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Ines Rae Ms Ines Rae
Role Qualifications & background Professional membership Association for Photographers in Higher Education Roles on external bodies 2007/9 Steering Committee Rogue Studios, Manchester 2005/6 Mentor at Patrick Studios, Leeds. Artists Professional Development 2004 Independent Evaluator AHRB 1998 Project Co-ordinator, Leeds City Art Gallery for Photo98 1997 Selection Panel, North West Arts Photography Awards 1997 Judge, Leeds College of Technology Photography Awards 1994/6 Management Committee, Pavilion Photography Centre, Leeds Teaching interests My main teaching and research is in the area of contemporary photographic practice. I have a particular interest in the role of women within representation. Ines contributes to the BA Media Arts programme and has also supervised students with interests in feminist art practice, class cultures and documentary photography practices. Staff serving as external examiners Research interests Trained in Fine Art, Rae’s work uses photography and text to explore representation, femininity, consumer culture and the everyday. Rae's research aims to analyse the labour of femininity in a contemporary photographic culture where this still remains largely invisible. A Real Work of Art uses a model of image-making which is largely dialogic and interactive in its involvement of participants. This piece established a lot of the groundwork for subsequent research, especially in terms of methodology. central to this is the relationship between photographer and subject. A Real Work of Art explores the business of surface appearances through portraits of women whose job it is to crete a facade. The work visually describes a number of retail sites as consisting of both consumption and production. A recent publication includes Kurl up n Dye, a monograph published by Wild Pansy Press with an introduction by Simon Grennan and incorporating photographs and typography investigating the vernacular in British high street culture. A feature on the book was recently on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour. The research has led to a number of conference papers and articles exploring the photographic image in terms of the vernacular, cultural anthropology and material culture. Research degrees awarded to supervised students Grants & contracts 2008 Sandbox Sabbatical (internal Uclan award) £7858 2007 Arts Council England £11482 2005 Arts Council England £9043 2005 Arts and Humanities Research Council, Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts £5000 2001 Arts and Humanities Research Council, Small Grants in the Creative and Performing Arts £5000 Creative practice & artistic projects
Memory City documents a series of personal memories volunteered by inhabitants of Preston and an attempt to explore the relationship between personal memory and public space. The aim is to open up a dialogue between the towns inhabitants to encourage them to claim ownership over their public space by experiencing it as a dynamic site where private memories and a public present interact. Selected memories will be interpreted into a series of images, all of which may take on a different format and investigate forms of narrative. Photography, moving image, text and oral narratives will piece together the paricularities of lived experience. Inbetween Spaces (2007), explores ideas of marginality on several billboard sites around Manchester and Salford. The bus tour explored the marginal and overlooked in the urban fabric through the rehearsed performance of a tour guide. With Simon Grennan and Alan Ward ‘Kurl up n Dye; an exploration of the vernacular in British high street culture’ Funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (£5000) and UCLan (match funding) Completed November 2006 (Lead Applicant: Rae) In Kurl up n Dye there is a nod to the motifs and pictorial strategies from which other photographers work: There is a long tradition in using photography to document and explore aspects of British popular culture and sometimes with a nostalgia for disappearing worlds. But there is a point to be made here about the stories that don’t get told, or that need a differently skewed vision. Perhaps as Diane Arbus felt when she made the image of an interior of a barber shop there is always another way of seeing a place. [1][1]
My own photograph of Sheila at New Image salon is also a picture about image–generation, her head the same size as the many collaged heads above and around her. As I spent time there watching, waiting, chatting, this picture declared itself to me; an image as much about the hair salon as waiting room than it is about the aspirational space of hairdressing possibilities, or the pressures of living up to an impossible ideal of beauty. The shop names and typefaces signal economic status,class and taste beyond the frame. The humour in the shop names is self-directed, belonging entirely to the independent trader – to the lower rent, non-corporate, “other mainstream” undertaste that laughs at the aspiring by making deprecating laughter part of the pleasure of aspiration itself. The people and places in Kurl up n Dye understand the operation of glamour’s oxymoron in their lives, making use of the knife-edge between image and reality. In 'Kurl up 'n' Dye', I think we are squarely in the sights of glamour.Or perhaps, Rae has her sights set on glamour. Either way, we seem more than anything to be looking down the barrel of a gun, which is curious, seeing as the images in ''Kurl up 'n' Dye' ' have been made within the pleasure industry,at the salon. Nobody seems to be having much fun in the peopled interiors that contribute to the work. The salon facades also appear either dreary or shabby.The conventions of documentary photography are assaulted by Rae in 'Kurl up 'n'Dye', not discarded or ignored, so that the private views, the intimate views and the set-up images still seem motivated by a desire to reveal social relationships… Simon Grennan in Kurl up n Dye 2006 With Jo Lansley, Manchester Metropolitan University ‘Settling In’ Funded by Arts Council England (£11,000) Completed April 2006 (Lead Applicant: Rae) Settling In explores ideas of home and performativity.Using a tradition of artist-led initiatives the research aimed to reassess the diversity of artistic practice funded by the Arts Council in Manchester and to introduce new artists and work to the region, particularly female practitioners. The exhibition was intended as a comment on the corporate extravaganza that is the British Art Show.
