I am currently work on the early stages of two projects, the first is about my home town, a topographical observation of when I live and secondly a PhD Application that looks to investigate positive mental health within community car restoration.
Family Album is an exploration into the connection between the family photograph, (the event) and memory recollection, was a submission for the award of MA by Research (MRes) at Leeds Metropolitan University (2012) as it was, now Leeds Beckett University. This website serves as a repository to evidence and support my research.
Car World shows my interest in cars and how they work, individual project show my obsession with this subject.
Legacy Project is about people who take part in a sport and have been inspired by the success of the Olympic Games in London, 2012. This work was exhibited at Leeds Museum in the summer of 2016 (to coincide with the Rio Games)
Kirkgate Market is a project I undertook with a colleague Jonathan Turner about the market in Leeds.
CV
Higher Education Academy, 2019
HEA Fellow
MA by Research in Contemporary Fine Art Practice
Leeds Metropolitan University, 2012
Thesis title: “The family album: An exploration into the connection between the family photograph, (the event) and memory recollection.”
PCET (PGCE)
University of Huddersfield, 2004
BA Hons Photography, 1998
Exhibitions and shows
Staff Room, 55 Albion Street, Leeds
4th October 2019 - 26th October 2018
Family Snaps (Group Show)
Legacy, Community Gallery, Leeds Museum
23rd May 2016 – 31st August 2016
Exhibiting Artist, Solo exhibition. Images of people from Leeds who engage in sport. Shot Spring 2015 – summer 2016
The Grand Art Project #3: Photography Sculpture @42 New Briggate Grand Theatre, Leeds
19th November 2015 – 5th December 2015
Curator and Exhibiting Artist, work exhibited: Another Can of Coca-Cola.
Images taken from a wider project exploring Walter Benjamin’s theory of uniformity within mass production. Three cans of Coca-Cola bought on the same day from three supermarkets and photographed in the same conditions to explore, colour, print and similarity (quality control).
Three A4 digital prints framed
The Grand Art Project #2: Video and Appropriation @42 New Briggate Grand Theatre, Leeds
29th October 9th 2015 – 14th November 2015
Curator and Exhibiting Artist, Work exhibited: The search for Beach Road.
A film the documents the journey to find the location of a past memory in somewhere in Northern France sometime in 1979 or 1980.
Moving image (Digital Projection)
Work exhibited: Who do I think I am?
A series of images (6) that explore genealogy (using both artist images and appropriated family snaps). Six 7”x5” Shop Machine Prints Framed
The Grand Art Project #1: Documentary, @42 New Briggate Grand Theatre, Leeds
October 9th 2015 - October 24th 2015
Curator and Exhibiting Artist, work exhibited: VW Community Project (4) Tableau Portraits of a group of car enthusiasts
Four A1 digital prints mounted on MDF
NUMBER 2: pairs, diptychs & general juxtaposition, Northern Monk Refectory, Leeds
September 5th – November 27th 2015
Exhibiting Artists, work exhibited: Mum and Dad. Portraits of my parents (shot summer 2015, Brittany France)
Two A3 digital prints framed
Leeds International Book Fair, The Tetley, Leeds
March 5th – 6th 2015
Work Exhibited: Almanac, a collection of work by Creative Arts Staff at Leeds City College
Oblong Cinema, Woodhouse Community Centre, Leeds
13th November 2014
Exhibiting Artist, work exhibited: The search for Beach Road.
A film the documents the journey to find the location of a past memory in somewhere in Northern France sometime in 1979 or 1980.
Moving image (Digital Projection)