Simon Warner : Photographer

This CV lists my solo and group exhibitions, other film works, performances, talks, educational activities and selected publications

EDUCATION

MA Cantab. (English) 1973

Post-grad Certificate: Radio, Film & Television Studies, University of Bristol 1973

Teacher Certificate C&G 7407 2003

CAREER and EMPLOYABILITY

Artist using video, photography, performance, installation

Self-employed editorial and landscape / theatre photographer

Artist practitioner in education

FE teacher

Public & Employer’s Liability insurance

CRB Enhanced Disclosure (Kirklees Council) 2009

First Aid Certificate (7 hour Appointed Person course) 2009

GALLERY REPRESENTATION

Art Parade, Saltaire, West Yorkshire

(Director Beverley Stewart)

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers (2-screen version)

Bradford Museums & Art Galleries

Purchased 2004

Harewood estate from the terrace, photograph

Harewood House Trust

Purchased 2008

CURRENT POSTSArtist in Residence No.36 Bus, Leeds-Harewood 2009

NESTA Research Fellowship 2006-8 to study early photography in relation to the history of ideas and popular visual culture

Creative Partner with Creative Partnerships, West Yorkshire

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS

HOW Design ENgages

December 2007

Town centre projections in Howden

In Flux

2007

Film about Flux ceramics group, commissioned by Fabric for Bradford Big Screen

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Walking Out

Huddersfield Art Gallery 2009

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

Impressions Gallery, Bradford 2006

Part of Illuminate festival

A Troublesome River

Harewood House, Leeds 2005

Funded by Arts Council England, curated by Sarah Brown

Video journey down the River Wharfe using water level and aerial viewpoints

Leaving Home

Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth 2005

Commissioned by The Brontë Society with funding from Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, curated by Andrew McCarthy

High Tide

The Deep, Hull; Waterways Museum, Goole; South Square Gallery, Thornton; Design Innovation Centre, Leeds; Beverley Art Gallery; WL Delft, Netherlands 2004

Funding partners: Environment Agency, The Countryside Agency, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, WL Delft Hydraulics

Watershed

Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth 2004

Follow a Shadow

Impressions Gallery, York, December 2003 – February 2004

In collaboration with artist Geraldine Pilgrim and media production company 59

Funded by Arts Council England

The Everest Museum

2000

Sheffield Crubible Studio (foyer installation)

Airedale – A Changing Landscape

1998-9

Cliffe Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Keighley; Craven Museum, Skipton; Waterways Museum, Goole; Hull & East Riding Museum; Leeds Industrial Museum; Pendle Arts Gallery, Barrowford

Commissioned and toured by Bradford Art Galleries as part of Photo ’98

GROUP SHOWS

A Room of Words South Square Gallery, Thornton 2009-10

Video and travelling text installation

Town and Country PSL [Project Space Leeds] 2009

Transported, work in progress from 36 Bus residency

Flesh

Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford 2008

Film All Grass is Flesh

Work & Play

Terrace Gallery, Harewood 2008

Photograph

The Bradford Grid

Yorkshire Craft Centre, Bradford 2008

video installation Green City

Through the Lens 2008

video installation Wind Tunnel

RGB

December 2007

South Square Gallery, Thornton

Farbenlehre filmed lecture/performance

Keighley Open 2007

Video installation Small Blue Tree

Alchemy

2006-7

Terrace Gallery, Harewood House, Leeds, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham

Photo silhouette + performance Lavater - The Shadow of History

Arts Council England tour

The Bradford Grid

South Square Gallery, Thornton

2006

Film Some things seem to last forever, sometimes things change so fast

Shrewsbury International Open

2005

Shrewsbury Art Gallery

Film River Gauge

The Bradford Grid Inaugural exhibition

2005

Gallery II, University of Bradford

One Landscape, Many Views

2003

Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford

Commissioned by The Culture Company, curated by Nicola Stephenson

Video installationA Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

SCREENINGS

Saltaire Arts Festival 2008

Open Studio at Art Parade

Wind Tunnel

Silver Screen

River Gauge

Stepping Stone

Haworth Arts Festival 2008

Water Sign

Stir Bradford Big Screen

July 2007

In Flux Fabric commission

Silver Screen Bradford Grid

Haworth Arts Festival

September 2007

St Michael's Church

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

Liverpool Big Screen curated by Rebecca Lennon for 37 seconds

2006

River Gauge

Evolution Leeds City Art Gallery

2006

Undertow

Lumen festival of experimental films

Saison Vidéo

2006

Espace Croisé art centre, Roubaix, France

River Gauge

Haworth Arts Festival

2005

Light Quartet

Outdoor projection onto façade of Brontë Parsonage Museum

Harewood Summer Party

2005

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

Private premiere of 3-screen video installation in All Saints

Church

Testbed 3 Film Night, Leeds Met Gallery

2005

River Gauge

Interruption 2 (short films shown with improvised live soundtracks)

2005

Futuresonic Festival, Manchester

River Gauge, Undertow

Dazzle and Attract

2004

Christmas projections in Spennymoor town centre, curated by Arts UK

Winter landscape photographs

Shot by the Sea Digital Arts Festival, Hastings 2003

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

PERFORMANCES

Panorama of Rome

January 2009

Hatch, Bradford Playhouse

Interactive talk on The Panorama

The Diorama...

