Contemporary Group members Touring Exhibitions - page one

The Exhibitions listed here on the RPS Contemporary Group website are framed and ready for tour, subject to their availability. They can often be booked at short notice and could be used to fill cancellations.

We can arrange delivery of the exhibitions and individual photographers are often happy to be involved with the hanging and taking down of the work.

It is also possible to offer accompanying workshops in some cases, where photographers are prepared to discuss their work or to demonstrate techniques.

Although there is no fee for the hire of the exhibitions, a contribution towards transportation would be very much appreciated. Please contact the Secretary in the first instance if you wish to make enquiries about hiring any of the exhibitions.

Secretary: Jenny Ford MA ARPS email: jennyford2000@yahoo.co.uk

 

 

'Still Life Revisited' exhibition

Venues are now being sought to display this latest RPS Contemporary Group exhibition. A 60 page booklet of the photos selected by John Blakemore and Cary Welling for the exhibition is also available. A4 size, 46 mono and 28 colour photos, many at full page size.
For Exhibition details please Contact Ray Spence: rspence@warkscol.ac.uk
 

Andy Biggs LRPS

‘Where the Landscape Begins: Travels Around Iceland’
Iceland is a country where the landscape is continually changing. These photographs show the dramatic and spectacular aspects as well as man’s influence on it. Here much of the landscape is still untouched, human life exists at it’s edge.
24 black and white images (18 20”x16” and 6 12”x14” frames

 

 

Jennifer Gough-Cooper

‘Kirstenbosch’

Black and white photographs all taken within the perimeters of this famous botanic garden situated on the lower slopes of Table Mountain, Cape Town. There are images of dramatically lit mountain vistas showing the extraordinary setting of the garden, compositions of contrasting plant forms and textures and close-ups of sculptural plants and trees. The unique flora of the Cape is a constant surprise for the European eye. Illustrated catalogue and set of 8 postcards available.
Up to 30 black and white photographs (24”x20” frames 

 

 

Carol Hudson FRPS

‘Stilled Lives’ considers the transformation that occurs when a commonplace and overlooked object (such as a dead bird) becomes the subject of photographic attention. These images evoke a range of emotions to sadness to humour and offer a gentle invitation to consider our attitudes to mortality.
20 black and white images (20”x16” frames

 

‘The Crystal Lattice’

Images of flowers and plants that seem to merge and emerge out of nothingness. The flowers for this series were photographed in ways that would not only encourage observation of ordinary garden plants, but also draw attention to the photographic surface itself. In these exquisitely delicate high key images of flowers and plants, reflections and layers of opacity are used as elements of the image itself.
18 black and white images (20”x16” frames)

Carol Hudson FRPS is the Chair of the RPS Contemporary Group Distinctions Panel and is currently teaching within the field of photographic education.

 

 

Virginia Khuri FRPS

‘Macchu Picchu’

“Then up the ladder of the earth I climbed
through the barbed jungle’s thickets
until I reached you Macchu Picchu.
. . . tall city of stepped stone
. . . Ultimate geometry, book of stone.”
Pablo Neruda

Macchu Picchu, a hymn to Pacha Mamma, Mother Nature, was composed of living stone by people with a mystical sense of the sacred of which all nature partakes - mountains, river, springs, rocks. The place exists as a vehicle of communication between man and the cosmos. Macchu Picchu was built with endless patience and a profound spiritual reverence for their working material, the stone itself.
37 black and white images

 

 

Keith Launchbury FRPS

‘Enigmatic Stones’

From Dartmoor to the Orkneys, Keith has travelled extensively to photograph over one hundred Neolithic and Bronze Age megaliths. The monochrome images made convey an open mind as to the original purpose of these Ancient sites. This is an exhibition that can be varied in size to suit the particular exhibition space. The images are also appropriate for combing with other forms of presentation of the subject.
Up to 110 monochrome prints in pine and/or ash (50cm x 40cm) and (60cm x 50cm) frames)

‘From Bardsea to Skinburness’

This exhibition draws from a collection of more than 150 monochrome images exploring subjects surviving beyond their own time to become visual enigmas in the present. Keith views the one hundred miles of Cumbrian coastline, from Bardsea to Skinburness, as quietly absurd and quirky. This perceived nature is further emphasised by the presentation of the images in pairs.
Up to 70 monochrome prints in ash (60cm x 50cm) frames.

‘Remnants’

A distinctive feature of the Isle of Lewis landscape is the extent to which it’s own historical record is so visible, slowly decaying, for artists to ‘discover’ in their own medium. This exhibition of monochrome prints portrays a Hebridean island which seems to slow time, a landscape of bleak beauty and one very much it’s own nature.
Up to 50 monochrome prints in ash (60cm x 50cm) frames.

All work from these exhibitions are subtly toned in selenium and, in being archivally processed on fibre based paper, would have a long life expectancy for collectors in the medium.
 

 

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