I must be close to being the worst blogger in the world but I sometimes I just don’t get the time to keep this up to date. Since my last post I’ve been to India for a month on the British Council PMI(2) Award and I have also been looking to do more work on [...]
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New Work
Posted by averylongexposure on April 20, 2012
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National Open Art Exhibition 2011
Last night I attended the Artist’s Preview of this years National Open Art Exhibition at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, West Sussex. It is a really nice exhibition of some terrific work. The space at the Minerva Theatre is great and well worth a visit. I feel really privileged to have a piece of work hanging [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on December 10, 2011
http://averylongexposure.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/national-open-art-exhibition-2011/
The Castaways Project
The Castaways project has now become a blog http://thecastawaysproject.wordpress.com I will be gradually adding all of the images from 89 glass negatives from the 1920s made by a photographer from the Hay-on-Wye area on the Wales / England border.
Posted by averylongexposure on December 3, 2011
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‘Castaways’ Project
Using a blog as a record of my research is basically not working. I just cannot devote the time to it so I am resorting to a handwritten journal What i have been doing is working on a project around a batch of 89 old glass negatives that I acquired earlier this year. They are [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on November 24, 2011
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Work selected for the National Open Art Exhibition 2011
I am really pleased and excited that I can announce that once again this image has been selected, this time for the National Open Art Exhibition 2011. The selection process goes through two rounds of judging by an esteemed panel of judges including Gavin Turk (Chairman), Catherine Lampert, Lisa Wright and Francis Hodgson. The exhibition takes [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on November 11, 2011
http://averylongexposure.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/work-selected-for-the-national-art-open-2011/
Installation Pics at the London Group Open
The London Group Open Exhibition (Part 2) opened on the 1st November. The exhibition is showing work by members of the London Group alongside the successful Open submissions. The resulting show is a terrific eclectic mix of work and well worth a visit to the Cello Factory in Cornwall Road, Waterloo, London.
Posted by averylongexposure on November 5, 2011
http://averylongexposure.wordpress.com/2011/11/05/installation-pics-at-the-london-group-open/
Time, photography and Futurism
The Italian Futurists were obsessed with showing natural motion in photographs and were opposed to the frozen images depicting motion made by people such as Eadweard Muybridge. They wanted to show the energy of movement. Showing how much time and motion could be captured in a singular image was certainly a goal of the [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on October 16, 2011
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Initial Research for Experimental Practices
When we start to think about photography the 3 most important factors are LIGHT, TIME and a SUBSTRATE that will react to light and make an image. Experiments are how we came to photography. Artists had used the camera obscura to assist in making initial sketches accurately and realistic perspective. Science was used to fix [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on October 16, 2011
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Getting the introductions out of the way on the MFA
Back at university at getting back into the flow of things. Inductions and introductions to a place I am already familiar with. There are two units in the first semester and it will be good to get my teeth into these. Experimental Practices and Contextual Perspectives. The key element for both units will, of course, be [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on October 3, 2011
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London Group Open 2011
I was really excited today to get an email from the organisers of the London Group Open. An image from the ‘Unstill Life’ series has been selected for the exhibition at The Cello Factory, Waterloo, London, SE1. The exhibition is in 2 parts and I am exhibiting between 01 November – 10 November 2011. The [...]
Posted by averylongexposure on September 21, 2011
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