TWENTY
Hereford Museum and Art Gallery
Broad Street, Hereford, HR4 9AU
Friday 22nd October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: Tuesday to Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
The Hereford Photography Festival has been bringing photography and photographers to rural Herefordshire for twenty years.
Hereford has welcomed photography with a generosity and enthusiasm only exceeded by that of the many photographers who have been involved along the way. Hereford Photography Festival, until recently, was the only annual photography festival in the UK. It has always had a documentary flavour, although has never consciously adopted that title.
Much of the work in TWENTY might be situated at the axis of looking out and looking in; photographers who are not only interested in how the world looks when photographed but conscious of their place within it. Many of the locations shown here are the photographers’ home towns and cities.
The selection of twenty photographers for a celebratory exhibition was a challenge. It would have been easy to choose twenty household names, or the most fashionable photographers, but not without ignoring those elements of the festival that have remained democratic from the start. Equally, I had no stomach for curating an exhibition that chronicled the journey of the festival - with the participants’ names getting progressively more recognisable and the work increasingly contemporary - as the festival evolved. In order to avoid such a mistake we are exhibiting primarily recent work.
Hereford Photography Festival has always been a photographers’ project; started by enthusiasts and sustained by artists happy to see their work reach new audiences outside of predictable city spaces.
It has maintained an open submission show alongside the curated exhibitions, with many of those photographers invited back in subsequent years. It is perhaps fitting then, that a photographer - and not a curator - has selected the work for this exhibition.
Many of the photographers were at the start of their careers when they first exhibited in Hereford and the exhibition is a genuine reflection of that full twenty-year period.
Paul Seawright
Photographer and co-curator TWENTY
OPEN HERE
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts,
Edgar Street, Hereford, HR4 9JR Friday 29th October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times:
Monday to Saturday 10am - 8pm
Sunday 11am - 2:30pm
OPEN HERE is Hereford Photography Festival’s open submission exhibition. From over 200 applicants, just 23 photographers were selected. The exhibited work represents some of the newest, most exciting work being made in the UK and internationally.
The selection panel included guest judges Paul Seawright (photographer and co-curator TWENTY), Melissa DeWitt (editor of HotShoe magazine) and Stuart Whipps (photographer and winner of East International prize 2009) alongside Caitlin Griffiths (Artistic Director of Hereford Photography Festival) and Nina Gustavsson (Hereford College of Arts).
One photographer will be awarded a £2,000 commission to make new work for exhibition in next year’s festival. The winner will be announced on Friday 29th October.
Visitors to OPEN HERE can vote for their favourite photographer. The photographer with the most votes at the end of the exhibition will be awarded The Public’s Prize of £200.
EVENT:
People’s choice – OPEN HERE
Friday 26th November
The Courtyard Centre for the Arts
FREE
THE HEREFORD
Tessa Bunney, Steve Brown
and W.H. Bustin
Hereford Cathedral
Cathedral Close, Hereford, HR12NG
Friday 29th October – Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: 9:15am – evensong daily
(Monday – Saturday 5:30pm, Sundays 3:30pm)
“My father was buried wearing his Hereford tie.” Hereford Cattle, known by stockmen worldwide as ‘The Hereford’, are a symbol of Hereford and an important part of local, rural industry.
Hereford Photography Festival commissioned documentary photographer Tessa Bunney to uncover the love for and history of this icon. Bunney visited cattle breeders and their families to record their lives and excavate archives, as well as visiting county shows and working with the Hereford Cattle Society and artist Steve Brown. Her work draws attention to details which often go forgotten or unnoticed and aims to contribute to the ongoing debate about the changing nature of rural life.
Delving into breeders’ own family archives Bunney discovered beautiful family albums and scrapbooks of cuttings; barn walls ‘wallpapered’ with show certificates dating back over a hundred years; childhood sketches of cattle drawn by a future famous breeder of Herefords; and a list of all the bulls’ names for that year written on the back of an envelope.
She dusted off long abandoned husbandry tools with intriguing names such as ‘Tattooing Forceps’ and ‘Little Mother Feeders’ and discovered vast collections of photographs by local photographers Bustin, Hammond, Pitt and Beard, that chart the fashion in cattle and livestock photography, lying in boxes and bags.
