Print Auction Catalogue

FOUR DEGREES WESTPHOTOGRAPHIC PRINT AUCTION

09.12.14hosted at

The Lounge Function Room

Bidding begins at7PM

Bar Avaliable

Welcome to the 2014 Photographic print auction.

Each year undergraduate students on our BA HonoursPhotography programme devote their time and energ y to planning and organising this exciting event, held to raise funds for the exhibition of their work at Free Range in London.This is a student-led initiative, an integral part of the curriculum designed to develop and challenge our students’ personal and professional skills. This year our passionate and determined cohort have worked hard to obtain valuable prints and signed books from a diverse range of practitioners, including renowned photographers such as Patrick Ford and Sian Davey. Tonight you will see, and have the opportunity to buy, a selection of high-quality photography and we hope you will be keen to bid and support our students’ efforts. Our thanks go to all of the generous supporters and contributors who have made this evening possible, including the Treasury Bar for kindly agreeing to host the event and provide hospitality.And, thanks to you for attending tonight, your support is greatly appreciated.

Tim GundryProgramme Leader, BA (Hons) PhotographyPlymouth College of Art

RAISING FUNDS FOR

Free Range Showat

Truman Brewery, Brick LaneLondon

18.06.2015 - 23.06.2015

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Handling and CollectionPlease be ready to transport your lot from the auction on the evening, suitable packaging will be provided.If unable to do so then you will have 10 days tocollect from Plymouth College of Art - details will be given to you via email, phone or on the night as to how to collect and when.If you wish the lot to be posted to you then there is a £10 postage fee.

Absentee BidsThese must be received at least 24 hours before the auction begins. We will confirm all bids via email, if you have not received a confirmation within 1 business day then please [email protected]

Conditions of SaleThis auction is subject to Important Notices, Conditions of Sale and to reserves. Buyers are recommended to inspect the property themselves.

PaymentPayments are payable on the night.Cash, cheque and card payments can be taken.

Schedule

6:00pm - Registering

7:00pm - Bidding commencesLots 1 - 12

7:30pm - Interval with Entertainment

7:45pm - Lots 13-24

8:20pm - Interval with Raffle

8:35pm - Lots 25-41

9:00pm - Bidding finishes

SizesAll sizes featured in this catalogue are in inches.

AUCTION LOTS

Patrick Ford started his career as the in house photographer for MTV and VH1. He has gone on to become a renowned portrait photographer working with the likes of Kate Moss and Green Day.

Patrick FordMultiple Lots

Lot # 1Print‘Kate Moss 3’20x16

www.patrickford.net

Lot # 2Print‘Eminem’20x20

Lot # 3Print‘Kate Moss’12x18

Tony Cobley is a full time professional commercial photographer based near Plymouth, Devon. He specialises in corporate photography, advertising photography and promotional images for business, education, industry & leisure in the South West.

Tony CobleyLot # 4

Mounted Print18x14

www.tonycobley.com

Sian DaveyLot # 5

Print13x10

Sian Davey is a photographer based in the South West of England. Sian’s background is in Fine Art and Social Policy. Her professional work is in psychotherapy.Sian is currently studying for an MA in photography at Plymouth University with Jem Southam and David Chandler. She has recieved many accolades and awards. The most recent being shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing award 2015.

The image available is taken from the series The River documenting the peopleenjoying the abandance of sun on the river Dart in the summer of 2013.

www.siandavey.com

Ann BusterMultiple Lots

Ann Buster is a Polish born rock/music photographer. Travelling the world with bands such as Asking Alexandria, Korn, Motionless in White and Suicide Silence. She is about to head to the US to join Asking Alexandria on their next tour.

The band featured in the lots is Asking Alexandria.

Left: Lot # 612x16FUJI EZ Pearl

Right:Lot # 712x16FUJI EZ Pearl

Lot # 812x16FUJI EZ Pearl

Lot # 912x16FUJI EZ Pearl www.annbuster.com

Robin MaddockLot # 10

Robin Maddock is an English photographer, based in London and San Francisco and he describes himself as a “social documentary photographer … for now”. He’s published two books – Our Kids Are Going to Hell (Trolley, 2009), and God Forgotten Face (Trolley, 2012).He has an MA in Photographic Studies at the University of Westminster and he says that not only is photography a means of expression and a way of making sense of the world but that it can “connect us to the past and help us think differently about the future”.Amongst other honours he’s been nominated for the Deutsche Börse Award in 2010 and selected by Martin Parr as one of the ‘rising stars of photography’ for the Smithsonian Institute: “Maddock’s views and snatches of life are both surreal and individual. He has the enviable ability to turn nothing much into something quite profound.”