Taking home as it’s starting point Settling In explores how we move within and experience this most intimate of spaces – the home becomes a metaphor for the creative process, a locus for female activity, as well as a place of secrets and self, of rituals and routine.
Publications Books Rae, I. & Grennan, S. (2006) Kurl up n Dye, Leeds, Wild Pansy Press Chapters Rae, I. (2008) ‘Some will pay (for what others will pay to avoid): Vernacular typography and the irreverence of popular culture’ in F. Hackney, J. Glynne & V. Minton, eds, Networks of Design, Brown Walker Press Articles Rae, I. (2009) ‘Shear Class: a visual ethnography of the British hair salon’ in X-cp Streetnotes www.xcp.bfn.org/streetnotes.html
Corrin, C., Rae, I., Watson, D. (2007) Inbetween Spaces, Manchester, Look07/Redeye ISBN 978 1 901922 63 2 Lansley, J., Rae, I., Tormey, J. (2006) Settling In, Arts Council England ISBN 9781901922 65 3 Beech, D. & Rae, I. (2003) A Real Work of Art, Lancaster, Folly Gallery 2006 Kurl up n Dye, Cube, Manchester 2003 A Real Work of Art, Folly Gallery, Lancaster 1999 Remote Imago-Lucis Gallery, Porto, Portugal and Culture House, Estarreja, Portugal Sponsored by The British Council, Lisbon 1996 Ideal Home, Site Gallery, Sheffield Sponsored by CPL, Yorkshire and Humberside Arts 1994 Spaces of Difference/Memories of Place Lanchester Gallery, Coventry Sponsored by Geonex UK. Catalogue essay by Griselda Pollock 1993 Voices of Fury, Pavilion Photography Centre, Leeds
2007 Inbetween Spaces Billboard bus tour , Cube Manchester 2006 Settling In, 338 Great Western St, Manchester 2005 Mind Where You Look, Gallery Oldham 2004 Joy, International 3, Manchester 2003 Thermo 03, The Lowry, Manchester 2003 PureScreen 2 at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester 2001 Venture Year of the Artist Celebration, BBC Manchester 2000 Regional Launch of Year of the Artist, North West National Launch of Year of the Artist,The Lux, Hoxton Square 1999 Travel Bag, University Of Central Lancashire Research Centre, Preston 1997 Domus:North and South, Art Gallery Too: a nomadic artspace for NEW ART Private residencies in York and London 1995 Imagining the unimaginable, Pankhurst Centre, Manchester 1994 Indications, Impressions Gallery, York Commissioned by Impressions Reports & invited lectures 2010 Memory City; Remembering the City. MAPACA 2010, Alexandria VA. Urban Culture Panel
2009 Shear Class; an ethnographic study of the British hair salon. MAPACA , Boston. Urban Culture Panel 2008 Some will pay (for what others will pay to avoid): Vernacular typography and the irreverence of popular culture. Networks of Design, University College, Falmouth 2008 Kurl up n Dye; the vernacular in British High Street culture. The Street, University of California at Irvine 2006 Towards an Ethics of Gnerosity in Contemporary Photographic Practice. North West Art and Design Research Seminar, Liverpool John Moores University 2004 AHRB and A Real Work of Art; Practice as Research. North West Art and Design Research Seminar, Cumbria Institute of the Arts, Carlisle. Other academic activities Links http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/02/2007_20_thu.shtml |
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