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Employment
University for the Creative Arts, Maidstone - Workshop Leader and Technician in the FE photography department. I conducted lessons on contemporary photographers and artists, taught alternative processes from liquid light to toning techniques, instructed students in the use of digital and analogue SLR cameras, computer programmes, tape/slide machines, and medium and large format cameras (for BA students). I also managed the black and white darkroom and photography stores, and daily answered technical and theoretical questions. (Sept 2004 - 2008)
Aim Higher - Taught seven art-specialist school teachers from Kent for a two-day workshop. I wrote the brief entitled Instant Imaging covering photomontage, photograms and cyanotype printing. I led participants in investigating these old techniques and contextualising them within contemporary photographic practice. (June 2007)
Making It - A West Kent Arts Partnership initiative funded by local authorities and Arts Council England. (Sept 2006- 07)
I taught a series of weekly experimental workshops to adults with no art-related background in four towns within West Kent. I covered macro photography, using microscopes to take photographs, underwater photography, pinhole photography, photograms, and cyanotypes. I also taught portfolio presentation, framing and mounting skills. In Maidstone, these workshops culminated in me selecting work and curating an exhibition for the students at Maidstone Museum.
Widening Participation - Teaching children from schools ages 15-17 photographic skills ranging from pinhole photography to liquid light as a taster day workshop. (Oct 2007)
Rochester School of Mathematics I taught the theory and practice of pinhole photography to students aged 11-18 on a Gifted and Talented programme for two days. (Jun 2007)
Aim Higher - Taught photographic workshops for a one-week art summer school for vulnerable students with various disabilities and learning difficulties. (July 2006)
Paul Dixon Photography - Photographic Assistant. I took responsibility for setting up flash and tungsten lighting on location and in the studio. I used a variety of digital large and medium format cameras, processed the final image and manipulated it in Photoshop. The work I assisted with varied from catalogue shots to landscape gardens. (2004)
Clifton Pro-Lab - I played a major role in the daily running of a professional processing laboratory where my duties included colour and black and white processing and black and white and R-type prints to exhibition standards. I also copied flat artwork and performed slide duplication. (2000-2001)
Redland Photography - I assisted a photographer who specialised in industrial and architectural photography, helping to take images of scale models and producing architectural blueprints. (1999-2000)
Education/Qualifications
2004 - 2:1 in BA (Hons) Visual Communication: Photomedia
2001 - Merit in RSA Advanced diploma in Foundation Photography and Audio Visual Studies
2000 - A In A-level Photographic Studies
1999 - Merit in BTEC National Diploma in Design
1998 - City and Guilds in Advanced Black and White Photography
1997 - NVQ Level 1 & 2 in Stonemasonry/Sculpture.
Grades B-C in GCSE in: Music, Religious Studies, Nuffield Double Science, Maths, English Literature, English Language, Geography, Art and Design.
Proffessional Certifications
Fully qualified Red Cross first aider
C.O.S.H.H registered Health and Safety
C.R.B registered
Registered Fire Safety Warden
Professional practice/development
Super 8mm Film Course at the Phoenix Centre, Brighton, taught by artist/filmmaker Ian Helliwell, doing stop frame animation, scratch animation,
editing techniques
Analogue Electronic Music Course, taught by artist Ian Helliwell, making analogue music instruments, from Theremins to ring modulators.
Other interests
Event Management
I co-organise experimental creative events called Lab Nights which showcase the work of emerging and established artists and performers, and provide creative activities and resources for audiences. www.labnights.com
Music Composition
I create electronic compositions on computer using electronic instruments alongside sounds I have recorded, noise generators I have constructed or adapted and found sound. I have performed my compositions live and have gained some radio play.
Exibitions
2009 - Viewpoint Gallery,Plymouth,a collaborative project entitled: Pinhole Journey Project with artist Jo Babcock (U.S.A).
2009 - Camera obscura, Trereice at national trust property Cornwall, permanent camera obscura tent and light experimentation chamber. Collaboration with pinhole photographer Justin Quinnell.
2009 - Ersatz camera work exhibition, San Francisco (U.S.A), collaboration with Jo Babcock.
2009 - Travelling Light, London/Venice 53rd biennale exhibition.
2007 - Photo London Month, Arts Pavilion at Mile End, Pinhole Balloon Project
2007 - London Independent Photography, 19th Annual exhibition, Cottons Atrium, London SE1, Pinhole Balloon Project
2007 - Dali Gallery, Southbank London, Re-Generation. Group exhibition dealing with the artistic visualisation of cancer and its many forms
2007 - The River Medway, Light Wave - A floating light sculpture. I created an immersive light environment installed under the millennium bridge on the river Medway, in Maidstone, Kent, as part of the river festival. I received a cultural grant to fund it, and as part of this project I ran workshops with local primary school children, where they made light-based sculptures and learned basic photographic skills
2007 - Maidstone Library Gallery, In the Loop. I exhibited my pinhole balloon project in an exhibition that was supported by University for the Creative Arts and Kent County Council
2007 - Liverpool Biennial Fringe Museum MAN. A group exhibition using found photographic work
2007 - End Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University, Objects in Waiting. An exhibition using found objects
2007 - Surface Gallery, Nottingham, Pinhole Parcel Project. Exhibiting a Mail Art project
2006 - Waterloo Gallery, London, Bookmarked. Hand-made bookmarks reacting to ideas of W.G. Sebald books
2006 - Leeds Project y . Pyschogeography project ending in an exhibition, publication and website.
2006 - Start Contemporary Gallery, Brighton Photo Fringe Festival, zoophyte. Group exhibition of pinhole photographic work
2006 - Red Gate Gallery, London, Unknown Control. Group exhibition of photographic and installation work with Mark Selby and Jane Packham
2006 - Euro-Art Gallery, London, Pinhole Parcel Project solo show
2006 - Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2D Lens Based Exhibition, Light/Dark
2004 - London Independent Photography 14th Annual Exhibition, Helios Chamber. Documentation and images of camera obscuras I made in old bomb shelters around West Kent
2004 - Waterloo Gallery, London. Group exhibition of photographic work
2003 - Brick Lane, London, 1941-1999 Group exhibition of photographic work
1999 - Watershed Gallery Bristol, Wing Walker's Project. Photo-montage and mixed media work in collaboration with two other artists.
Publications
2009 - Ersatz camera work exhibition catalogue, San Francisco (U.S.A), collaboration with Jo Babcock.
2009 - Telegraph newspaper, Article published about Englands largest camera obscura in National trust property in Trerice,a collaborative project with Justin Quinnell.
2009 - Peep, contemporary arts magazine, Article published about my practice as a pinhole photographer.
2009 - Without Lenses, Article published about Pinhole Litter Project and Pinhole Parcel Project.
2008 - Inscape Magazine, Life Issue, Geoff. Series of photographs.
2007 - Artist Quarter Quarterly Interview on the Lab Nights event-series I organise
2006 - London Independent Photography Magazine Pinhole Parcel Project. Images and article
2006 - Museum MAN, Bookwork. Documentation of collaborative project
2005 - Wind Blown Clouds by Alec Finlay. Front-cover image plus images inside book
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