Common Land artist Steve Brown travelled to farms across the county, meeting breeders and their families. He photographed some of the present day show animals and his images focus on The Hereford in its natural farm environment. An exhibition of both artists’ work was shown at the Haven Farm in Dilwyn to delegates of the 2010 Hereford European conference earlier this year. Several original images by photographer W.H. Bustin - on loan from Hereford Cattle Society - will be on display in the Cathedral alongside this exhibition.
Tessa and Steve would like to thank the Hereford Cattle Society and the Hereford Cattle farmers without whose assistance this work would not have been possible.
HCA Graduate Prize
Applestore Gallery
3 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DF
Friday 29th October – Saturday 27th
November 2010
Opening times: Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 4pm
Two photographers from Hereford College of Arts’ Photography degree show were awarded commissions to develop new work for the festival. The festival has a long-standing relationship with HCA and recognises the importance of supporting early-career practitioners and retaining creative professionals in the region.
With the support of The Applestore Gallery and photographer Sam Hughes, Osborne and Dimastro have created images that investigate a particular sense of place.
Dimastro creates abstract landscapes - as mediated
and manipulated through the technology of her camera and lens - in order to re-interpret the familiar. Osborne is interested in lonely spaces: purpose-built buildings - cinemas and hospitals - are visited only when closed or derelict and devoid of their intended occupants.
Sam Hughes is a photographer whose work investigates perceptible and imperceptible shifts in natural landscapes. Hughes says ‘from the transition of light on water to the movement of the earth’s rock strata the constant changes are fascinating, enigmatic and elusive.’
A former student of Hereford College of Arts, Hughes was Acting Chair of Hereford Photography Festival from 1991 – 1992. He has exhibited in the UK and throughout Europe.
EVENT
In Conversation
Sam Hughes in conversation with Katie Osborne & Michelle Dimastro
Saturday 6th November 2010,
2pm
Applestore Gallery
3 Bridge Street, Hereford, HR4 9DF
FREE
Hereford Photography Festival works in partnership with public, education and community sectors to create new, temporary, site-specific art commissions.
Artists engage with groups through workshop programmes, creating a critical-practice context for their work and developing exhibitions and events for the festival’s programme.
‘Common Land seeks to identify itself in a test-bed of changing criteria; changing because all things are ever in flux and the current economic and global climate encourage us to consider things differently and faster. This must surely include asking questions about the production of art; why and in what context.'
Sally Payen MA RCA PhD
ThePoint4
The Royal National College for the Blind, Venns Lane, Hereford,
HR1 1DT
Friday 29th October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: Monday to Friday 7am -10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am - 5pm
Vision Links,
36 Widemarsh Street, Hereford HR4 9EP
Friday 29th October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: Tuesday to Friday 9:30am -1pm
Halo Leisure,
Hereford Leisure Pool, St Martins Avenue, Hereford, HR2 7RQ
Friday 29th October – Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening Times: Monday to Friday 8am - 9pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am - 4pm
An HPF common land commission and partnership project with the Royal National College for the Blind, the project aims to challenge stereotypes and to celebrate the English B1 Football Team in the 2010 Blind World Cup Championship held at ThePoint4, Hereford in August 2010.
Lead artist Becky Matthews worked closely with visually impaired students at the Royal National College, incorporating their experience and knowledge into the development of her commission. A series of portraits were made of members of the B1 English Football Team in their homes and places of work.
A partnership project with the Royal National College for the Blind, the project aims to challenge stereotypes and to celebrate the English B1 Football Team in the 2010 Blind World Cup Championship held at ThePoint4, Hereford in August 2010.
Through the engagement process additional creative work was made. Blind student Brett Smeed’s idea for light boxes and black pigment created visually-readable and touch-readable (through heat) images.
An extension of Focus Here -in partnership with Halo Leisure, Herefordshire Sport and Herefordshire Council Becky Matthews worked with Hereford College of Arts Photography Degree students Kirsty Pye and Harriet Stanley to celebrate the achievements of athletes from across the county.
Together they visited paralympic and other elite athletes to create new photographic work. The exhibition is displayed in the corridor leading to Hereford Leisure Pool café and changing rooms.
