'DISCOVER JESUS THIS SUMMER' PHOTOGRAPHS AT NEXUS ART CAFE, MANCHESTER

A series of photographs from my photography project 'Discover Jesus this Summer' are currently on show in the Nook room at Nexus Art Cafe, Manchester. The project is an ongoing exploration into the colourful ways that English churches attract new congregation through their fascinatingly original A2 sized advertisements. Most of the images were taken in and around Northwest England.

Below are a few installation shots. The exhibition is part of the Nexus Frames exhibition programme. 

Six photographs from the project 'Discover Jesus this Summer'

Close up view

'FOR THE ULTIMATE GOAL', 2011

I think that this is a great poster, one of my favourites! 

'Discover Jesus this summer', 2011

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'IDENTITY CRISIS' PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION HAS OPENED AT THE HARRIS MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, PRESTON

The show will run until Saturday 7th July 2012, so there is plenty of time to go and have a look...

My photographs are being exhibited as part of the Harris museum's Stairway exhibition programme, meaning that the photographs are installed on the walls alongside the grand first floor staircases. With 32 frames making up the exhibition, this could have been quite a challenge to install, but (lucky for me!) the fantastic expertise of gallery's exhibition team meant that the photographs were a pleasure to install and look great in the environment.

Past exhibition in the Stairway space...

Visitor information for the Harris Museum and Art Gallery:

www.harrismuseum.org.uk/visitor-information.html I'll post some installation shots here very soon...

32 FRAMES DROPPED OFF AND READY TO BE INSTALLED AT THE HARRIS MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY!

"To Literature, Arts and Science", Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston.

...PHEW! I find that travelling with a car load of fragile frames can be an exhausting experience.

I can't wait to see the work up in the space at install tomorrow - have a read of my previous post below to learn about the 3 photographic projects ('Ashley House', 'Desserts' & 'Ego Entertainment') that'll make up the Identity Crisis exhibition.

Identity Crisis will be on show from the 18th April - 7th July 2012 at the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston. Please support the show and let me know your thoughts!

NEW EXHIBITION 'ON BREAD ALONE' WILL OPEN NEXT WEDNESDAY 18TH APRIL AT NEXUS ART CAFE, MANCHESTER. 5PM - 7PM.
''A look at art as indulgence. A look at art as necessity" - Nexus Art Cafe

'On Bread Alone' has been curated by the art team at Nexus, the 12 artists exhibiting creatively responded to an open call inviting artists to explore the relationship between 'need' and creativity. For more info, have a look at the Nexus website!

Please come along next wednesday to indulge yourself!

MY NEXT SOLO EXHIBITION IS CALLED 'IDENTITY CRISIS' AND WILL BE AT THE HARRIS MUSEUM AND ART GALLERY, PRESTON!
Check out page 6 for more information!  http://issuu.com/harrismuseum/docs/feb-may12

The exhibition will be shown as part of the Harris' Stairway exhibitions program and will run from the 18th April 2012 - 7th July 2012. Identity Crisis will be made up of three of my photographic projects 'Desserts' (2011-12), 'Ego Entertainment' (2012) and 'Ashley House' (2008).

'Tart', Desserts (2011)

Desserts is a series that explores both women’s relationship with food and societies expectations for her ideal appearance. Whilst the lustrous photographic surface and subtly lit food in each image deliberately seek to allure the audience (mirroring media portrayals of femininity), the ‘beauty signifiers’ (hair, false nails etc.) recognised amongst the usually appealing puddings horrifically contaminate the desserts in quickly eliminating any appeal. 

The unpleasant images seek to illustrate the uncomfortable interior reality of a more honest female identity than media imagery typically represents, whilst exposing the manufactured signifiers of her exterior construction. 

For more images from the series, have a look at my website.

'Intimacy vs. Isolation (Spin the Bottle)', Ego Entertainment (2012)

“A game [..] enriches the process of definition of one’s own identity, enabling the individual to reinterpret his/her own experience in the new narrative configurations of that game.” – Rosa Gallelli

Ego Entertainment is a photographic project that uses children’s games to investigate the subject of identity construction in western culture. The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson theorised his understanding of this as the 8 stages of psychosocial development, which Ego Entertainment uses as a starting point. He believed that within each stage, an individual must accept the two conflicting extremes before gaining a ‘virtue’ (favourable outcome) and constituting a stable identity.

Through games of luck, pretend and narrative, images from the series work as a vehicle to illustrate the various stages of an individual’s determination in their search for ego identity. As I currently reside within the ‘Intimacy vs. Isolation’ category, I have made an artistic decision to not yet produce stages 7 and 8.

For more images from the series, have a look at my website.

'Wallpaper' & 'Swimming Pool', Ashley House (2008)

 “Family photography may both conceal and reveal, but its investigation can never end with the closed circle it appears to represent” - Patricia Holland

Ashley House is my Grandparents’ family home. The large house resides in Dorset and its land fills approximately 2.5 acres. Evidence of my Grandparents’ daily routine, my father’s childhood and my experience as a visitor is present in the photographs; therefore the series results as an autobiographical representation of three generations. 

For more images from the series, have a look at my website.