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OXFORD PHOTOGRAPHERS
Oxfordshire Artweeks 2021 Exhibition Catalogue
Bruce Clarke ∙ Mark Crean ∙ John Duncan ∙ Hermeet Gill
Darrell Godliman ∙ Alexander Gordón ∙ Heywood Hadfield ∙ Jamal Ibrahim ∙ Philip King
Karen Morecroft ∙ Howard Stanbury ∙ Judith Taylor ∙ Philip Wood
1 - 23 May 2021
Online
www.artweeks.org/festival/2021/oxford-photographers
www.flickr.com/photos/oxfordphotographers/galleries
OXFORD PHOTOGRAPHERS
Oxfordshire Artweeks 2021
Virtual Exhibition
1 - 23 May 2021
Oxford Photographers present a group exhibition for the sixth year running in
Artweeks, covering a range of photographic genres from architecture and
landscape to wildlife and street photography. The online exhibition will run
throughout the festival in May 2021.
Participating photographers this year are
Bruce Clarke ∙ Mark Crean ∙ John Duncan ∙ Hermeet Gill ∙ Darrell Godliman
Alexander Gordón ∙ Heywood Hadfield ∙ Jamal Ibrahim ∙ Philip King
Karen Morecroft ∙ Howard Stanbury ∙ Judith Taylor ∙ Philip Wood
Members of the group have participated in a number of local photographic
exhibitions, including those at Wolfson College, the North Wall Gallery in
Summertown, Chipping Norton Theatre Gallery, the Link Gallery at the JR Hospital,
St Matthew's Grandpont, Zappi's Café, the Harcourt Arboretum, the Botanic
Garden, and The Jam Factory.
The virtual exhibition is available to view by visiting each photographer's gallery.
These galleries are collected together at www.flickr.com/photos/
oxfordphotographers/galleries, and there is a link to each photographer’s gallery
on their page in this catalogue.
BRUCE CLARKE
Elemental
I
Visit Gallery mainly shoot editing of Raw files is just
landscapes, motivated as important as the initial
Contact by the light and weather, capture. Powerful software
bongboots@yahoo.co.uk and try to capture the feel tools allow the limitations
of a place as I remember of current digital cameras
flickr.com/photos/bruce-
clarke it. These images are to be minimised, helping
mostly recent, ranging to capture my impression
across the seasons, often of place.
emphasising one
element. For me, careful
MARK CREAN
Entropias
I
Visit Gallery am a fine arts and events I am showing here some autobiography and
photographer who lives in work in progress on a project metaphor in the terms used
Oxfordshire. The focus of called Entropias which is by the photographer Robert
Contact my current practice is the about the influence of man Adams. Often in modern
mcrean@snowpetrel.net impact of man on the over the centuries on the culture we no longer see
Mark Crean Photography environment and how this is small parcel of nine or ten land as home and part of a
expressed in the role of square miles in Oxfordshire whole of which we are only
‘place’ in contemporary where I live. Like most of one element. What we see
culture. I am currently modern Britain, this is almost instead is a commodity, a
studying for an MA in entirely a human-created consumable, a scene. We
Photography at Falmouth landscape. Entropias is a have become strangers in a
University. blend of geography, strange land.
JOHN DUNCAN
Improvisations in red
Visit Gallery Not a river, but vibrant submitted images which relatively unnoticed into the
splashes - life from the dark. have all been taken under more abstract forms and
M
the year-long shadow of colours which you see here.
Contact uch of my COVID-19. Throughout this
Jmcdd1@iCloud.com recent work has time I have been ‘Colour is joy. One does not
flickr.com/photos/jmcdd experimented preoccupied with the detail think joy. One is carried by it.’
with the I’ve discovered in the Ernst Haas.
unpredictable confined space of our
abstract patterns which garden. Strong morning light
longer photographic and a selective focus have
exposures can produce. For transformed what was
this exhibition I have previously familiar and
HERMEET GILL
Things I want to touch
H
Visit Gallery ermeet Gill is an Things I Want to Touch is
Oxford-based simply a celebration of
Contact photographer, nature.
hermeet.gill@gmail.com artist and writer whose
work is driven by a wide-
flickr.com/people/
hermeetgill/ ranging curiosity and
characterised by a
constant desire for
experimentation and
exploration.
DARRELL GODLIMAN
Through a glass, darkly
I
Visit Gallery t was only recently that I therefore to have an obscure during my adventures in
discovered that the glass or imperfect vision of reality. photography. For this series
referred to in this phrase, This series of nine images the focus is towards the more
Contact attributed to the Apostle Paul, abstract and fractured
should be considered a
dg-photos@hotmail.com is actually a 'looking glass' or celebration of those reflections rather than the
www.dgphotos.co.uk mirror. At the time of writing imperfections, indeed the strictly representational. Many
such a mirror would have resulting reflections can often were taken whilst combining
comprised of nothing more be more beautiful than the my main interests of travel and
than a shiny metal surface and original objects which in some architecture but such images
as a result the viewed object cases are quite mundane. can be found everywhere if
would have been rendered you look for them.
