About the exhibition
There's some debate about what constitutes a photographic work of art. The works I make are sometimes, but not universally, thought of as photos. It all hinges on whether you believe that a photo is created by exposing an image onto photographic paper using a light source, in which case they clearly are, or whether you think a photo necessarily involves using a camera to capture Henri Cartier-Bressson's decisive moment, in which case they clearly are not.
So it was with some delight that I was invited to participate in my first photography only show, at the highly regarded A Galerie in Paris, just north of the Musée d'Art Moderne.
Curated by Arnaud Adida, the hang included four of my pieces, alongside works by stellar photographic artists including David LaChapelle, Rankin and Elliott Erwitt.
For myself, operating somewhere inside the Venn surrounding photography, printmaking and drawing remains a rich seam to work. In many ways it makes for a wider ranging practice than any one of the three disciplines would allow for on its own, although other practitioners of each discrete art would no doubt disagree.
Work in situ
Associated works
Revolver / cerulean glaze