www.robinmaddock.com

Tim GundryLot # 11

Tim Gundry is Programme Leader for HE Photography at Plymouth College of Art. An experienced commercial photographer, Tim also maintains an active personal practice concerned with the social and cultural history of the South West. Part of a body of personal work exploring landscape and memory, this image was published and exhibited in the Landscape Photographer of the Year Awards in 2008.

www.timgundry.com

Andy FordMultiple Lots


Based in the South West photographer Andy Ford’s images serve as a means of exploring contemporary culture and his physical environment, forming a conduit for his passions, fears & opinions. This manifested itself in his early photographic work based in Cornwall where he documented British surf culture & investigated the rugged landscapes of the North Atlantic Coastline. After part-time study in Truro, Ford embarked on his first major body of work, an exploration of the underground music scene across the South West with a series of images that sought to express the raw energy of the live experience. This distinctive music & subculture work has lead to a flourishing career in the music industry, he regularly works for prominent music publication the NME as well as a number of other domestic & international publications. In his personal work Ford continues to create personal bodies of stark landscape & portraiture work which balance his commercial endeavours.

www.andyfordphotography.co.uk


Simon GomeryLot # 14

Print‘Paul Heaton’(signed)10x8

Simon Gomery has produced photographs for some of the most talented contemporary craft artists in the South West of England. These artists have used the images that he has made, to enter and win competitions and to support their portfolios when presenting to galleries. His fine art practice is based around the environment, he is fusing his interests in photography, water, movement and music to produce photographs that have harmony, movement and show the beauty of water. He is do this using both Nikon digital technology and using a film pinhole camera.

www.photographiesimongomery.carbonmade.com

Lorna YabsleyLot # 15

Lorna has worked at the ‘high end’ of the photographic industry for over twenty-five years. Coming into the business at an early age from an arts background, she learnt her craft working alongside some of Britains leading photographers.

Leaving London and relocating to her native Devon she established her studio; dispelling the tired and staid image of social photography, she pioneered the reportage approach in her bridal work and applied her clean, graphic eye to the commercial field ... her unique style has been widely emulated.

Founder and principal photographer of bangwallop, Lorna and her highly skilled creative team, have established a unique and exciting photographic company.

www.lornayabsley.com

Print.Giclee Print on fine art paper.12x16

Matt ElliotLot # 16

Print12x16FUJI EZ Pearl

Plymouth based artist with a strong interest in documentary/contemporary photography. Previously he has had his work shown in the Telegraph, Western Morning News and at present is covering Plymouth Raiders and concerts at Plymouth Pavilions. Although he sees himself as a diverse practitioner he often uses the camera to express emotion and mood through landscapes. ‘’I don’t like to pin myself down to any particular style or genre, I don’t believe everything I do has to be justified. Sometimes it’s more about taking some time out to produce a piece of work to represent how I’m feeling.’’

www.mrephotography.4ormat.com

Colin PriorLot # 17

Colin Prior is known as one of the UK’s most respected photographers. Born in Glasgow, his proximity to the Scottish Highlands shaped his passion for the outdoors and fostered his interest in photography. His photographs capture sublime moments of light and land, which are the result of meticulous planning and preparation and often take years to achieve. Prior is a photographer who seeks out patterns in the landscape and the hidden links between reality and the imagination.

Commissioned by British Airways for four years, he has travelled to over forty countries throughout the world and lived alone for extended periods of time in the wild just to understand his subject. Colin currently lives in Glasgow where he runs his own publishing business and works on a variety of corporate commissions. Over the past six years he has shared his knowledge through a series of photographic workshops both in Scotland and overseas. He is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society, a founding member of the International League of Conservation Photographers.

www.colinprior.co.uk

Venetia DeardenLots # 18 & 192 copies avaliable

Booksize6x8

Venetia is a photographer and filmmaker whose close observations of friends and family relations have garnered considerable exposure since the publication of Somerset Stories, Five Penny Dreams in 2008. Her photographs often oscillate between the intimacies of friendship and kinship ties on the one hand and the wider landscape on the other, serving to contextualise her subjects and asking the viewer to reflect on the way of life in the places she moves through. Her published books, Somerset Stories, Five Penny Dreams 2004 - 2008, Glastonbury Another Stage, 2003 - 2009 and and her subsequent Eight Days -2010 project continue to be shown internationally.

