This CV lists my solo and group exhibitions, film works, performances, talks, educational activities and selected publications
EDUCATION & TRAINING
NESTA Research Fellowship 2006-8
Teacher Certificate C&G 7407 2003
Post-grad Certificate: Radio, Film & Television Studies, University of Bristol 1973
MA Cantab. (English) 1973
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) 2010
First Aid Certificate (7 hour Appointed Person course) 2009
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
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
Confluence
Environmental art project with North Devon Biosphere Reserve, Beaford Arts and i-Dat, working on the river Torridge and its estuary, 2011-12
The Arts of Place
Public art programme for Bradford city centre celebrating the City Park development. Included my multi-format installation and performanceSeven Streams
October 2010, commissioned by Beam
The Lady with the Lamp
Short film for Florence Nightingale Museum, London, shot at Dalton Mills, Keighley 2010
HOW Design ENgages
Town centre projections in Howden, commissioned by Beam
December 2007
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
The Arts of Place, Bradford, October 2010
Programme of public art works including my video installation and research project Seven Streams
21, Harewood House 2010
Video Archery Border in exhibition to mark 21 years of Terrace Gallery
A Room of Words South Square Gallery, Thornton 2009
Video and travelling text installation
Town and Country PSL [Project Space Leeds] 2009
Transported, installation and video showing as 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
Keighley Arts Factory 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
Holmfirth Arts Festival 2011
Undertow
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 & LIVE APPEARANCES
The Excursion – filming Wordsworthian motifs in the contemporary landscape
Paper to Royal Geographical Society conference, London, August 2011
Photo-silhouette portrait demonstration and workshop
V&A Friday Late (Shadow Catchers)
October 2010
Seven Streams
Illustrated performative lecture with an actor and musician
Court Room, Bradford City Hall (part of The Arts of Place)
October 2010
Isolating V5: Towards a Human Zoetrope
Performative lecture
Old Media / New Work – Obsolete Technologies and Contemporary Art conference
University of Westminster/Magic Lantern Society
May 2010
Isolating V5: Towards a Human Zoetrope
Hybrid Art & Science exhibition and performances
Sheffield Institute of Arts
February 2010
Lavaterian Silhouette Workshop
V&A Friday Late, Renaissance Masked Ball
January 2010
Panorama of Rome
South Square Gallery, Thornton (part of A Room of Words)
January 2010
Lavater – The Shadow of History
Part of Professor Pepper's Ghost lecture series
Old Polytechnic, Regent Street, London (Magic Lantern Society/University of Westminster)
November 2009
Transported
Mystery Tour using a 36 Bus, visiting sites between Leeds and Harrogate, Sept 2009
Performative event presented as part of residency at PSL [Project Space Leeds] and Harewood House
The Diorama...
Conference Instruction, Amusement & Spectacle, University of Exeter
April 2009
Panorama of Rome
Hatch, Bradford Playhouse
Interactive talk on The Panorama
January 2009
The Diorama...
November 2008
Professor Pepper's Ghost lecture series
Old Polytechnic, Regent Street, London (Magic Lantern Society/University of Westminster)
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
Holmfirth Arts Festival
June 2011
Back Lane Art Space
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
RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS
Silhouette Portrait Workshop
Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth, August 2011
Landscapes on a Plate
February 2011
Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, University of Leeds
Talk, walk and craft workshop on landscape aesthetics
One Square Mile
November 2010
Leading urban photography walk around Bradford as part of international project with Impressions Gallery/Visiting Arts and Iranian photographer Gohar Dashti
Magic Lantern Workshop
August 2010
Family workshop at Florence Nightingale Museum, creating lantern slides with glass paints and viewing them through a Victorian projector
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
Transported
Artist in residence on 36 Bus between Leeds and Harewood
PSL [Project Space Leeds] and Harewood House with Transdev Harrogate & District
2009-10
Reducing our Carbon Footprint
Colne Primet High School
Cyanotype posters produced for Creative Partnerships project
June 2009
Image Lab
Jan-Feb 2009
Shelley College, Kirklees
Photographic residency with Creative Partnerships
Silhouette Portraiture holiday workshop
July 2008
Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool
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 Welcome to Robin Wood 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
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