I work intuitively to produce images which exploit the photographic medium, as well as a given theme, to explore a point of view, or to provoke discussion or reflection.
Themes of interest to me are environmental, religions, and social. Subject matter, always the found object (as opposed to set up), is broadly interpreted: my work has been described as “extended documentary”.
Personal work is aimed mainly at the gallery space and/or publication, whilst editorial work and commissions are undertaken for more commercial projects. I work mainly in colour.
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Qualifications
HND (Dist) Documentary Photography, Newport College of Art (1991 – 93)
MA Documentary Photography, University of Wales College, Newport (1996 – 98)
Solo Exhibitions
The Forgotten Lives (1990 – touring)
Traditional Donegal Musicians (Glencolumcille, Eire)
Karmageddon (Watershed, Bristol 1994)
Madonna (Kemble Gallery, Hereford Photography Festival, 2000)
Diverse Signals (Hereford Photography Festival, 1996)
Group Exhibitions
Documentary at Newport (Photofusion, London 1993)
Touched by Light (Stoke Museum and Art Gallery, 1994 – touring)
Viewfindings Women Photographers: “Landscape and Environment” (Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, 1994 – touring)
Diverse Signals (Ffotogallery, Cardiff, 1995)
Work (Hereford Photography Festival, 1995)
Cardiff Bay Arts Trust Selection (www, 2000)
Haha Margam Revisited (The Orangery, Margam Park, Port Talbot 2002)
Publications
The Forgotten Lives (Ethnic Communities Oral History Project, 1990)
Viewfindings, Women Photographers (West Country Books, Available Light, 1994)
Wales in Our Own Image (IN BOOKS for Millenium Wales, 1999)
Haha Margam Revisited (Ffotogallery and Seren, 2002)
Masquerade (Ffotogallery for Iris, 2003)
Editorial
The Guardian, The New Statesman, Folk Roots, France, The Rambler, Elle Decoration, Practical Gardening, Gardens Illustrated.
Awards
Arts Council of Wales Travel Grant, 1995
European Capital of Culture Bursary Award
Agencies
The Photolibrary Wales, IRIS, Axis
Collaborations
SAPERE: “Philosophy for Children” 2000
Collections
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Curated Exhibitions
Projections
A Show by graduates of St. John’s Central College Cork, 2005
