One of the scarier aspects of SYP is the fundamental idea of showing your work to strangers. So I thought it would be good for my confidence to revisit what I have already achieved in this regard. When I itemise it I realise that I have published or displayed more of my work than I thought. Much of it is not directly related to my OCA work, although I consider it all useful experience.
In timeline order:
- April 2015: “Places & People”
- A month-long solo exhibition of 20 black-and-white prints from miscellaneous OCA and personal projects, in the function room of the Sun Inn, Pickering
- From memory I sold two or three prints
- April 2016: “It’s a Colourful Life”
- I was asked back for another month-long solo exhibition, this time featuring 20 colour prints from miscellaneous OCA and personal projects, at the Sun’s exhibition space
- This time I sold 10 of the framed prints
- April 2017: “Paw Prints“:
- Another month-long exhibition at the Sun but this time a series of commissioned portraits of dogs owned by local people
- This actually led to me setting up a pet portraiture business for the following few years, but that is another story…
- February 2018: “In Search of Lost Gloves”
- A (very) early version of BoW Assignment 3 was made into a handmade book for the purposes of entering into a local book fair in York, organised by a photography collective called Lens Think Yorkshire and a creative organisation called Print Stuff
- The book was selected for inclusion and presented in the book fair for the duration of the event (a month)
- April 2018: “In Search of Lost Gloves”
- Off the back of the book fair I was invited to publish an edit of BoW Assignment 3 as a guest blog post on a curated photography blog Fable & Folk
- I was also interviewed about the work
- May 2018: “Memory Waves”
- A popup exhibition of portraits from my BoW Assignment 2, at the Moorside Rooms, Kirkbymoorside
- For one day only as part of a Dementia Action Week
- Same set displayed for a second pop-up exhibition in August of same year as part of a local singing event
- July 2018: “Canine Headshots”
- A mini-exhibition (one week, six images) at Joe Cornish Gallery in Northallerton
- As part of their ‘Dog Week’ programme of events
- June 2019: “Two Kinds of People?”
- I submitted a project I did back in 2017 as part of the Level 2 Documentary course to an open call organised by the photography website/zine Photograd, themed around Brexit
- I was selected for inclusion, featured on their website and interviewed about the work
- July 2019: “Brand New Day”
- Collaborative photobook on a given theme
- Six of my abstract images were included alongside the work of five other photographers
- One of my images was selected for the front cover
- March 2020: “Two Kinds of People?” digital archive
- The work, as seen on the Photograd site mentioned above, was selected to be included in the Harvard College Library digital archive on Brexit
[awaiting link / screenshot ]
- July 2020: “Prom Scene”
- A single image I took in January 2020, unrelated to my OCA body of work, was submitted to a Feature Shoot / The Print Swap open call, and was selected for inclusion
- The selection includes the image being exhibited at a one-day exhibition at the BBA Circle Gallery in Berlin in July 2020
So apparently I have published / exhibited more work than I thought!
This is encouraging; it makes the idea of building a publication or exhibition around my BoW project less daunting.
Well done Rob; it looks like a good selection of work that you have put out there and includes a varied set of contexts from gallery to web!
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Cheers!
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Impressive, can’t see what you have any concerns, the BoW is good and you have done plenty before.
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Thanks Doug 👍
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I think this will prove valuable experience though I don’t think you have anything to worry about, your work is fabulous. I wish I’d realised you were so local to me (also Pickering area) – I could have experienced the exhibitions first hand!
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Thanks! Where are you based then?
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Just in Allerston 😀
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