Reflections are a subject that I
dark and distorted. To see
have constantly returned to
“through a glass, darkly” is
ALEXANDER GORDÓN
Quomodo sedet sola civitas
T
Visit Gallery his series of accommodate, whilst in
photographs, whilst in other cases the only human
technique very similar presences are artificial ones
Contact to his previous work, is that variously resist, mock, or
apvgordon@gmail.com brought together particularly otherwise confront the
www.flickr.com/apvg to illustrate human absence surreality of the reality.
in the urban landscape over
the last year: windows of Alexander Gordón is an
unpeopled shops create amateur photographer
visual juxtapositions of based in London and
buildings whilst devoid of Oxford.
the people they are meant to
HEYWOOD HADFIELD
Flowers
H
Visit Gallery eywood Hadfield is an Flickr pages. Nowadays he using only a very basic,
amateur photographer enjoys exploring a rapidly usually backlit, lighting set-
who has been taking changing Oxford, recording up.
Contact photos for his own the shapes and patterns in
heywoodhadfield@hotmail.com amusement since the 1980s. the every-day environment
www.flickr.com/photos/ His work has taken him to around us.
72759726@N00/ several interesting places
around the world and he has The photos in his Artweeks
attempted to capture some 2021 gallery are of flowers
of these experiences taken over a period of some
photographically, some of twenty years and an attempt
which can be found on his to create interesting images
JAMAL IBRAHIM
Material expression
Visit Gallery Jamal Ibrahim seems to be macropaintography’, a Remember - it is household
saying , ‘Simplicity technique he innovated in fluids and materials on glass
underlying complexity 2010. He applies household with backlight. It is not
Contact underlying simplicity’ is what materials of varying degrees 'digital-art'. The imagery is a
jam1306a@hotmail.com we see every time we view a of transparency, translucency nod to his love of what all
Material expression site photograph or painting and opacity to glass, usually those abstract and surrealist
intended for display. with an image in mind, painters were trying to tell us
In the gallery nine macro producing flat constructs all those years ago. They are
photographs, showcase ranging from identifiable of places and spaces, in
Jamal Ibrahim's 'optical- named shapes to the Jamal's words, not out
materialism completely abstract- 'there', but in 'here'.
expressionist in intent.PHILIP KING
Suffolk horizons
S
Visit Gallery uffolk is a lovely mix of split between Oxford and captured portrait photos of
rural and urban. The Ipswich. people exercising outside
photos in this small I normally enjoy taking my house in Ipswich. The
Contact collection were taken either photos in this Suffolk
photos of people and events
philip@ in Ipswich or along the - documentary-style Horizons collection are a
philipkingphotography.co.uk Suffolk coast, particularly at photography - capturing the little different - mainly Suffolk
philipkingphotography.co.uk Stutton on the Stour estuary. story of an event or of an landscapes – showing some
They were mainly taken in artist at work, for example, of the scenic parts of the
2019, when I was based at from the small details to the county.
Stutton for a month, and big picture. During the
during the time since then Covid lock-down I've
when my location has beenKAREN MORECROFT
Views under lockdown
U
Visit Gallery sually I photograph visiting on my daily exercise,
vast, open and often I have returned with my
windswept landscapes camera to document the
Contact that I visit once a year and changes over a period of
hello@karenmorecroft.com then never again. My several months as new life
www.karenmorecroft.com selection for this year's emerges.
Artweeks is quite the
opposite. Focusing on small
details, in particular one
single tree in the community
woodland area close to my
home that I have beenHOWARD STANBURY
Homelands
I
Visit Gallery n recent years I have been Of course 2020 has been the and has exhibited in
fortunate enough to call on year of pandemic and the Oxfordshire Artweeks since
recent holidays to supply a horizons have tightened 2014.
Contact theme or story for my somewhat, and Homelands
howard@stanbury.org Artweeks exhibitions: is my theme this year. A little Featured photo: Lockdown
www.flickr.com/stanbury bit closer to home. Gothic
• Dismaland
• Postcards from Dreichness
Howard Stanbury is an
• Southwest US landscapes
Oxford-based photographer
• Japan
with interests in landscape,
• I ❤ Arles documentary and
community photography,JUDITH A. TAYLOR
Glass light
J
Visit Gallery udith Taylor is an objects - jars, glasses, and a
amateur black-and- bowl.
white photographer
Contact specialising in Judith Taylor’s photographs
jat49@photojtaylor.com minimalist abstract can be viewed at flickr.com/
fineartmonophotography.net photography. The 6 images photos/jat180914 as well as
exhibited here are from a fineartmonophotography.net
lockdown project (‘Glass
light’) and are all in-camera
multiple exposures of
different household glassPHILIP WOOD
Locked down
D
Visit Gallery uring lockdown my Many of the shots taken on (and because I’m rather
photographic my perambulations how partial to B&W).
opportunities have aspects of this strange life –
Contact largely been confined to my some deliberately, but most Perhaps the strangest aspect
phil@burrell-wood.org.uk daily dog walks. When I incidentally. The choice of is the lack of images showing
flickr.com/photos/ looked through my recent this small selection of urban friends and family. Odd
159370870@N02 work one theme stood out – images is inspired by the times indeed.
the impact of life limited by experience of these strange
laws and rules that would times – in monochrome
have seemed unimaginable because life lost a lot of
before the news of a new colour during the past year
virus reached these shores.OXFORD PHOTOGRAPHERS Oxford Photographers is a welcoming and informal group of local photographers who meet socially once or twice a month in and around Oxford. In these lockdown times we have moved from pubs and cafés to the Internet. Please contact us at oxfordphotographers@gmail.com if you would like to join the next event. Regular announcements appear on the group’s Oxford Flickr page, at flickr.com/ groups/oxford-uk/. Reach us there or via E-mail oxfordphotographers@gmail.com Instagram @oxfordphotographers Twitter @OxPhotographers Facebook @OxfordFlickr
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