Last few weeks to see Unfamiliar Territory
It’s hard to believe it’s been almost four months since the private view, but suddenly there’s only a fortnight to go to see the exhibition Unfamiliar Territory at Falmouth Art Gallery, which features my infrared photography alongside famous Cornish painters including Kurt Jackson and Patrick Heron. The exhibition has had over 8000 visitors since it started. When it’s over, the gallery is keeping my prints to add to their permanent collection.
The private view was a joy – as I’ve half-jokingly told everyone, I felt famous for two hours. Over 100 people turned up and a good time was had by all (the free wine helped). The shop has sold out of my book, Welcome to St. Decay, and postcards several times over, and I’ve had to resupply them with additional copies.
This website has had a shop for a while now, selling a selection of prints from the book. I hope to add books, postcards and other prints soon. Etsy still sells copies of Welcome to St. Decay.
A3 (297mm x 420mm) Photo Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm
A3 (297mm x 420mm) Photo Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm
A3 (297mm x 420mm) Photo Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm
A3 (297mm x 420mm) Photo Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm
A3 (297mm x 420mm) Photo Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm
Cornwall as it’s never been seen before, in glorious infrared. Welcome to St. Decay celebrates Cornwall’s mining heritage through a lurid colour palette.
Taken over a six-month period walking and cycling around the Cornish countryside from St. Agnes to St. Austell, the book explores nature’s gradual but inevitable reclamation of the man made, focusing on abandoned engine houses where ivy climbs the chimneys and walls. For me, these engine houses are as grand and beautiful as any cathedral or castle and deserve to be celebrated.
All photos were taken by me with an infrared camera and I designed the book too.
Book specifications:
2nd edition, softback, full colour, 58 pages, size 120x120mm.
A selection of 12 A6 postcards of Cornwall’s mining landscape in infrared, taken from the book Welcome to St. Decay.
120gsm matt poster. Based on a riverside warning sign in Richmond, London, it is perhaps cautionary advice for graphic designers.
It’s funny that my
thighs tingle as if
ridden by flies
A 32 page, A5, fully illustrated book of poems about thighs. Yes, thighs.
Pulp Poetry started life as correspondence between Joy and myself sometime in 1995. We could never remember who, what or why we started writing poems about thighs to each other. Some might have even called it bizarre. But the poems proved so popular that (three) other people contributed. These poems formed the basis of the anthology Pulp Poetry featured in Joy’s now legendary art exhibition / happening, Much Ado About Nothing in September 2000. The poems and book lay dormant in their somewhat amateurish state until some years later when the creators thought it needed a redesign and reissue. It was finally printed professionally (previously, the only few existing copies were printed on home inkjet printers) over fifteen years after we starting sending them, in memory of Joy Bedford. She will be dearly missed by many.
A personal, architectural, photographic and cultural guide to the Grade II-listed Alton estate in Roehampton, London, where I lived many years ago. Contains over 100 photos.
A5 softback book, 40 pages.
Homeless Movies [hohm-lis moo-vees]
–noun
1. Films without a home; rootless; unwanted.
2. Less or worse quality than home movies.
The Homeless Movies DVD contains 46 films and videos created over 20 years and includes award-winning adverts and documentaries, home movies, music videos, self-indulgent student films and travel documentaries. The box set also contains a booklet and a selection of postcards of film posters.
A3 (297mm x 420mm) Photo Giclée Fine Art Print on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, 285gsm