April 2009

Conference Instruction, Amusement & Spectacle

University of Exeter

November 2008

Old Polytechnic, Regent Street, London (Magic Lantern Society)

Performative lecture as LJM Daguerre

Farbenlehre

October 2008

Light Night, Leeds Art Gallery

Farbenlehre

September 2008

Gold Festival, Shoreditch Town Hall

Performing Magic in the Dark

April 2008, Project Space Leeds

Lecture and performative installation about photographers in fiction

An Adventure in Space & Time

February 2008

Impressions Gallery, Bradford

Lecture performance, culmination of NESTA Fellowship

Farbenlehre

November 2007

South Square Gallery, Thornton

Performed lecture, filmed for RGB

Feast of the Dead

November 2007

Halloween Ball, City of London

Lavaterian silhouette portraiture

Lavater – The Shadow of History

October 2007 Holy Trinity Church, Leeds (Light Night)

2006-7 Alchemy tour

[See Performance section of site for full list of appearances]

Phantasmagoria! The living history of the Magic Lantern

2004

York St Mary's

2 lectures/performances, part of A Light Crescendo

‘I have forced the sun to paint pictures for me’

2000

University of Sheffield

Collaboration with Judith Adams, writer and Ruth Jones, dancer

A Year of the Artist project, funded by Yorkshire Arts

TALKS

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

September 2007

Haworth Arts Festival

Lovebytes Festival

May 2007

Showroom Cinema, Sheffield

A Guide to Yorkshire Rivers

2006

Impressions Gallery, Bradford

Follow a Shadow

2003

Impressions Gallery, York

New Views of the Landscape

1998

Photo ’98 conference, Ilkley

Presentation on panoramic photography

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Exhibition catalogues

The Collecting Place 2007

Alchemy 2006

Leaving Home 2005

High Tide 2004

Follow a Shadow 2003

One Landscape, Many Views 2003

Books written

Discovering West Yorkshire Dalesman 1999

Scripts written

E. Chambré Hardman, Photographer: script for introductory video at National Trust property, 59 Rodney Street, Liverpool, 2004

Books illustrated

The Brontës at Haworth by Ann Dinsdale, Frances Lincoln 2006

Brontë Country, Lives and Landscape by Peggy Hewitt, Alan Sutton 2004

In Our Neighbourhood by Dick Downing, Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2001

An Enduring Flame by Wendy Bardsley, Smith Settle 1998

Made in Yorkshire by Maurice Colbeck, Springfield 1992

Peddars Way & Norfolk Coast Path National Trail Guide 1992

Pennine Way National Trail Guide (2 volumes) 1988

Pennine Landscapes by Simon & Judith Warner, Dalesman 1978

CINEMATOGRAPHY

Cameraman and sound recordist for Cornelia Parker's film and exhibition Brontëan Abstracts

Brontë Parsonage Museum 2006, Ikon Gallery 2007

RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS

Creating Magic in the Dark

October 2009 - March 2010

Victorian photography project with the Florence Nightingale Museum and 2 schools in Hampshire and Derbyshire, documenting the sites of Florence Nightingale's family homes

Image Lab

Jan-Feb 2009

Shelley College, Kirklees

Photographic residency with Creative Partnerships

Linfoot Harewood Summer School 2008

Camera Obscura work

HOW Design ENgages (beam)

December 2007

Filmmaking Workshops with Yr10 pupils from Howden School

Every child has a story to tell

June 2007

Creative Partnerships Bradford / East Shipley Primary Cluster

Drama / Shadow workshops with Year 3 pupils at 2 schools (with Abi Horsfield)

The Collecting Place

April 2007

2-week residency with sight-impaired young people at Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth

Linfoot Harewood Summer School

2006

Harewood House

Workshop on silhouette portraiture for A Level art students

NMPFT (now National Media Museum)

2006

Camera-free photography workshops for families

Pontefract Liquorice Festival (Faceless Company)

July 2007, 2005, 2004

Drop-in daylight photography workshops on market stall in town centre

Big Arts Week

2005

Shooting and editing 10 minute video with Yr 6 pupils at Lees Primary School, Haworth

Art Exchanges

2005

3 Sketchbooks on website www.artexchanges.org.uk deriving from workshops with KS3 pupils at Salt Grammar School, Saltaire

Art Illuminating York St Mary’s

2004

Photo-silhouette drop-in workshops accompanying the exhibition A Light Crescendo

Pinhole Visions – A journey to the origins of Photography

2004

Adult workshop at Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth

Shadow / Self

2004

Artist in Residence at South Square Centre, Thornton

Intrigue

2003

Artist in Residence at Impressions Gallery & Castle Museum, York

Heritage through a Pinhole

2003

Lead artist for pinhole photography project with Haworth and Riddlesden St Mary’s primary schools at Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth and East Riddlesden Hall (National Trust)

Quality Time

2002

Project with Wakefield Museums & Arts, facilitating photography by community groups to illustrate the Wakefield Cultural Strategy

SPARK

2002

After-school photography clubs at Castleton and Greenhill Primary Schools, Leeds