Foam, Film and Food

It's been a long time since I last had some time to blog and there are many exciting things going on! Firstly, a little trip off to Amsterdam to have some meetings,  off to Utrecht to see my book designers and finalise the details of my forthcoming publication, which is slowly coming together but it very well worth the wait! Then Foam Photography Museum and onto the new Film centre across from Amsterdam city to have a lovely lunch with Hans, Adrian, David and Jaap - thank you all very much for a lovely trip.

New Exhibition opens at Griffith University Gallery in Brisbane, 27 April - 16 June 2012

"Hijacked III; Contemporary Photography from Australia and UK" travels to Brisbane and opened on Friday 27th April before it travels onto the Australian Centre for Photography in July.

Read more here: http://www.griffith.edu.au/visual-creative-arts/griffith-artworks/queensland-college-art-gallery/exhibition-program

Year Two - 731 Days

And so it dawns the second year, 731 days. It’s still a shock, its still hurts like nothing I’ve ever felt before, but this year something has changed.

Time has certainly helped, but at times is still a hindrance and as every year goes by we all heal a little more.

So it is time to finally set this body of work free, let it breath for itself and be honest ad true in its unedited entirety. I can’t say more than this was something that was so important in the process, my process and I feel it shows what happened, how I felt, how I feel without edits or ego. It simply uses photography as a process to aid my grief and nothing more.

To my dearest friend, I love you and will never forget you. You showed me how simple it needs to me, and how to believe, for that and everything else you stood for, this body of work and everything else I ever make will have you in it and be inspired by you. Thank You.

Out Now - Objektiv Issue 5

"The Photograph as Contemporary Art" features in the new issue of Objektiv out now! This issues focuses on"Lens is in its third vintage, and this number Anniversary focuses on the materiality of photography, photographers and presents photography that explores the opportunities through the visual creative process inthe camera and the photographs. This project involves experimenting with different material and technological components of photography as a medium."

Read more here: http://www.objektiv.no/

Czech Marie Claire - April Issue

New Publication out about my inspiration for Hugo Boss's "Poetic Tailoring" Spring/Summer Collection 2012 in the April issue of Marie Claire Czech! Nice to see the work and inspiration being featured together throughout Europe.

Thank You Cadiz

So the adventure started last Friday morning, early! It was a very family affair as my partner, I and my parents took to the skies and flew to Gibraltar to then drive into Spain and onto Cadiz. What an adventure it was, filled with much laughter and an abundance of great food and wine, not to mention the beautiful space that was the ECCO where the exhibition was held.

From start to finish, every minute of the trip was fantastic. The city of Cadiz itself is stunning and I would strongly recommend that if you are in the area, near Seville, then take the hour long drive to Cadiz, because the old city is truly lovely and the many restaurants, plaza's are great to enjoy a beer in the evening sun, (which we seemed to do a lot of!)

The exhibition opening was a great success with the Mayor of the city and other museum directors opening the show. The space is stunning, with arched ceilings and marbled floors, it was a true pleasure and honour to be exhibiting in such a great venue and in fact to be taken on a guided tour of the city at night by the major as well as an excellent meal - thank you very much to the city of Cadiz for making our stay so pleasurable.

The Power of Transformation - Image Magazine

New publication out now from the AOP, Image magazine reviewing the Photo 50 exhibition. "The Power of transformation" by Helena Rhodes, editor brings together a select group of artists from the exhibition by Sue Steward and talks about their work and inspirations. To read more about the article see here: http://home.the-aop.org/Latest_News

"Alice in Wonderland" exhibition tours to the Espacio de Creación Contemporánea (ECCO)

So "Alice in Wonderland" tours early than expected! The European Capital of Culture exhibition from Logomo tours from Turku, Finland to the new Contemporary Art Museum in Cadiz, the Espacio de Creación Contemporánea (ECCO). So with that in mind, I am off on Friday morning to sunny Spain for the opening - I am very excited, the space looks absolutely beautiful and I hear the city is stunning. I will post on my return the installation shots.

Read more here: http://www.valokuvataiteenmuseo.fi/en/component/content/article/10367

Hijacked III Publication

So here is the new publication by Big City Press, "Hijacked III - Contemporary Photography from Australia and UK". Very nice publication indeed and great selection of photographic work from very interesting artists. It is available to pre order from here:

http://bigcitypress.com.au/hijacked3.html

an Magazine

Another Editorial, but this time "The Photograph as Contemporary Art" makes it to the front cover! This is the March 2012 issue of an Magazine, with "Photomontage XVI" on the front and a little piece about the work in the inside cover. You can see more here: http://www.a-n.co.uk/publications/images/2021830

PICA & QUAD

Here are the installation shots from both PICA, the last two images and QUAD the top two. Very many thanks to both exhibition venues for providing installation shots, particularly PICA as I couldn't attend the opening in Perth, but the venue look incredible. QUAD looks fantastic and I am very pleased to be part of both. The publication produced in conjunction to this is really beautiful and I will post this soon.

More information on both venues can be found below:

PICA: http://www.pica.org.au/view/Hijacked+III%3A+Contemporary+Photography+from+Australia+%26amp%3B+the+UK./1338/

QUAD: http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hijacked

QUAD Derby Opening Friday 2nd March 2012

So the second Hijacked III exhibition opens this Friday 2nd March at QUAD Derby and as it's in the UK I will indeed be attending the Private View, so will update you with installation shots of both PICA, which I have just seen today and they look fantastic and QUAD after the opening.

QUAD information here: http://www.derbyquad.co.uk/whats-on/exhibitions/hijacked