Sights Unseen
ThePoint4
The Royal National College for the Blind, Venns Lane, Hereford,
HR1 1DT
Friday 29th October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: Monday to Friday 7am -10:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 9am - 5pm
A PhotoVoice exhibition that celebrates the possibilities of photography, a medium traditionally regarded as the domain of sighted people. It sets out to challenge our conventional understanding of visual communication and what it means to ‘see’.
This show is the culmination of photography workshops held with blind and visually impaired participants between November 2008 and December 2009 in China, Mexico and London. The photographers use senses in addition to and other than sight to create images; hearing to judge distance, touch and smell to discover subjects.
The images shown have in many cases been created without the use of sight, and do not require sight to be enjoyed and understood. The focus is less on the image itself but on what it demonstrates; a momentary experience or thought process, and the emotions it inspired in the photographer at the time.
Whether the photograph is experienced through sight, through hearing a description, or through touch using a tactile diagram, the photograph still fulfils its purpose by carrying that frozen moment across any distance and time period, to be described, explained and shared by others.
Through the use of audio and tactile diagrams this exhibition is accessible to all and furthers our awareness of the relationships between vision, blindness, sensory experience and imagery.
By showing that photography can be created - and enjoyed - by those without sight, the exhibition aims to build a bridge between the sighted and non sighted worlds. For the blind and visually impaired this is a chance to discover the potential of photography as a form of expression and communication, and for the fully sighted it is an opportunity to explore an illuminating alternative way to engage with the world.
For more information on the project and PhotoVoice:
www.photovoice.org
info@photovoice.org / 020 7033 3878
A partnership between PhotoVoice and Sight of Emotion. www.sightofemotion.org
MOVE
Hereford College of Arts
Folly Lane, Hereford, HR11LT
Friday 29th October - Friday 26th November 2010
Opening times: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
The Kindle Centre,
ASDA Supermarket, Belmont Road, Hereford, HR2 7JE
Opening times:
Friday 29th October 4pm to 7pm
Friday 5th November 5pm to 9pm
Friday 12th November 10am to 2pm
Thursday 18th November 2pm to 4pm
Friday 26th November 1:30pm to 5:30pm
Sally Payen was lead artist in a multi-disciplined art project with young people from SWAG, the South Wye Arts Group. The project began with an experimental engaged process using photography, film and drawing and led to further work with dancer Lauren Glendinning from Attitude Dance Company.
The project explored poetic relationships between the young people and the environment of the youth club, considering issues of identity and social and democratic spaces along the way.
HEREFORD FC
Hereford College of Arts
Folly Lane, Hereford, HR11LT
Friday 29th October - Friday 26th November 2010
Opening times: Monday to Friday 9am – 5pm
Anna Falcini was commissioned by HPF to produce work about the Hereford Bulls.
Falcini used archive material from the club engaging with the pupils of St Thomas Cantilupe school and St Davids Pupil Referral canter to create work that was exhibited at the schools. The project, together with Falcini's own photographs of the club is part of the Common Land exhibition at Hereford College of Arts.
NEXT NATURE
iNTERTEXT Gallery
7 South Street, Leominster, HR6 8JA
Friday 22nd October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: Friday & Saturday 10am-4pm
The rising of a next nature, which is wild and unpredictable as ever. Curated by Sally Payen, Next Nature is part of iNTERTEXT’s program of international artists’ critical practice installations, that began with Uncivilisation at The Dark Mountain Project Festival in Llangollen in May this year.
This exhibition explores the duality between the idealised nature we dream about and the changing nature brought about by humankind’s interference. The Dark Mountain Project started with a manifesto - written by Paul Kingsnorth and Dougald Hine - calling for new stories by which to navigate the transition of climate change.
The exhibition will be open on Fridays and Saturdays during the festival.
A Herfordshire Council Windows into Art project.
Cyriak
Jaime Jackson
James Winnett
Paul Evans
Morag Colquhoun
Susan Bowman
Ken Grant
Stuart Whipps
Buttermarket
High Town, Hereford, HR1 2AA
Friday 29th October - Saturday 27th November 2010
Opening times: Monday to Saturday
10am – 5pm
In 2009, Ken Grant and Stuart Whipps were commissioned
by The Elmley Foundation and Hereford Futures to respond to the anticipated – and actual – redevelopment of the livestock market and wider area.
