Creating Balance

For the past 6 months my feet have barely touched the ground. Earlier on in the year I was invited to take part in a project curated by Claire Sambrook of Strong Island in conjunction with Anglepoise.
The project would see 10 artists paired up with 10 photographers to create one image that would become a poster. The iconic lamp didn't have to directly feature in the image as the wide range of styles applied to the 10 posters would all be linked by the common theme 'creating balance'. This was a great opportunity to work on something where we could experiment and play around with lots of different ideas, coupled with the input from each respective artist.

The artist/s I partnered up with were husband and wife Barry & Roo Abrook who share a mutual love for skateboarding, screen printing, taxidermy and victoriana along with myself.
The final image has now been handed in and will be on show alongside the other posters in the window of Liberty's of London. Claire will be holding a talk on the project at the V&A museum, the project will also be a part of The Icons Design Trail and all of the work will be on show at The Aspex Gallery in Gunwharf Quays, Portsmouth.

I would like to say a huge thank you to Claire and to Anglepoise for involving me in this project and can't wait to see all of the work come together.

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.

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.

Special Delivery!

Freshly delivered this morning.
These are the largest prints for the show measuring in at 20 x 30 Inches each.
The show will feature a wide range of portraits i've shot over the past 4 years including my work on Zombie Resurrection. I hope you can make it down.

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Dead exciting news

Exhibition update. Due to popular demand my exhibition will now feature work from Zombie Resurrection.
This will be the first time any of these images have been on show in the UK, a small selection of images were shown briefly in Guernsey last year.

Prints from the exhibition will also be on sale.

So put down your copy of 50 Shades of Grey and i'll see you on the 1st of August

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.

You're scared of Room 237, ain't ya?

I've been measuring up the space at Room 237 Comic Store in Southsea for my upcoming exhibition at the end of July.
Here's a sneak peak at some of the new pieces of work that will be on show.
Remember to keep the date in your diary and I will send out more info nearer the time.

Polaroids

Had a busy day on Friday, I shot windsurfer Chris Murray and Strong Island's Paul Gonella for a new exhibition i'm working on. Thanks to Johnny G for arranging one of the shoots and to Chris and Paul for giving up their time.

Quiet Corners

My entry to the Quiet Corners Print Here competition has been posted on their blog. 
If you would like to vote for it please click here


Thanks :-)