Role
Critical Studies co-ordinator for BA (Hons) Photography
Member of Land/Water and the Visual Arts Research Group
Member of Peninsula Arts Galleries Programming Advisory Group
Qualifications & background
PhD Representations of the Animal through Photographic Practice, University of Sunderland
MA Photographic Studies, University of Derby
BA (Hons) English and Philosophy, University of Hull
Teaching interests
Curriculum Design and Implementation, Teaching BA (Hons) Photography, MA Photography and the Book and MA Photography and the Land, supervising two MRes students
Staff serving as external examiners
External Examining Roles
2005-10 University of Westminster, BA (Hons) Photographic Arts and BA (Hons) Photography (p/t)
2005-9 University of Renmin, Beijing, China, Foundation Degree in Digital Media
External Examining of Doctoral Candidates
PhD (current)
2011 Universityof Westminster, External Examiner for PhD candidate, YinHua Cu
PhD (completed)
2010 Universityof Plymouth, Internal Examiner for PhD candidate, Sally Waterman, Visualising the Wasteland:Exploring Processes of Self-Representation
2009 Universityof Derby, External Examiner for PhD candidate, Panos Kokkinias,
ExistentialExposures: The Manifestation of ExistentialMotifs within the Art Photograph
2006 Universityof Derby, External Examiner for PhD candidate, Anibal Nogueira de
Lemos, The Sense of aMetamorphosis of a Place
Research interests
My research centres around our relationship with nature and the land. Currently I am undertaking a photographic work about orchards in Devon which is part of a wider exploration of the effects of the Gulf Stream.
I am also creating a bookwork around my images of Iran from my field-trips between 2007 and 2009, for updates, please visit my Research Profile Web-site at the Link in the last section of this PPP...
UoP Research group membership
Centre for Media, Art & Design Research (MADr)
Land/Water and the Visual Arts
Creative practice & artistic projects
Selected Exhibitions from 2000
A Thousand Hounds in the Fall, Columbus Museum, Ohio, October 5, 2002 - January 5, 2003
A Thousand Hounds, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA. 27 April - 1 September 2002
Panel discussion (with Ralph Gibson and Keith Carter), 28 April 2002
A Thousand Hounds, A Walk with the Dogs Through the History of Photography', Paine Webber Gallery, New York City , 17 January - 29 March 2002
Reviewed in New York Post and Photo District News magazine.
For the Love of Dog, Pumphouse Gallery, Battersea Park, London
Artist’s Tour of Gallery/Review in The Guardian 13 October 2001
Publications
Ribiere, Mireille & Jan Baetens (eds), Paul Morand (translator) Time, Narrative and the Fixed Image Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi, 2001 ISBN 9042013664
Barth, Miles & Ray Merritt (eds) A Thousand Hounds Köln: Taschen Verlag, 2000 ISBN 3822862231
Pas, Johan (ed) Nature Morte Leuven Uitgeverij, 1999 ISBN 9055440523
