Tag: COLCHESTER
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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR ARTISTS: JOBAN GILL AT THE MINORIES
Joban Gill is a mixed-media artist creating narrative works of art through layering images and mediums. Her work focusses on the human form but the environments she creates for them are always evolving. In September Joban’s solo exhibition ‘It’s All a Blur’ at The Minories in Colchester invited viewers into a space where memories lived…
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HOME / WORK Project: SARA BARKER
Sara Barker is a jewellery maker who designs and makes her own jewellery and runs every aspect of her business from her home studio, in addition to being employed part-time as a lecturer at Colchester School of Art. Sara and I had a really interesting conversation about the balance of working from home, her experiences…
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HOME / WORK Project: DAVID CHILVERS
David Chilvers makes videos about miniature games, which he shares on his YouTube Channel Olden Demon, a channel about rediscovering the joy in old Games Workshop products (or is it something more sinister..?) He describes his work as “literally just working on a laptop, pretty much typing out all my thoughts, occasionally standing up and doing the same…
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HOME / WORK Project: NYE PARRY
Nye Parry is a composer and sound artist who produces creative work from his home studio. I met Nye through his wife and frequent collaborator Madi Boyd, whose home studio I also photographed. I asked Nye: When did you start working from home? I’ve always worked from home most of the time, alongside teaching work.…
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HOME / WORK Project: MADI BOYD
Madi Boyd is an installation and ceramic artist who sculpts light and space by combining built environments with projected video and hand builds ceramic homeware and art. I met Madi through Creative Colchester events and it was fantastic to visit her spacious home studio, which is built in a former garage in her house. I…
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HOME / WORK Project: NEL MOOY
Nel Mooy is an artist who creates lino prints as well as working in her employed job in insurance from her garden office at home. I met Nel through her wife, Angela, whose ceramics studio I also photographed. It was wonderful to visit Nel’s purpose-built office/studio to see how work, home and artistic practice all…
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HOME / WORK Project: Angela Godwin
Angela Godwin is a studio ceramist who focuses on creating beautiful and interesting, functional and sculptural ceramics using life drawing, pareidolia, layering, patterns and mark making as inspiration for making and decorating her pieces. I met Angela at the Cuckoo Farm Studios ‘Presents’ Christmas show, where she is an associate artist. It was fantastic to…
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Notes on October
October was busy. I got some test shots on 120 film back from AG Photolab, there was a good balance of different jobs (some in places with good views of London), though sadly I can’t really share them just yet, which makes a photo blog challenging. I saw 2 excellent rainbows, visited the sea twice…
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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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PHOTOGRAPHY FOR FIRSTSITE: LUNAR LULLABIES, A NEW CAFÉ & THE ANTIQUES ROADSHOW
In June I had a couple of lovely commissions at Firstsite. I photographed the opening of Lunar Lullabies, their latest exhibition, took some updated photographs of the foyer area with its brand new café and captured a lively day of activity with the BBC Antiques Roadshow being filmed on the Berryfield Lawn. Exploring space and science, Lunar Lullabies is inspired by Jane Taylor’s…