Category: TRIVIAL MATTER

  • EXHIBITION: SUMMER OPEN EXHIBITION AT THE MINORIES
    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 –…

  • TRIVIAL MATTER
    TRIVIAL MATTER

    Making time for personal projects is always tricky – when things are busy it’s hard to find the time, and sometimes there’s just a bit of an ebb and flow in creativity. So instead of working on a specific project for a set period my approach more recently has been to have several things just…

  • Online Exhibition – Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life, Analog Forever
    Online Exhibition – Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life, Analog Forever

    I’m really pleased that ‘My favourite weekday coffee cup’, the photograph of the cup I smashed on my way down the stairs that I told you about recently, has been selected to be shown in Analog Forever Magazine‘s online group exhibition ‘Fleeting Moments: Temporality and the Still Life‘.  I really identified with the brief, set by fine art photographer…

  • Notes on a photograph: A broken cup
    Notes on a photograph: A broken cup

    A while ago I shared a short project I’d done, photographing the cups and mugs I use for my quite particular tea and coffee drinking habits. This photograph is a follow up to that but also probably an insight into why I photograph ‘the everyday’ quite so much: these things mean something to me but they don’t…

  • Notes on equipment: Fixing the light leak in my Mamiya RB67
    Notes on equipment: Fixing the light leak in my Mamiya RB67

    This is a very dull post about fixing a camera – I’m sharing it in case it helps someone else with a similar problem, but feel free to skip this if you’re not into such things!  When I was at uni I borrowed a Mamiya RB67 for a project I was working on and I…