This blog post marks a transition point in my work. Not because I am exactly restarting work (I continued working, even increased my work rate / productivity during and after the Covid lockdown) but rather because my PhD is naturally heading into its final public phase. I am about to complete 3 /4 years working on the PhD, which followed on from an MA and before this teacher training. Prior to this, moving to Wales, meeting my wife, and a dozen years working in the photographic industry. In short, this moment in time marks a point where I can turn my attention squarely to making artwork hopefully moving my arts and teaching careers forward.

The focus of this new push will be the completion of the PhD project (which I will include on this website), and this will culminate at a final solo show at Aberystwyth School of Art in Oct / Nov 2023. The completion of this project will be a very public act – I need to go and work publicly in Liverpool with my photography, meet with various people at locations across Wales, and undertake research at Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / The National Library of Wales. I am hoping that on the back of this I can exhibit this project at other locations in Wales and on the English / Welsh borders.

There have been several offshoot projects of both the PhD and MA that over the next couple of years I hope to fully realise, and I am also looking to make public my photographic archive which I have built up without exhibiting over the last 25 years.

As a result of the above between autumn 2022 and the summer of 2024 I am looking to increase my public profile. In the next few months anyone who views this website should see content moving around. There will be a new ‘art projects’ page – with all my recent / and archived work listed, a list of my exhibitions, and more regular blog posts. There should also be new links to my social media and academic pages.

Do check back over this period and please excuse any links that do not work or content that does not look complete, such issues are likely to be temporary. I am hoping that most of the large updates should be complete by Christmas 2022.

As a start I am going to post here a couple of images for a recent (August 2022) local exhibition that I was involved with. The group exhibition ‘Art at Waunifor’ has run over the 14 years at The Waunifor Centre in south Ceredigion. This was the second time that I have been involved and I was glad to be invited back. The work I exhibited here was of local natural history / wildlife and general historical photography. For more information on the show, artists and Waunifor see: Artists – Art at Waunifor