Brown Monkey - Exhibitions & Events
Review on "Picturing the modern Exhibition" - From "shots at modernity"
DAVID DIMBLEBY recently painted ‘A Picture of Britain' for the BBC. It was one replete with Turner's violent skies and Constable's bucolic landscapes, taking in some of the nation's most popular and enduring images – with its focus set firmly in the past. "A rather different, but hardly less evocative, picture emerges in a remarkable new collection of photographs by postgraduate students at De Montfort University.
Picturing the Modern is an exhibition comprising the work of 12 recent graduates of the MA course in Photography. It captures some striking aspects of the UK in 2005 – though few that are likely to make it on to chocolate boxes any time soon.".
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Previous Exhibitions
Picturing the Modern
Group Show
Freuds, Oxford , UK
Sept 2005
The City Gallery, Leicester, UK
Jan 2006
Extreme: A Trans-Mongolian Adventure
Open Exhibition Based on the “Extreme” Theme
The Study Gallery, Poole, UK
Nov – Dec 2006
Macabre Thoughts of Future Mortality
Group Show
De Monfort University End of Year Show, Leicester UK
May 2005
Dorset Art Weeks
Young Artist Group Open Studio Show, Mixed Media
Two exhibits: Natural playlight and Response: Reappropriate
The Study Gallery, Poole, UK
June 2004
A Global 24hrs
Curated by myself, a Group show as part of the Biennial Poole Photography Festival
The Peacock Gallery, Poole, UK
April - May 2004
Café Blu, Bournemouth, UK
(Additional Work)
May 2004
Previous Exhibitions
Perspectives
MA Students show as part of the Biennial Poole Photography Festival
The Study Gallery, Poole UK
April - May 2004
Human Remains
Group Open Show
Jelly Legg’d Gallery, Reading UK
June – July 2003
Off the Colour
Solo Show
Café Blu, Bournemouth UK
April 2002
Britain In the 21st Century
Channel Four national Exhibition, Online Gallery @ Channel4.com
Summer 2000
Urban Decay
Group Show
De Monfort University End of Year Show, Leicester UK
May 1999
Reviews
Review on "Picturing the modern Exhibition" and the work of the Postgrad course students - From Hero Website
"An exhibition produced by students of the Master of Arts (MA) degree in Photography at De Montfort University begins a tour of the country this month with unique insights into modern British life, from the persistent popularity of the white wedding to the demise of the prefab house.
The 12 postgraduate students come from a variety of backgrounds and locations, with some living as far away from the Leicester-based University as Lancashire, Bournemouth and Gloucester. They all study under Prof Paul Hill MBE, renowned national photographer and former photojournalist.
The photographs reflect the diversity of ages, backgrounds, experience and geographical locations of the students. For some, the concern has been an exploration of how they came to be the people they are and who or what had influence on this. For others, the interest lay in their experience of contemporary society.
There are images of uncertain landscapes, of vulnerable bodies, premonitions and symbols of death, of beautiful eternal forms, street fashions and of the balance of power between the photographer and the photographed".
Foreward - Picturing the Modern catalogue by John Blakemore
"An M.A. course in photography is, it seems inevitably, a hybrid creature, attracting students of diverse ages, and of extremely varied experience and understanding of what photography is, or might become.
The medium has also undergine a period of radical interrogation and change, both of the means of production available to the image-maker, and of the theoretical and institutional context(s) in which work is made and understood. One should perhaps speak not of Photography but of Photographies to reflect more precisely the diversity of contemporary practices.
As always the work shown here reflects that diversity. The result of two years of questioning, of a sometimes anguished re-appraisal, of the attempt both to understand and to do it, has richness and complexity, demonstrates the students willingness to address personal issues, and to question and rework traditional genres.
To explore what ‘Picturing the Modern’ might mea".