"Don't Worry Everything Is Going To Be Amazing"

Well what I can say that this doesn't already! As we are nearing the end of this year and heading into 2012, I think this is such a perfect way to starting thinking about the year ahead. Much has happened this year and I want to take this opportunity to whole heartedly thank everyone who has supported my practice and given me many amazing opportunities that I have excitedly taken too. The New Year is promising to be a very exciting one also, with my book being released in March/April and many exhibitions planned throughout, which I will of course keep you updated with.

But I want to thank you all for your continued support and wish you a very wonderful Christmas and an amazing New Year, see you in 2012!

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Photo50

I am very excited to announce that 5 works from the series "The Photograph as Contemporary Art" are part of the Photo50 exhibition at the London Art Fair in January 2012, other contributing artists include Michael Wolf, Esther Teichmann, Joy Gregory to name a few . The show is curated by Sue Steward and is called "The New Alchemists: Contemporary Photographers Transcending the Print." Below is the text for the exhibition.

"This year, Photo50 opens up a spectrum of contemporary photography from the analogue to the digital. This selection of work by twelve photographers focuses on different ways of representing an image and it reveals the broad range of processes involved in image-making. I label them ‘alchemists’ because the term resonates with the ancient practitioners of photography, the experimenters with chemicals and paper, the pioneers of ‘writing with light’ which is what photo-graphy literally means.

Many images in this exhibition were produced through analogue processes and reveal surprising similarities with their digital counterparts; many mingle the two. There is also the changing assumption that the photographic print is the finished object, the ultimate goal of production. But it is no longer necessarily the end-point; the printed paper is enduring the transformation, partially destroyed or decorated, re-built to take on a new dimension – and becoming an original art work in its own right.

The works in Photo50 highlight the richness and diversity of photography today. It’s almost impossible now to define ‘photography’ because of its porous nature and its convergence with painting film and craft, demonstrated in this exhibition. It is a vast art form - and London is a hub for these significant, beautiful, seismic changes."

Read more here: http://www.londonartfair.co.uk/page.cfm/Link=58/t=m/goSection=15

Tacita Dean

I have been meaning to post about this beautiful show currently on at the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern that I went to see two weekends ago. I can honestly say that is a truly stunning, tender, visualisation of what analogue film means to an artist. The darkened Turbine hall is lit up with the central column of 35 mm film, changing, developing in terms of colour, shape and emotion. In some ways it's very reminiscent of the act of processing film, silent, soft with marks that appear then disappear. The film is incredibly beautiful and very inspiring.

As Tacita states, "I chose to make an experimental 35 mm film inside the camera, and so revive spontaneity and risk. I wanted to show film as film can be, and use no post-production other than my normal editing process and the grading that happens in the lab..... I found its rhythm and metre from the material itself, relying not only on the images I had, but on what is normally considered waste: the picture fading at the tail end of a roll, the shimmering metamorphosis of a colour filter change.... "Film" is about film, and in the end, I let the material's intrinsic magic be my guide."

Tacita's film is on from 11th October 2011 until 11th March 2012 at The Tate Modern

Hong Kong Stickers

So as my feature in PHOTO+ is published in South Korea, the Asian promotion is spreading as my Pre-Sale flyers are put up in Hong Kong! A very special thank you to a certain someone who braved the Chinese authority and posted these around HK, more photographs to follow shortly. I think it is also very important to say a very special thank you to Kummer & Herrman for making such an amazingly successful flyer.

See more of their work here: http://www.kummer-herrman.nl/

PHOTO+ Magazine

Usually December is packed with me preparing for Christmas and winding down for the holidays, well this year it is completely the opposite as I am preparing for what is going to be a very busy year for me next year, I can't wait!

But to start off this December I have an 8 page article in a fantastic South Korean Photography magazine called PHOTO+. The article features my series "The Photograph as Contemporary Art" with a written text and eight images. It is great to see the body of work so far reaching. Above is how the features reads and what a great cover for a magazine!

See more here:http://www.iphotoplus.co.kr/v2/current.php?Sub=current&lang=k

Secret Postcards

As its the RCA Secret Postcard sale tomorrow, I wonder how many people are hoping to find themselves a bargain buy, maybe a Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry or Anish Kapoor for only forty-five pounds. Well whether I brave the crowds tomorrow morning and head down to Kensington Gore is yet to be decided but here are my favourites.

See more here: http://dams.rca.ac.uk/res/sites/RCA_Secret/

Promotion

So as I posted already about bill stickers, here is some more examples of the very great sticker promotion! It spread all around Paris, from Saint Germain, Pigalle right through to the Palais de Tokyo, while looking up at the Eiffel Tower. What has happened now is it seems to be spreading across the water right into London. A very big thank you to a certain individual who posted on a post box - perfect! Keep looking around London, they are going to start appearing more and more.

Bill Stickers

So I have now returned from my trip to Paris, Paris Photo, Off Print and Nofound which really was an excellent trip, filled with much laughter, great work, wine and fantastic company. I will post later about what went on in Paris, which exhibitions I saw, the overall debrief of the trip. but first a lovely little image that shows off the flyers that my designers made for the pre-sale of my publication, coming in early 2012.

I collected the package from my designers Kummer & Herrman on Friday afternoon at Le Bal, a lovely little exhibition space with an incredible cafe serving some amazing food. I was very excited to see what they were like and they are truly fantastic! You can peal off the middle section of the flyer, so it was only right to promote the book in the correct fashion, spreading the word around Paris with the stickers! A special thank you to everyone who participated, very funny indeed! The image above is a little taster of what, where and how they look.

Paris, Off Print, Pre-order Publication Leaflet

As it is getting very close to Paris Photo now and I am arriving in Paris on Thursday I felt you should see what I have been planning! My wonderful designers Kummer & Herrman have been very busy producing my pre-order publication leaflets. I will be in Paris Photo on Friday day and Off Print pretty much the rest of the time, with a little trip to the Nofound Photo Fair.

Please get in touch if you would like a pre-order card as they really are beautiful and really start to show you what the concept of the book is going to be. I will also have the Book Dummy which you might even get a glimpse of too. See you in Paris!

NPG

As the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize opens tomorrow night, I thought it only right to draw your attention to my good friends work, Tina Hillier, whose portrait of me has been selected for the exhibition, very exciting! This portrait was taken in early January 2011 in Turku, Finland. To see more of Tina's work see here: http://www.tinahillier.com/

Hijacked Artists Announced

The final selection of artists / photographers for Hijacked v.3 AUS / UK have now been announced and I am in very, very good company. UK Artists include Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Seba Kurtis, Trish Morrissey, Simon Roberts and WassinkLundgren to name but a few.

See here for the other artists and for more information: http://bigcitypress.com.au/blog/

The British Journal of Photography

"The Photograph as Contemporary Art" series is now published in the new October issue of the BJP in the portfolio section. The publication is ten full colour pages and the opening text is by Simon Bainbridge. The above pictures are a few of the pages in the article.

Simon Bainbridge writes, "If Melinda Gibson’s photomontages look familiar, don’t be surprised. A flash of Ed Burtynsky here, a slice of Juergen Teller there, they are all made up of elements of some of the major works of the 1990s and 2000s, culled from the pages of The Photograph As Contemporary Art. Written and edited by Charlotte Cotton (former curator at the V&A and LACMA, and now creative director of the UK’s National Media Museum), it is one of the key texts for students starting out in photographic education. Which is precisely why the 26-year-old, who graduated from London College of Communication in 2006 and is now a visiting lecturer herself, chose to use it."

See more of the article online and inprint: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/feature/2103858/photograph-contemporary-art