Exhibition reviews : 2010-2020
Reviews of photography exhibitions or collections: sometimes the reality of photography is big, tangible, and physically dramatic, so here are reviews of space, place, and the presence of the image.
- Seeing women in Oxford’s photography scene
Sometimes conversations with photography coalesce in a place: an exhibition here, a commission there, a publication to seal the moment. For me, this has recently happened in Oxford. Earlier this… Read more: Seeing women in Oxford’s photography scene - Pastiche Mass with Mark Dean
On a Thursday in Lent, I found myself at Chelsea College of Art, in their Banqueting Hall, for an evening performance/service by Mark Dean, Pastiche Mass. Supported in his position… Read more: Pastiche Mass with Mark Dean - Good News : David LaChapelle’s photo-gospel
Catching the last days of this exhibition at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands, I went to see David LaChapelle’s Good News for Modern Man in October this year. Not… Read more: Good News : David LaChapelle’s photo-gospel - Female Photographers Al Fresco in France
A brief holiday review here, with the chance discovery of the Festival Pil’Ours in France: an outdoor, multi-site exhibition of work by ten female documentary photographers across the region of… Read more: Female Photographers Al Fresco in France - Feminist photo lines at the Pallant House Gallery
The Pallant House Gallery is showing the touring exhibition Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Artworks, until 16th September (previously at the Tate St Ives, and continuing to the… Read more: Feminist photo lines at the Pallant House Gallery - Reading between the Bible lines in Tacita Dean’s desert
It’s a commonplace to find photography and the Bible linked through particularly simple illustration: if you pick up any modern guide to the Bible, you’ll invariably find a book or… Read more: Reading between the Bible lines in Tacita Dean’s desert - The perspective of pilgrimage at the Sony World Photography Awards
Overall winner and Photographer of the Year at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards is Alys Tomlinson for her series Ex-Voto. A British winner for the first time in ten… Read more: The perspective of pilgrimage at the Sony World Photography Awards - Julia Margaret Cameron’s island outpost
2 weeks’ holiday on Hayling Island in April afforded me the first opportunity to go and visit Julia Margaret Cameron’s home on the Isle of Wight. Named Dimbola Lodge after… Read more: Julia Margaret Cameron’s island outpost
Bishop Otter Scholar : 2017-2020
Observations and reflections during my time as the Bishop Otter Scholar in Chichester, employed by the Diocese of Chichester and supported by King’s College London.
- Bishop Otter Scholar: closing thoughts
This month my position as Bishop Otter Scholar comes to an end, after 3 years… Read more: Bishop Otter Scholar: closing thoughts - Art’s generous interface on screen
Last month I considered some problems around theology on screen. I was drawn in to… Read more: Art’s generous interface on screen - Theology’s problematic interface on screen
So the unsettled feelings are percolating. Many and continued are the triumphalist pronouncements of church… Read more: Theology’s problematic interface on screen - A flurry of Frith photographs
This month I’ll be speaking at the University of Oxford’s seminar series ‘The Bible in… Read more: A flurry of Frith photographs - Future forecasts for art and religion by A+C contributors
It’s 2020. I wonder if we can start the year with clear vision. If those… Read more: Future forecasts for art and religion by A+C contributors - Christmas card reflection
This year once again I’m delighted that one of my Advent images, Joseph’s Angel, is… Read more: Christmas card reflection - Lenses on the Bible: recent article publications
2019 has been a year of article publications for me, the first fruits from completion… Read more: Lenses on the Bible: recent article publications - Sounds of a summer visual theology
On holiday in France this year, I am staying with my family in an old… Read more: Sounds of a summer visual theology - A Financial Picture of Self-employment
The recently published report (Dec 2018) from the Arts Council, Livelihoods of Visual Artists: 2016… Read more: A Financial Picture of Self-employment - Visual Theology I: Transformative Looking Between the Visual Arts and Christian Doctrine
Visual Theology Conference Report19th-20th October 2018The Bishop’s Palace, Chichester; The Chapel of the Ascension, University… Read more: Visual Theology I: Transformative Looking Between the Visual Arts and Christian Doctrine - Reading between the Bible lines in Tacita Dean’s desertIt’s a commonplace to find photography and the Bible linked through particularly simple illustration: if… Read more: Reading between the Bible lines in Tacita Dean’s desert
- The perspective of pilgrimage at the Sony World Photography AwardsOverall winner and Photographer of the Year at this year’s Sony World Photography Awards is… Read more: The perspective of pilgrimage at the Sony World Photography Awards
- Seeing church and theology in stereo
I’m continuing a blog series which is exploring more experiential ways of engaging with art… Read more: Seeing church and theology in stereo - Screening salvation: the National Gallery and YouTube
Along with the last two blog posts, I’ve found myself following a focus on digital… Read more: Screening salvation: the National Gallery and YouTube - Roots and routes of art and theology in Chichester
In my new role as the Bishop Otter Scholar for theology and the arts, I… Read more: Roots and routes of art and theology in Chichester
Trinity College A-i-R : 2014-2015
Blog about my practice when Artist in Residence at Trinity College Bristol – a college preparing those for ordination in the Church of England and Baptist churches.
- Will artists have patrons in heaven?
Maundy Thursday in Trinity College sees the finishing of my Lenten installation in the dining… Read more: Will artists have patrons in heaven? - A visual theology of the Kingdom
When I gave out 25 disposable cameras to the Trinity College community in the autumn… Read more: A visual theology of the Kingdom - I do like to be beside the seaside
In contrast to last week, this week’s focus on my practice involved the opposite of… Read more: I do like to be beside the seaside - The Kingdom behind the scenes
This week at Trinity I unveiled my recent work of 4 pieces reflecting the College’s… Read more: The Kingdom behind the scenes - Because it’s all about the space, ’bout the space…
This week, as Lent begins, I’ve taken down my visiting See from the college chapel,… Read more: Because it’s all about the space, ’bout the space… - 3 good reasons for hanging artwork in a corridor
1. Everyone’s going somewhere, so the work is given a chance to join in, and… Read more: 3 good reasons for hanging artwork in a corridor - Building rockets with no fuel
… and the cold water of rejection letters. In a week where I’ve heard that… Read more: Building rockets with no fuel - In the belly of the whale
I like the moment when Jonah goes ‘off-grid’ in the belly of the whale –… Read more: In the belly of the whale - Everyone’s in my camera club
Today I launched my residential project here at Trinity College. In the tradition of Kodak’s… Read more: Everyone’s in my camera club - Is there an eagle in this class?
A beckoning space just outside Trinity College’s library prompted an invitation from librarian Su to… Read more: Is there an eagle in this class? - Artwork has entered the building
I’m thinking about the phrase ‘making an entrance’ – I think my artwork here in… Read more: Artwork has entered the building - Artist-in-Residence comes home
My first week as Artist-in-Residence at Trinity College, Bristol has passed in a flurry of… Read more: Artist-in-Residence comes home