts Fund Grant
Besen Family Foundation Grant

COMMISSIONS
2006/07 KPMG Commission.
2003    Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Public Imaging Project Commission, Living Rooms
2002    Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Public Imaging Project Commission, Casual Menace

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Kirsten Rann, Muscular Memories: Simon Terrill by Kirsten Rann, Photofile, no 85, pp 50 - 55
Urszula Dawkins, Imagining the Ritualised Hour, RealTime issue #87 Oct-Nov 2008 pg. 49 and cover
Suzy Freeman-Greene, Looking at the Big Picture, The Age, 16th August 2008, pp 21-22
Jo Roberts, Crowd Mentality Precious Cargo in Theory, The Age, 27th July 2008, p 19
Derrick Gill, interview, 774, ABC radio Melbourne, July 2008
Penny Teale, FX in Contemporary Photography, McClelland Gallery exhibition catalogue, 2008
Daniel Palmer, Crowded Space, Inside: Australian Design Review, No 49,2007, pp 38-40
ABC TV Stateline, Melbourne's Crowd Theory Project, Broadcast 27th April 2007
Harbant Gill, Close to the Madding Crowd, Herald Sun, 20th June 2007, p 63
Jeff Makin, The Photo’s Synthesis, Herald Sun, 30th April 2007, p 89
Penny Web, Every Day I Make My Way, The Age, 8th April 2007
Robert Nelson, Something’s Rotten, The Age A2, 24th March 2007, pp 19-20
Zara Stanhope, ‘Coming back for more’, Perfect for Every Occasion, Photography Today, Heide Museum of Modern Art, 2007, pp 132-145
Chris Healy, Crowd - or Community?, Meanjin, vol. 65, no. 2, 2006, pp 167-172
Daniel Palmer, Crowd Theory, catalogue essay, 2006
Alex McDonald, Crowd Theory, State of the Arts, April/June 2006, p 40-41
Dr Kyla McFarlane, Landscape and the Renewal of Social Space, Photofile, no. 76, Summer 2006, pp 28-31
Andrea Bell, Orbit, UN.magazine, issue 4, 2005, p 55
Jaye Early, Existential Hitchhiking, Realtime, no. 49, June – July 2002, p 4
Keith Gallasch, Snuff Puppets Rule, Realtime, no. 50, August/September 2002, p 38
Andrew Mackenzie, Lost Highways on Flinders Lane, Broadsheet, vol. 31, no. 3, 2002, p 30
Vikki Riley, Some Place Like Sarajevo, Realtime no 26, Aug/Sep 1998, pp 7-8

COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Victoria
Samstag Museum of Art
Albury Regional Gallery
Monash Gallery of Art
Artbank Sydney
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
KPMG Melbourne
Macquarie Bank Sydney
City of Melbourne
Maribyrnong City Council
McClelland Gallery
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