Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Hope, memories, loss and community
Four stories of regeneration in Glasgow

Eastwood Park Gallery, Giffnock – July – September 2010

I am currently exhibiting my multimedia project that I handed in for my Masters in Documentary Photography. The exhibition of prints and films is being shown at the Eastwood Park Gallery in Giffnock, just outside Glasgow. The exhibition runs from the 12th July to the 12 September 2010.  A special reception and screening will be held on Thursday 9th September at 7pm. Download a flyer here or details below:

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Previous Exhibitions

I have been exhibiting my photography work since 2005 throughout the UK, exhibiting in a range of venues across London, Glasgow and North Lanarkshire. My most recent exhibitions have featured work from my MA Documentary Photography project on the close of Paddy’s Market and the loss of a unique Glasgow institution and other stories of regeneration in Glasgow. My photography and short films have been used by several international charities and shown at several awareness raising events to promote various issues such as AIDS, Genocide, Conflict and Institutionalisation.  In addition to exhibiting mounted or framed prints I also have a portfolio of short multimedia films using photography, video and audio which can be used and I am available for talks and discussions (more on this here).  If you would like to contact me about exhibition possibilities please get in touch.

Remembering Paddy’s Market one year on – May to July 2010

To mark the one year anniversary I designed and installed a self funded special photography and multimedia exhibition space within the Barra’s Market in Glasgow. One of the indoor market stalls was transformed – plastered, painted and lit to make it a unique, if not one of the smallest gallery’s you may have seen and came complete with Paddy’s coffin. The reason the venue was in the Barra’s Market itself is that many of the original traders of Paddy’s Market set up within the market after the closure of Paddy’s (many of them struggling, as their days of trading have been cut from 6 days to 2 days per week).

It was equally important to me that this show was exhibited and seen in a space out with a regular gallery, and also to highlight the issue that the Barra’s Market will no doubt be the next Glasgow institution to be closed. The opening night of the exhibition was held on the 15th May 2010, one year on to the day that Paddy’s was closed.  Traders and friends joined for a screening and piss up to celebrate Paddy’s one year on – gone but not forgotten!

Photographs of the exhibition space and opening night can be viewed below:

Beyond Borders – March 2010

Some photographs from my MA course were shown at an exhibition in London in March 2010:

A Swedish photographer based in England and working in Kaliningrad, Lukashenka’s Belarus seen through the eyes of an American photographer living in Sweden, a disparate collection of Londoners photographing their own visions of London and an insider’s view of the divided communities living in the coal mining region of West Virginia. These are just some of the stories in Beyond Borders, an exhibition featuring the work of 16 very different photographers from nine countries on show in London’s Printspace gallery from March 10 until April 2 2010.

Shot on everything from medium format cameras to mobile phones, and with genres including experimental street photography, portraiture and traditional in-your-face photojournalism, Beyond Borders represents the collective results of the first ever online master’s degree course in photojournalism and documentary photography at the London College of Communication, a bold and groundbreaking experiment reflecting the current monumental changes within the industry. http://www.16photographers.com

Worlds – Sep 2009

Thirteen west of Scotland based photographers, all members of Scottish Photographers, have come together to exhibit their work at the Lillie Art Gallery. Group shows are a rarity for members of Scottish Photographers, so the exhibition at the Lillie Art Gallery offers the unusual opportunity to view the work of a selected number of its members in a single gallery space. This diverse group of individuals has created a dynamic exhibition with images ranging from modern digital photographic prints to work that has been produced reviving historic methods. Scottish Photographers has been operating for just over 5 years and membership is open to all those interested in photography, whether they are amateurs, professionals or students. The thirteen photographers exhibiting at the Lillie, include the renowned photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper who is head of the Fine Art Photography course at Glasgow School of Art; Melanie Sims, a Bearsden based self taught photographer; Douglas McBride who works as a commercial photographer and Keith Ingham for whom photography has been a long term passion and who has been exhibiting his work since the 1970s.

The importance of travel to many of the photographers is illustrated in the far flung locations of New York, Italy, Cambodia and Japan, where the people of the area, buildings and sculpture have been recorded. Scotland is not forgotten, with broad open views of island landscapes including Skye. Thomas Joshua Cooper’s black and white photographs, their characteristic power and drama portrayed through the contrasts of light and shade, present the vastness of the landscape devoid of human presence.
The interest of photographers through the ages for recording the daily lives of people is also represented here. A record of the demise of Paddy’s Market in Glasgow shows the passing of this long established tradition of market trading within the city.

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