Things that make me go ^_^

So I’ve finally gotten around to dipping into that huge pile of postcards and business cards that’s been sitting on my desk since Free Range, and as promised I’m going to start posting about some of my favourite work from the show. First up: Peter Watkin’s series Hope of Additional Light/Now We See A Darkness.

Watkin’s website seems pretty bare at the moment, and I couldn’t find any information about this series but nevertheless I’m struck by the weird, garish beauty of these photographs. I really liked the asymmetrical hanging too. No wonder they were chosen for the University of Westminster posters.

Images © Peter Watkin.

More from the series can be seen at: http://www.peterwatkins.co.uk/

For the next couple of days at least my website is going to be a bit messy and there could be more than a few broken links littering the place. Sorry about that. I’m going through a bit of an overhaul as far as layout goes, but it’ll look better when I’m done. I promise…

This is fairly late notice but for those of you who are going to be in Liverpool over the next couple of weeks might want to check out the Up & Coming exhibition at CUC Northwest. Several prints from Fragments are being shown, along with Luke’s portraits and a whole host of other young artists and recent graduates from around the UK.

The Up & Coming website is not up and running as I type this, but I’m told it should be online soon: http://www.upandcoming.org/

More information can be found here.

Free Range was a lot of fun. It was really exciting to see the huge range of work that was on display and get the opportunity to put my pictures up at the same time. There were a handful of photographers whose work really blew me away, and I’ll be posting about them when I’m done moving house. It’s difficult to feel the inclination for anything when all my worldly possessions are scattered around several different locations in boxes. For now here’s a picture of me hanging some of Fragments.

I’m still without computer, which makes updates a bit difficult. I just wanted to write a quick post to let people know that some of Fragments will be on show at this years Free Range, so if you’re in London any time between the 19th and 23rd June come along and have a look around. The info page for Nottingham Trent can be found here.

On Saturday night my house was broken into and my computer taken. Needless to say I am thoroughly angered by the whole thing, not least because I really don’t have the spare cash to be shelling out for a replacement computer any time soon. I’ve been thinking about it quite a lot over the past couple of days since, and now all I can think is that I’m so relieved that I’d been using Time Machine to backup my files externally. The external hard drive that had my backups on it was sitting right next to my computer when it was swiped but managed to go unnoticed, probably because it’s worth comparably little to anybody except me. I hadn’t backed up for over a week but it still means that I haven’t really lost any of my work. The amount of time and grief this has saved me is amazing, so I just want to say thanks Time Machine, and next time you tell me off for not having backed up for 10 days I promise I’ll listen to you.

Don’t expect regular posting about this sort of thing, but:

It’s unlikely there will be any more posting for the next few days. My work is comfortably ahead of schedule and it looks as though we’re having a few pleasant summer days before the rain arrives again so I’m deserting my desk and going outside.

Recently I completed an interview with Ben from Planet of the Books, primarily discussing Menagerie; my motives behind the work and the processes of making it.

You can read it here:   http://www.planetofthebooks.com/culture/rachel_graves/index.html