Category: Exhibition
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#574 – Now Open – The Industrial Tourist Exhibition at Peak District Lead Mining Museum
My Industrial Tourist exhibition is now open at the Peak District Lead Mining Museum in Matlock Bath. This is my usual mix of mills, mines, steelworks and a dash of transport thrown in (although I’m beginning to think that I will remove those if I have another exhibition). Compared to the last showing of this…
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#571 – My Next Exhibition – The Industrial Tourist at Peak District Lead Mining Museum, Matlock Bath
I’m delighted to announce my next exhibition will be at the marvelous Peak District Lead Mining Museum in Matlock Bath. It will open on Sunday 6th September 2020 and run until 12th October 2020. It will contain my usual eclectic mix of industrial landscapes and urban exploration from across the North – mills, mines, steelworks…
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#546 – Bernd and Hilla Becher’s Industrial Visions at The National Museum, Cardiff
I try to go to a few photographic exhibitions a year, normally in the North of England. But when I heard that The National Museum in Cardiff were exhibiting work by Bernd and Hilla Becher, I started to make plans for a trip as their work is rarely exhibited in the U.K. As an added…
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#538 – The Industrial Tourist exhibition – now open at Astley Hall, Chorley.
Further to my previous post, the Industrial Tourist opened at Astley Hall on Saturday and all the hard work has paid off! Rory from the Astley Hall staff and myself (but mainly Rory) put all the frames up on Friday and I had a small opening for family and friends on Saturday. Well, I call…
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#537- My next exhibition – The Industrial Tourist at Astley Hall, Chorley
I am pleased to announce that my next photographic exhibition will open on 16th November in Astley Hall in my adopted home town of Chorley. As usual this will be my usual Monochrome photographs of mongy old mills, derelict mines, beached ships and various other industrial artefacts that litter the northern landscape. It opens at…
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#496 – Denis Thorpe’s ‘A View From The North Exhibition’ and book
Cammell Laird’s 1988 I recently had the huge privilege of meeting Denis Thorpe at the opening of his ‘A View From The North Exhibition’ at Stockport Memorial Art Gallery. I’ve been a fan since seeing his exhibition at the Lowry a few years back and my copy of his book ‘On Home Ground’ is well thumbed.…
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#483 – Millscapes Exhibition Preparation 4
One thing I’ve only really touched on in my previous posts is image selection. I mentioned in my first post that I had a much smaller body of work to choose from than previous exhibitions due to the exhibition covering just two mills. And although Bailey Mill remains one of my favourite explores from a…
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#482 – Millscapes Exhibition Preparation 3
OK, so it’s been a while since I posted on this, but I’ve been very busy with other stuff, so let’s pick it up again. Layout I’d previously visited the museum and measured the gallery space. What I always do when laying out any portfolio, book or exhibition, is to get a load of small…
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#480 – Millscapes Exhibition Preparation 2
Due to the quantity of mounts involved, I decided that cutting my own would take too long (it’s a laborious task) , so I decided to buy pre-cut mounts. I meant to order single mounts but as I was in a hurry to order them (during a 5 minute lunch break between meetings….) I ended…
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#479 – Millscapes exhibition preparation
A few of the prints I’ll be mounting and framing this weekend and over the next week….. So there’s a couple of weeks to go before I set up the Millscapes exhibition at Saddleworth Museum, and I thought I’d do a post on the preparation. Unlike my previous exhibitions, this one contains photographs from just…
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#478 – My next exhibition – ‘Millscapes’ at Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery
I’m excited to announce that my next exhibition is at the lovely Saddleworth Museum and Art Gallery, opening on the 11th November and running until the 4th December. Unlike my previous exhibitions, this exhibition will be a display of the photographs I took of two Saddleworth mills – Bailey and Wellington – in 2007. Wellington…
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#429 – Grafters Exhibition at People’s History Museum
On over the summer at the People’s History Museum in Manchester is a new exhibition, Grafters. The subtitle is ‘Industrial Society in Image and Word’ and it is curated by Ian Beesley with some accompanying poems by Ian MacMillan (who has previously provided poems for some of Beesley’s books). The exhibition is split into 8 distinct…
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#406 – Shadows of the North Exhibition opens at Queen Street Mill, Burnley
I am pleased to announce that my Shadows of the North exhibition has moved to Queen Street Mill Textile Museum in Burnley, the last steam powered weaving shed in the world. This is the same exhibition that was up at Helmshore earlier this year, but reduced to 15 photographs due to space constraints. If I’m…
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#396 – Shadows of the North at Helmshore extended for another week!
As there are no plans for using the Hub area of Helmshore Mills for the week commencing 2nd March, I have agreed with the museum to extend the exhibtion by one week. The final day is now 8th March 2015.
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#394 – Photographs from Helmshore Exhibition!
Finally – a few snaps from my Shadows of the North exhibition at Helmshore Mills Textile Museum. It’s not the biggest exhibition you’ll see, and on reflection it would have been nice to have had an extra display board to space things out a bit but they only own two. I’m working on bringing it…
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#393 – Shadows of the North Exhibition at Helmshore Textile Museum opens Monday!
The pictures have been delivered to the museum and are now on the wall, and everything is ready to go! The exhibition will run over the Lancashire half term period, and opens Monday 16th February. It is located in the room between the two mills (rather than the giant exhibiton space on the top floor…
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#384 – Next exhibition – Shadows of the North at Helmshore Mills Textile Museum UPDATED WITH NEW DATE
I am pleased to announce that my next exhibition will open on Monday 22nd 16th February 2015 at Helmshore Mills Textile Museum in Helmshore, near Rossendale in Lancashire. Shadows of the North is a complement to my Mechanical Landscapes exhibition and focuses on the textile mills of the north of England. It will be slightly larger…
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#376 – Mechanical Landscapes Exhibition moves to Bolton
Through my membership of the Lancashire Monochrome group, I have been invited to display the Mechanical Landscapes exhibition to the clubs permanent gallery space at the Bolton Mercure hotel on the A6 near West Houghton (also known as the Georgian House). This is fundamentally the same exhibition as that at Ebb and Flo in Chorley, except that…
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Facebook Event for Mechanical Landscapes
https://www.facebook.com/events/635693669871777/ Diane at Ebb and Flo Bookshop has kindly created a Facebook event for my little exhibition. It’s an ongoing event rather than a one off thing, so the ‘join’ aspect is rendered a tad superfluous, but if you are a Facebook user, feel free to join or share or whatever to help spread the…
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#359 – Mechanical Landscapes Gallery Exhibition Now Open!
After too many late nights and a lot of blood sweat and tears, my first exhibition opened today at my local independent bookshop, the delightful Ebb and Flo in Chorley. It’s only 12 framed A3 photographs, but the exhibition space is somewhat small and probably couldn’t take many more, so I’ve gone for quality…
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