Show's over

Thank you to everyone who came down to my show at Room 237 over the past two weeks and to all o the people who helped me to put it together. I hope that you all enjoyed it and got something out of it, I would also like to thank those of you who bought my work on the opening night, the money I have made from the exhibition will go back towards making more work.
I am also planning on a small book to accompany the show, which will feature all of the images from the show plus a few extras.

If you are interested in this please leave a comment underneath.

Thanks guys and see you all at the next one!

Rob

Welcome to the Darkslide

The dust has settled and I can sort of sit back for a minute. My show is up after three days of laying it all out and then hanging it. The show features 29 framed prints that I have shot over the past four years, half of the work I shot specifically for the exhibition.

A selection of zombies from Zombie Resurrection

It took abut two weeks to frame and mount all of the prints. Some of the mounts I cut, some were cut by my wife and the largest were cut by the excellent staff at Southsea Gallery. If you've ever tried to cut photographic mounts before you'll know how frustrating it can be. You buy a large sheet of expensive mount board, measure everything out. Get the metal ruler and cutter in place, then make your cut only to realise that you 've got the blade the wrong way and the bevel is facing the opposite direction.

Shooting a time lapse of the show going up next to my print of Brotherman

The exhibition space is divided into three rooms, so I placed all the work on the floor and moved it around until I was happy with where it sat, then asked a few people to give me their opinions and tweaked the layout accordingly. I know that Richard Avedon used to have a foam board scale model of the exhibition space made up and scaled down prints that he would tack on the walls until he was happy with their arrangement. I had already done this in my head over the last two weeks before taking anything down to the space.

Exhibition cat who turned up on the first day

For the first two days I had a lot of help from Lord Lav who was a massive help both with carrying frames and keeping me sane sat underground for the first two days.
On day three the legends that are my parents came down and helped me to hang the rest of the show.
All the name plates went up a few hours before the doors opened and it all went really well. I sold 9 pieces on the opening night.

Dave White and Jon Gibbs

Johnny Griffith

Johnny and Rob

So if you are down in Southsea within the next week and a half drop in and see the show.
It's at Room 237, 76 Elm Grove Southsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire.

Promo material

Just got all of my leaflets and posters back from the printers, so I will be putting these about all over Southsea in the early part of next week, so keep your eyes peeled for them when you're on your travels.

Broken frames

The show is coming together nicely. I'm taking some of the bigger prints and their frames down to the framers today and have already started cutting the mounts for the smaller prints. So far two sheets of glass for the bigger frames have been broken, which is a cost I didn't want to pay out for, but that's life I guess. The show will run from the 2nd of August to the 14th and feature 29 framed pieces, all of which have never been exhibited before. Half of which have been shot specifically for the show.

I hope to see you there.

Shout It Out Loud

As of Wednesday it will be three weeks until the opening night of my exhibition, so I thought I would upload one of the new shots that will be included in the show.
This is a portrait of my friend and model Yasmin, shot on a Mamiya C330 using natural light at her home. Also in the show will be one of the polaroids we shot during this session.
The show will run for two weeks beginning the 2nd of August with a private view on the 1st.
Lord Lav will be DJing, so come down, see the work and meet some great people.

Welcome to the Darkslide

The clock is ticking down to my new exhibition. It has been over 4 years since my work was last exhibited, so if you're in the Southsea area during the first two weeks of August come down to Room 237 comic store and see my work first hand.

Here's Johnny

A recent portrait of screen writer Johnny Griffith.
Johnny is currently working on the script for his first feature "Ticket Inspector" and will shortly begin production on a new web comedy mini series documenting the lives of two British born Mexican wrestlers.