Category: TRIVIAL MATTER
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HIVE ZINE FAIR 2026
I’m very excited to be taking part in the Hive Zine Fair in Chelmsford on 25 April! Hosted by Hive Artists Studios at Patch in Chelmsford town centre and free to visit, there are over 30 artists taking part in the event with free workshops to try, plenty of fun things to see and buy,…
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AMASS ZINE 04: OUTDOOR SEATING
For a while I thought I’d leave Amass Zine as a trio, but I really like making them and it turns out I had another collection lurking in my camera roll… Amass Zine 04: Outdoor seating is a small foldy zine about chairs at the sides of roads. Are they abandoned old reliables? Somewhere to…
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EXHIBITION: SUMMER OPEN EXHIBITION AT THE MINORIES
I’m really pleased to be exhibiting a piece in the Summer Open Exhibition at The Minories gallery in Colchester. Featuring artworks by over 200 artists from across the UK and in a variety of media, the exhibition is taking over the entire Minories building until Sunday 11 August 2024. Make sure you visit if you can –…
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TRIVIAL MATTER
Making time for personal projects is always tricky – when things are busy it’s hard to find the time, and sometimes there’s just a bit of an ebb and flow in creativity. So instead of working on a specific project for a set period my approach more recently has been to have several things just…
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Online Exhibition – Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life, Analog Forever
I’m really pleased that ‘My favourite weekday coffee cup’, the photograph of the cup I smashed on my way down the stairs that I told you about recently, has been selected to be shown in Analog Forever Magazine‘s online group exhibition ‘Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life‘. I really identified with the brief, set by fine art photographer…
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Notes on a photograph: A broken cup
A while ago I shared a short project I’d done, photographing the cups and mugs I use for my quite particular tea and coffee drinking habits. This photograph is a follow up to that but also probably an insight into why I photograph ‘the everyday’ quite so much: these things mean something to me but they don’t…
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Notes on equipment: Fixing the light leak in my Mamiya RB67
This is a very dull post about fixing a camera – I’m sharing it in case it helps someone else with a similar problem, but feel free to skip this if you’re not into such things! When I was at uni I borrowed a Mamiya RB67 for a project I was working on and I…