Here are some images documenting my solo exhibition ‘What you see is what you see‘, plus some thoughts left by visitors in the comments book:

‘dividing line 2012’
Animated image / DVD

‘sandset i & ii’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted, 18″ x 12″

‘A beautiful exhibition, clean pure and spare’ …

‘inner glow i & ii’
Giclee prints, block mounted
30″ x 20″

‘heavy weather i, ii, iii, iv’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted, 18″ x 12″

‘Love the darkness’….

‘another world i, ii & iii’
Floating acrylic Giclee prints, framed 16″ x 16″

‘through the’, ‘living space’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted 30″ x 20″

‘leaf light i’
Floating acrylic Giclee print, framed 30″ x 20″

‘Excellent inspiring work.  Great food for thought’….

‘into the trees i & ii’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted
40″ x 26″

‘we’ve landed’, ‘point of view’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted
26″ x 20″

‘Pushing a new way to perceive landscape’

‘sea farm’
Projected Lightjet FujiClear print

‘Impressive, original and atmospheric’….

‘city rising i’, ‘lakeland light’, ‘up in the air’
Giclee prints, aluminium mounted, 40″ x 26″

‘A moving show’….      ’Flawlessly executed’….

‘What you see is what you see‘ – a solo exhibition of ‘quiet photography’ for the Bristol Photography Festival curated by Louise Copping.

Thursday 17th May to Sunday 27th May 2012

‘What you see is what you see‘ is a solo exhibition of my ‘quiet photography’ for the Bristol Photography Festival curated by Louise Copping.

The show at the Motorcade/FlashParade gallery will run from Thursday 17th May to Sunday 27th May (12-6pm) open on Thursday through to Sunday both weeks.

I’m continuing to experiment shooting through glass.  The rain and light on the glass really enhances the feeling of being in the Lake District – the wind, rain and the movement of the trees.

The darker evenings do have some benefits – light becomes scarce but also does some unexpected things.

As a way of keeping up-to-date with DaveMD news via facebook I’ve just created a facebook artist page.

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I was lucky enough to spend a couple of weeks working on the Ilse of Man last month.  I had some spare time to explore including an evening watching the Southern 100 bike race (pictured), fantastic but a little  scary!

I continue to explore the minimum use of colour to create create short atmospheric sequences.  The conditions on the top of Snaefell (the highest point on the island), were perfect, take a look at the images I’ve added to the Isle of Man gallery page.  You’re supposed to be able to see England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales from here!!

The REAL Bath Art Prize is part of this years Bath Fringe Visual Arts Festival (May 27 to June 12).  The deal is that once you register you get sent a random location to capture or create a piece reflecting the location.  I was given the Recycling Centre which I loved – here’s one of the images I took during my visit.

Number 40 is part of the SouthBank Arts Trail on 21+22 May in Southville+Bedminster, Bristol – always a brilliant weekend. As well as my own work the exhibition includes six other Bristol artists: Ruth Broadway (drawing); Hannah Hickman (photography); Stuart Low (glass and painting); Paul Brown (illustration); Hannah Broadway (illustration); and Steve Broadway (photography).

For more information: Number 40 @Southbank Arts Trail

Following March’s Rural Idyll 2 residency the resulting exhibition takes place every weekend throughout June 2011 between 11-5 at: Little Dodnash Farm, Bergholt Rd, Bentley, Suffolk IP9 2DQ.

Following the weeks residency I created two groups of work to be shown at the farm throughout June:

‘WOOD WORKINGS’
A constant theme of my work is the human interaction with landscape.  Whilst walking the woodlands that surround Little Dodnash Farm I became increasingly in awe of the trees, and fascinated by the process through which they are managed.  ‘Wood Workings’ documents the human relationship with the woodlands, and ultimately reflects on how; through domestic occupation and husbandry we leave a transitory mark on this environment.

See Gallery – Wood Workings for images from the collection.

’5 WORDS – SHADOWS ON A RURAL IDYLL’

Responding to the question – ‘give me 5 words that describe your feelings about living in a Rural Idyll’, the owner of Little Dodnash farm replied:

Solitude, Panic, Pleasure, Hardwork and Comfort.

’5 Words – shadows on a rural idyll’ uses these words as inspiration for a series of shadow based photo-ascetates constructed and photographed   at the farm during the residency in March. Through the use of Real-time graphical programming the photographs have subsequently been transformed into five animations (one for each word) and shown as a site-specific installation in the farms wood cutting yard.

It should be noted that although the inspiration for the piece sprang from the owner’s feelings about living in a rural idyll, its creation and ultimate presentation are based on my own responses to spending time at Little Dodnash Farm.  My main aim was to produce a piece that creates unity and provides equal weight to all five words, so giving us an insight into reality behind living in a Rural Idyll.

illuminate Longest Night

Just wrapping up my work on last December’s illuminate Longest Night, event, which kept me busy for the later part of 2010. Through illuminate I produce arts-based events that promote and reflect both the creativity and rich history of the area of South Bristol.  By engaging all communities illuminates aim is to generate interest and regeneration in the area.

Through using shop windows and disused properties to show work by nationally renowned Bristol based artists, illuminate hope to achieve two outcomes; i) to break down the barrier of getting people into traditional art galleries and ii) to give Bristol artists the opportunity to show in their home town.

ʻThe Longest Nightʼ built on the successful format of the illuminate ʻSpring Forwardʼ event by expanding into a five-day festive event that transform the lower end of North St into a festive spectacle with a series of shop windows created by Green Ginger, Kathy Hinde, Nathan Hughes, Luke Jerram and Joe Magee, plus a gallery/exhibition space and external projections by Ulf Pederson.

The event is thought to have been a great success – a community celebration to brighten up the winter nights that despite the sub-zero conditions was enjoyed by all…

BV Studios is having its first Open Studios next month. The converted 30,000 square foot warehouse in Bedminster, Bristol houses around 80 artists (including myself) who work in a variety of media.

I’m in an upstairs Studio – number M3, so please come along and say hello.  I’ll have some  new work as well the odd bargain for sale.

Opening times:
Friday 19th November: 6pm – 9pm (party continues/drinks served till late)

Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st: 11am – 6pm

Free Entry, Food available throughout the event from Katie & Kim’s Kitchen. Teas and coffees from Daisy Rollo of CoffeeArabica available Saturday and Sunday.

Here’s a copy of my image ‘walk on water’ that won the public vote and prize at the recent phone-ography exhibition at Photographique’s Photo Gallery

You can see the results of some of my recent iphone experiments in the  Phone-ography exhibition at:

The Photo Gallery, Photographique  31 Baldwin Street
Bristol BS1 1RG

The exhibition runs from 2-20 October 2010.

This is the first open submission exhibition run by The Photo Gallery.

I’ve just returned from a two week holiday in Turkey. Gokceovacik is near the town of Gocek on the Aegean coast of Turkey. It’s a beautiful location up in the mountains which thankfully was slightly cooler than the crazy temperatures down on the coast – 35 degrees which is far too hot for me. I spent a fair amount of time thinking about and then photographing the ‘olive pickers house’ which was next door to where we stayed. The colours, location and atmosphere captured my imagination and I hope to print and exhibit a series of photographs at some point in the future.

An overhaul of my site is long overdue.  I’ve spent the last month not only upgrading the WordPress code and the theme, but cataloguing my work.  The intention is to bring my my images and blog closer together.  More sets of images will appear over the next month and the site itself will evolve over the same period.