Bolton Museum - Open Art Exhibition 2011
This week I have been notified that one of my LDC (Light Drawing Composite) pieces has been accepted by Bolton Museum for its Open Art Show.
It will be shown amongst other works, previewing Friday 18th 6:00pm and is open from 19th Nov until 7th Jan 2012.
This week I have been added to the listed local artists for the Greater Manchester Region in an online encyclopedia website ‘Manchester UK’.
I have recently created a profile for my work on the Young Tate website, which networks
various artists of different practices across the UK.
During the week commencing the 26th September, my Life Mask Portraiture piece was displayed on the front page by a admin member (image shown above).
Two large pieces of photographic art work will be displayed in a collective group exhibition, focused on analogue techniques.
All are welcome to come to OK Studios on the 8th Sept for an opening event.
See above for more details.
Following an exhibition of my B.A. Honours final degree piece at the University Of Central Lancashire Degree Festival, there was a press release published on my work. It explores the nature of my processes used to produce the work, the concepts and also some additional insights into my recent activity as an artist.
Click the link below to see the online article:
http://www.uclan.ac.uk/news/modern_day_news_presenters_in_nineteenth_century_snap_shot.php
Presented to me at the private opening of the Uclan (University Of Central Lancashire) Degree Show, my ‘Life Mask Portraiture’ piece won the ‘Creative Focus’ award.
‘Life Mask Portraiture’ will be displayed at the Free Range arts festival this year, representing the University Of Central Lancashire, alongside a group of other selected artists.
It will be open to the public from 23rd of June and closes on the 27th.
The space to see my work is Shop 14 on Brick Lane.
I hope you can make it and see the exhibit.
Food and drink will be provided on the opening night.
For more of an insight into this group show, please visit the Free Range Festival website:
http://www.free-range.org.uk/cgi-bin/exhibition.pl?yearID=16&exhibitionID=693
A panorama of the Closed exhibition space, on the opening Light Night event of Look11. My image can be seen on the far right foreground i.e. the milk carton image.
The figure on the left is Gallerist Felicity Wren, who co-curated the exhibition with a friend and runs the Domino Gallery.
My work for the Look11 International Photography Festival is now displayed on the festival’s website, along with my artist statement.
‘Insanity Help’ audio interview with me, by Christian Payne A.K.A Documentally, following the National Photography Symposium.
http://audioboo.fm/boos/357285-insanity-helps-photography-by-christopher-t-finch
From June 11th - June 19th, my final piece for the B.A. Honours Degree course I have been studying will be exhibited as part of the University Art Festival.
The image is the accumulation of months of work, which is now seeing its fruition as the Life Mask Portraiture project. This involved a collaboration with the North West News Team Presenters, working to produce an abstract style portrait.
All are welcome to come and see the finished piece. It will be shown in Gallery One, Victoria Building, University of Central Lancashire, Preston.
For more directional details, feel free to contact me via email:
cfinch116@yahoo.co.uk
With thanks to the North West News presenters for their cooperation in this project.
Closed is an exhibition hosted by the Domino Gallery and organized by an artist collective within the Look11 Festival.
It demonstrates the work of a number of different local artists from the North West if England, each uniquely commenting on the subject of consumer culture.
My work is a piece that I created when exploring the borders of the old Liverpool Docks. In this forgotten space, there is a multitude of decaying objects. One that captivated me was an old milk carton, half drunk, now all brown and covered in dirt. Whatever happened to the milk that Margaret Thatcher took from children? What happens to the produce of our great society? They can be found in the dust of a failed industrial landscape.
Free wine will be provided at the opening, please feel free to come by and see the work on display and join the conversations.
For an insight into the Look11 festival, follow the link as follows to the main page:
On the 12th of February, I took part in the first photography exhibition by the upcoming Look11 Photography Festival, held at the Threshold Art Festival in the Cultural Urban Centre of Liverpool.
I had the opportunity to display both my current project work and images from my portfolio, which generated interest among the visitors. A number of groups and individuals were fascinated by the nature of my processes, in particular the large homemade cameras, which were on display. It was a pleasure to meet people who had an appreciation of the work I was trying to produce.
One of the activities that Look11 generated, involved a red carpet like scenario were photographers would be invited to stand outside a set of double doors and await a random surprise for them to photograph. It so happened that I was asked to participate as one of the random displays. As shown in a photograph above, I pretended to go through the process of using my 20x16 pinhole camera; carrying it on my trolley, positioning it, framing and finally waiting on the clock.
Over the coming months, I will continue to participate in Look11 activities, having been assured my future involvement by coordinators following my output. It was great to dip my toe in the ocean of activities that I hope to delve into across my future career.
A short documentary on my ‘Life Mask Portraiture: Receptionists’ body of work, giving an insight into the photographic process and the later exhibition of the work in Preston.
‘Life Mask Portraiture’ - ‘Receptionists’ is a body of work that was exhibited as a one night private viewing at the Equator Cafe in Preston, tuesday 9th November.
A documentary video is in the works, showing the exhibition, along with the processes used to make the imagery itself.
For an insight into the ongoing project ‘Life Mask Portraiture’, please feel free to visit the dedicated blog page via this link:
To visit my online gallery, visit the following address:
