Precession: The motion of a spinning body, such as a top, gyroscope, or planet
“By its very nature photography involves abstraction, or the reduction of human vision to a two-dimensional representation. In my work the strong geometry that exists in nature is pared back to its simplest form; the horizon no longer provides reference for perspective but becomes divider of the picture plane. The flatness and scale of the captured image, together with the treatment of light, seems to align the work more firmly with hard edged modernist painting than photorgaphy.
These simple horizons are formed by harnessing the avaiable light long after sunset and prior to sunrise, or more recently by day, capturing forever changing hues of sea and sky. With exposures of up to an hour I aim to examine the distinct boundaries between real and pictorial space, solid matter and light, ‘the full’ and ‘the void’.”
D.O.B. 1967
Education:
BA (Hons) Fine Art, Brighton University, 1989
MA Photography, London College of Printing, 2001
Exhibitions/awards/prizes:
1989 Sussex Young Artist of the Year
Commissions:
Mcgraw Hill, Canary Wharf
Picador - Book cover - The Brink, Jacob Polley
Solo exhibitions:
Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea
Dartmouth Gallery, London
Group exhibitions:
Hastings Art Gallery, Hastings
Towner Arts Centre, Eastbourne
Gardener Arts Centre, Brighton
Mirror Gallery, Clerkenwell
The Art Pavilion, London
Fresh Art, London
Palmeria Fine Art Gallery, Brighton
Creative Consultants Gallery, Manchester
Fotofest, Houston, Texas
Affordable Art Fair, London, 2003
London Art Fair, ART2004
'Light Reality' Photorealism, Tapestry, Frith St, London
'Spaces' Mark Jason Fine Art, london
Gallery 58, Northampton
Affordable Art Fair 2004
Manchester Art Show 2004
Television: BBC1/UK Style 'Put your money where your house is'.
