curriculm vitae
Whilst studying Psychology / Sociology, I worked as an intern research assistant in the Metropolitan Police Forensic Science Laboratories for the Offender Profiling Research Unit, exploring the relationship between environments and human behaviour. After completing Social Work training, as a Probation Officer I became interested in photography through friends and later turned to it as another way of exploring and understanding the places in which we live.
Alongside my own work exploring constructed environments, I have developed a participatory arts practice and am commissioned to create pictures and use the tools of photography to work with communities, exploring the places where people live their lives, helping people to find a new relationship with the physical space that surrounds them.
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in education:
1992 B.Sc. Applied Psychology / Sociology
1994 M.A. Social Work Practice
2009 Fd.A. Contemporary Photography
on show:
"Bookfair Weekend" (group/event) Impressions Gallery, Bradford UK (October 2009)
“Facing the Future” (group) Elysium Gallery, Swansea UK (July - August 2009)
“EditionOne” (group) CUBE (Centre for the Urban Built Environment), Manchester UK (June 2009)
Forthcoming Exhibitions:
"PIY", Maison d'Art Bernard Anthonioz, Paris (Sept 2010)
"urban notebooks" at Photolounge, Old Truman Brewery, London (Oct 2010)
awards:
ShotUpNorth SunRise award for emerging photography talent in UK northern regions
shotupnorth.co.uk
Shots Directory 2010 young photographers competition finalist
www.shots.net
in print:
Walsall: Interrogation handbook by Anna Francis, published by Multistory (2010)
palermo: a notebook self published artists book (2009)
warsaw: a notebook self published artists book (2009)
The Dwellings by Kim Wiltshire, published by Lime (2008)
Tea-LC Manchester Art Gallery, project documentation (2006)
on the world-wide-web:
tout va très bien
"urban notebooks" (august 2010)
http://toutvatresbien.com
centrepoint collective
"urban notebooks" (feb 2010)
http://centrepointcollective.blogspot.com
world famous design junkies
"barren warsaw" (dec 2009)
http://worldfamousdesignjunkies.com/photography/barren-warsaw/
1000words magazine blog
“warsaw: a notebook” (july 2009)
http://1000wordsphotographymagazine.blogspot.com
northerneye
http://www.northerneye.org
in person:
National Photography Symposium - 2009 (June 20-21) Chethams Library, Manchester UK “warsaw: a notebook. urban wandering and everyday life”
with communities:
"St Mark's Estate, Ladywood" photographic series, postcards and artist book marking 40 years of everyday life and place-making on St Mark's Housing Estate, Birmingham, UK. (in progress)
[Supported by: Urban Living, Arts Council England // Management: Multistory]
"Interrogation: Walsall" a series of events bringing artists and the public together exploring the role of arts and culture in the post-industrial world, with lead artist Anna Francis. (September 2009)
[Supported by: The New Art Gallery Walsall, Arts Council England, Walsall Council // Management: Longhouse]
“Identity” exhibition prints of portraits, and work produced through workshops by users of social care services, exploring their lives and places that mean most to them. (April 2009)
[Supported by: Manchester City Council // Management: Graeme Vaughan]
“The Dwellings” with writer, Kim Wiltshire & residents of Victoria Square in Manchester, to create a book on its social history, as the oldest municipal housing scheme in the UK. (December 2008)
[Supported by: Arts Council England & Manchester City Council // Management: Lime]