EXHIBITIONS
Grand Theatre, Blackpool Jacob’s Market, Cardiff. October 2015
Part of a group exhibition, Future Past, for the M.A. in documentary photography, Newport, University of South Wales. Grand Theatre plays with the duality of the carnivalesque and anti-carnivalesque, the grand and the grotesque. In the medieval carnival, everything was turned upside-down; bawdiness and eccentricity reigned, men become women and the fool became the king. But always during carnival was the knowledge that the everyday was never far away in the form of the hangover, the back-to-work and the price-to-pay. If ever there was a carnivalesque town, Blackpool is it; still weaving the magic and the dream with the fish and the chips.
A Random Walk National Graphene Institute, Manchester. December 2016
Permanent exhibition and photobook commissioned by the National Graphene Institute. Graphene is the world’s first 2D material, just one atom thick. It is young, growing and evolving. A Random Walk describes the practicalities, the work and the feelings of those making this revolution happen.
Taken from Andre Geim’s acceptance lecture Random Walk to Graphene when, in 2010 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Konstantin Novoselov, this collection of photographs is a random walk around graphene, the monochrome form of the portraits referencing the colour of graphite, the carbon crystal from which graphene is exfoliated. At this point in time there are over 250 researchers working across the University of Manchester, research that stretches deeper and wider than anywhere else in the world.
Graphene has opened the door to a new family of two-dimensional materials, the new materials of our age. If, like silicon, it becomes so ubiquitous, it will cease to feel remarkable. Then, the photographic moment will serve as a small memento of these remarkable people engaged in a remarkable collective project.
Age Concerns University of Manchester. July 2018
Exhibition commissioned to accompany the 47th Annual Conference of the British Society of Gerontology. Age Concerns is a smattering of stories of people ageing, but not defined by age. Jo & Judy, Len & Babs, Dave & Merryn, Hugh & Roy & Bill. Amrik & Jackie, Anne & Fatima, Barbara, Edith & Pat, Marjorie & John & of course Harry. Painting & honouring Donna, travel & hunger, Entebbe, Ireland & getting by, just. Friendship, family, cake, loss, & accounting. Folks’ stories shown on Mancunian streets.
A Hungarian Rhapsody Liverpool Biennial Fringe. Adelphi Hotel. July 2018
Exhibition shown as part of Hidden Worlds group exhibition with Unio Collective. An archival project combining spoken word, images, text and material objects telling the story of a fifty-year Hungarian love story. These two lives sparkle with curiosity, enquiry and integrity in a constantly shifting political context. From the Arrow Cross, the Hungarian fascists in World War II, to communist occupation and the 1956 uprising, to the present day populist government. Politics touches all areas of life in Hungary but what all these regimes share, is the demand on their citizens to conform and toe the party-line. Original thought, creativity and outward-looking curiosity can have real consequences for people like George and Ági who could not but help, peep under and over the iron curtain that Hungary placed around its citizens.