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Study Visit – Brighton Biennial
I attended an OCA Study Visit to the Brighton Biennial Festival recently. Other priorities meant that I could only attend for one day, but it was a full and excellent day. It is difficult with events...
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PhotoMonth Open – private view
PhotoMonth Open, East London International Photography Festival — my work under scrutiny Last night was the opening of the PhotoMonth Open. I spent a couple of hours their, looking at the work and...
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Elina Brotherus
On the 12th of November I attended a Study Group meeting in London to listen to an artist’s talk by Elina Brotherus. The talk was held at a gallery in Mayfair – quite a prestigious location! The group...
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OCA Thames Valley Meeting 22nd November
Yesterday I attended an OCA Thames Valley meeting. It was a very worthwhile event. Sharon Boothroyd, my tutor, was there providing help and advice. The meeting largely concentrated on reviewing work by...
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Back from my travels
I am now back in the UK after my trip to Australia and Hong Kong. The Australia piece was very much about racing triathlons with not so much time for photography. In Hong Kong however I managed to put...
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Quo Vadis — germ of an idea for life after YOP
I am getting close to the end of my degree course at the Open College of the Arts. One more assignment to submit and preparation for assessment and it is all over. It has been a hugely enjoyable and...
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Photo Competition: Visual artist Lucia Pizzani and filmmaker David Jackson...
Keith Greenough:Made it onto a long shortlist of 20 (out of 100) for Hotshoe PhotoFusion Salon Award…. Didn’t make it to the top though. Congrats to the winners. Originally posted on : Now in its fifth...
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Hiroshi Sugimoto – Still Life @ Pace Gallery, London
I had a chance to make a brief visit to the Sugimoto ‘Still Life’ exhibition at the Pace Gallery in London today. It was most impressive. I have seen three Sugimoto exhibitions now—his...
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Tate Modern – Conflict-Time-Photography
I have been looking forward to this exhibition for some time. The concept of the exhibition has quite an overlap with my own work in East London. My own work does not deal with conflict, but does pose...
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Document, Publicity, Commentary, Art
This post presents my thoughts on the recent CONSTRUCTING WORLDS Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age Exhibition at the Barbican London. This exhibition closed in early January 2015. I...
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Oxford OCA Student Exhibition
I heard from John Umney and Penny Watson that they have decided to include some work from Lifting the Curtain in their forthcoming exhibition to take place in Oxford in May/June of this year. This is...
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Northumberland
I have just returned from a few days photographing the landscape of Northumberland. The focus was on its coast line. I must say I enjoyed the place a great deal. Northumberland’s coast line is steeped...
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What next…
The dust has settled and the assessment submission is now in Barnsley. I have plenty to do over the next few months in preparing for my exhibition. It promises to keep me busy! But I have been turning...
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New Work – Out of the Shadows
I have been developing an idea for new work which follows on from ‘Lifting the Curtain’. The project is code-named ‘Out of the Shadows’. The idea is to continue to explore how East London is changing...
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