Ken Grant
Grant’s images are part of the on-going response, due to cease with the completion of building projects in 2014. Over the next 4 years Grant will continue to photograph the people of Hereford. Will they remain the same as the spaces they occupy change?
Ken Grant began making work about his contemporaries
in Liverpool in the mid 1980s. He has exhibited internationally and has work held in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Folkwang Museum, Essen.
Stuart Whipps - Ugly New Words
Whipps’ completed series - of photographs and supporting works - explores the legacy of the Hereford Ring Road, constructed in the most recent redevelopment
of the city, in 1968. The title of the work - a quote from a 1968 edition of the Hereford Times refers to ‘pedestrianisation’ and ‘de-motorisation’ the buzzwords of the time.
Stuart Whipps is an artist based in Birmingham. His practice is concerned with the aftermath of shift and change - physical, economic, social or other – and deals with the impact of these shifts on identities. He has exhibited extensively in the UK and in Europe and was the recipient of The Observer Hodge award in 2006 and the East International Award in 2009.
Al Vandenberg
Beth Yarnelle Edwards
Dave West
Jackie Nickerson
Jodi Bieber
John Bulmer
Liza Dracup
Martin Parr
Michael Danner
Paul Hill
Paul Shambroom
Pieter Hugo
Rankin
Robert Ashby
Roger Ballen
Shelby Lee Adams
Simon Norfolk
Tessa Bunney
Wang Qingsong
IMAGES: LEFT TO RIGHT, TOP TO BOTTOM
1. Alicja Dobrucka I like you I like you a lot, 2009
2. Zhao Renhui The Institute of Critical Zoologists, 2010
3. Andrew Buurman Behold 5, 2009
4. Åsa Johannesson The Swing, 2010
5. Alys Tomlinson Issy, Hedgehog Community, 2009
6. Becky Matthews & Clare Struthers My Big Fat Ugandan Wedding, 2009
7. Clare Park Ursula’s Blanket - Distribution Of Possessions, 2010
8. Evi Lemberger Im See schwimmegegangen, 2010
9. Fergus Jordan Unknown territory, Belfast, 2010
10. Heather McDonough Kitchen, 2009
11. J Carrier Anata Road, Occupied Palestinian territory, 2009.
12. Jason Larkin Past Perfect – Museum 11, 2009
13. Kate Peters Renata & Eli, Ridley Road Portrait Project, 2009
14. Ken Finegan Tír na nÓg 2, 2010
15. Luke Woods Untitled, 2010
16. Marc McAndrews Michael Perin, 2009
17. Laura Pannack Graham – teenage anorexic, 2009
18. Vincent Mundy Bessarabia 2, 2010
19. Noh Sang Ik His 2nd operation, 2009
20. Spencer Murphy Kurt And Jara, Tasmania, 2010
21. Toby Coulson Phillip, 2009
22. Vicky Hodgson Michelle 60 - From ‘Exposing the Void’, 2010
Top: Tessa Bunney - Tenbury Show
Bottom: Steve Brown - Running Cows
EVENT
Tessa Bunney
Photographer’s talk
Saturday 30th October 2010
12noon-1pm
Hereford College of Arts
Follty Lane, Hereford, HR11LT
FREE
Katie Osborne, Michelle Dimastro and Sam Hughes
EVENT
CHANGING CLIMATES
Hereford Photography Festival seminar
What does creative engagement and the role of photography mean in our changing economic and cultural climate? Are artists documenters of the change? Are they part of it ? Will they direct the change and how will it be resourced?
ThePoint4
The Royal National College for the Blind. Venns Lane, Hereford, HR1 1DT.
Thursday 25th November
1:30pm - 5pm
Tickets £6: £4:50 concessions
For tickets call 01432 340555 or book online at www.courtyard.org.uk
Stephen Snoddy, Director of New Art Gallery
Walsall and Look 2011- a new international
festival of photography in Liverpool - will present CHANGING CLIMATES and chair a discussion with a panel of national artists and curators.
Becky Matthews: Focus Here Dan English
Bretton Smeed: Tactile LightBox
Becky Matthews: Focus Here Nicola-Goodwin
Sally Payen: Video still
Anna Falcini: Football Club
video installation stills Susan Bowman
Bottom: Stuart Whipps - Yellow