Exhibitions

Went to some exhibitions at the Fruit Market Gallery, The Ingleby Gallery and the RSA in Edinburgh today. Anna Barriball's work at the Fruit Market was by far my favourite, and easily the best exhibition I've ever seen there. I loved her found photograph works... makes me think I should maybe start doing something with my ever growing collection of found photos

The above image has to be my favourite from all the works I saw today.

Third Year, Semester Two, Week 9

A little bit of what I've been upto over the past few days; looking at layering text over text, or text over image. Been using the laser cutter to engrave into different materials, which has been fun!

Laser cutting into glass, which is only visible when the light catches it.

5x4 Ilford HP5+ contact print behind laser cut glass

Also been looking at my light boxes and wether or not they would work best in my slide projector piece, or as a separate work all together. I want the images to appear to be a very regular sight, just pictures of people 'family snaps', but its not until the viewer gets closer that they realise things are missing from the images (books from the book shelves, coats in the cloak room, etc). How they are presented below mimics how the family photographs are presented up the stairs in my Grans house. I'm also going to make some shelves and look at presenting them like that but right now I'm very undecided about the presentation.

Layering laser engraved paper over the light boxes. I really like the nice glow you get from the text, and think it makes people focus on the light, which is what I'm aiming for!

All texts are excerpts from my diary I kept of every visit to my Gran in hospital, her death, funeral, and beginning to clear her home. The house will be sold at lunch time tomorrow, so I made a final visit over the week end to take my final pictures in the series of her home.

Third Year, Semester 2, Week 7

A0 Print, 2 slide projector (one an automated carousel), 2 boxes, 1 light box, 3 transparencies.

First Semester, Christmas Assessment

Its that time of year again; I can't believe how fast this semester has gone by. Had an excellent time, and learnt a lot, but I wish there were a few more hours in the day! Here are some pictures of my final set up;

Two pictures from the summer, to suggest to the viewer that these images are not just straight forward family portraits.


I used to sit by my Grans bed in hospital and we'd eat Lindt chocolate truffles together. She would always give me her sweetie wrappers and ask me to put them in the bin, but I used to collect them all in my pockets.
Her bus passes and passport. One of her bus passes is still in date. I remember going with her to the post office (when I was about 10 years old) to get the application form for her passport and for her to get her picture taken.

All eight of my final Black and White images are for sale. Please contact me if you're interested! They are all printed onto Fine Art cotton Rag paper, with a 100% cotton fibre content.

Third Year, Week 7

Not had a very productive week in terms of producing new work, but managed to get lots of little, irritating jobs done and out of the way. Over the next 5 weeks or so, I'll be shooting films based on the following photographs (5x4 contact prints) and looking to conclude this area of my project in time for Christmas assessment.

Contact prints sepia toned, printed onto Ilford Warmtone FB paper;

Ilford Warmtone FB toned in Selenium (archival);
Resin coated (Jessops) paper;



Apologies for the poor quality images! Next week I'll be scanning them and editing them digitally in Photoshop, so I'll have better images soon.

3rd Year, Week One.

First week back at uni, and I promise to update this more regularly from now on, hopefully on a weekly basis.


My Gran died over the summer, and I documented the loss from the early stages of her dementia, right through to visiting her body at the undertakers and the funeral. The photographs I took will be the basis for a series of self portraits, exploring the idea of immortality, and that she lives on in all those who knew her. The second image was taken a few hours before she died.