The book Glastonbury another stage documents the people of Glastonbury Festival between 2003-2009.

www.venetiadearden.com

Martina RooneyLot # 20

Martina Rooney’s recent practice explores and investigates themes of cultural change, patriotism, religion, and economic decline in 21st Century America. In addition to her photography practice Matrina is also the context of practice lecturer at Plymouth College of Art.

Jem SouthamLot # 21

Jem Southam is a British artist concerned with nature’s life cycles, and this interest has informed his over twenty-five year career as a landscape photographer. Southam focuses on subtle changes in the British countryside through a meticulous process of recording a singular environment on numerous occasions over an extensive period of time. One of his techniques is to layer and contrast different images in order to bring the evolution of the landscape to the forefront. Southam says that his “overall artistic intentions are to make work that explores how our history, our memory, and our systems of knowledge combine to influence our responses to the places we inhabit, visit, create, and dream of.”

Isaac LenkiewiczLot # 22

Isaac Lenkiewicz is an illustrator and comic artist currently living in the South West of England. He spends most of his time drawing things. A lot of giants, moon men and creatures that lived hundreds of millions of years ago pop up in his work. He self publishes a lot of his own comics and he’s always working on new characters and stories. If he didn’t draw for a living, he would like to be a pet detective. Some other things he’s really into are playing old video games, reading comics, watching cartoons, natural history and nachos.

www.isaaclenkiewicz.tumblr.com

PrintTwo Colour Risograph12x16

Chris SmithLot # 23

Chris Smith is currently the course Leader for National Diploma Photography at Plymouth College of Art, where he has taught for the last 5 years.

“I am fascinated with Nature and ‘the environment’; hence my photography is often an appreciation of nature, sometimes a study of the relationships between society and nature, and always a chance for me to explore my own relationship with ‘the environment’. I have, in various ways, been an active environmentalist over the years. I am currently investigating the environmental impacts of photography, as well as keeping a very personal photographic nature diary, entitled ‘Postcards from the Hedge’.”

www.chrissmithphotography.net

Codie HobbsLot # 24

Print10x12

Codie Hobbs (BA HONS) is a photographer specialising in fashion and portraiture.

Featured in British Journal of photography, BBC Wales, Devon Life Magazine, Noctis Magazine Blog, Lost Freedom Magazine & CT Magazine

www.codie-hobbs-photography.com

Sean PowerMultiple Lots

Lot # 25Print12x16FUJI EZ Pearl

Sean Power is a freelance photographer based in Nairobi, Kenya. He entered into the photography world at a late age after his path crossed with a writer and photographer from The Times who were embedded with his Royal Marines unit in Afghanistan. Listening to stories about their adventures, Power decided he wanted someof the same and so handed in his notice and enrolled in a Photojournalism degree at the London College ofCommunication.He has had worked published in The Times, Sky News, The Independent, and has worked extensively with the Royal British Legion including an exhibition of work from Afghanistan in a Mayfair gallery. When photographing he likes to spend time with the subject, slowly getting to know the story and the people he is trying to portraywithin it. Every person has a novel within them, Power likes to find the portrait that best illustrates what chapterthe individual’s novel is on.

www.sean-power.co.uk



Phil NichollsLot # 28

Photographer Phil Nicholls was born in Cornwall andstudied at Falmouth School of Art and Bath Academyof Art. A passion for music and the related rock imagesof cult photographer Anton Corbijn lead him to abandonfine art and specialise in photography.In 1985, not long after leaving Bath Academy hereceived his first break in the music business scoopingthe Zigzag/Pentax Photographer of the Year RockPortrait Award. This took him to London beginning hiscareer as a freelance music photographer.He joined weekly music paper Melody Maker in 1985 andover the next 12 years became renowned for his gritty,intelligent portraits of rock celebrities, developing into amajor figure in his field. His iconic images of artists likeRed Hot Chili Peppers, Amy Winehouse, The Prodigy,Bjork and Courtney Love have appeared in Vogue,Uncut, Q, The Guardian, Telegraph, NME and countlessother titles, while his work has been exhibited in London,Brussels and Tokyo.

www.philnicholls.co.uk

Micheal LeckieLot # 29

PrintRichard Ayoade Portrait 20 x 16

Michael Leckie is an editorial, portrait and commercial photographer based in London. His ability to drink a lot of coffee and still shoot with a steady hand has seen Michael work with some of the biggest celebrities and people in fashion, media and music.

Originally from Belfast, Michael’s love of music and lack of musical ability saw him pick up the camera and turn his attention to capturing performers in action, Michael swiftly moved into portraiture and creating images. Clients include Warner Music UK, The Sunday Times Style, Sundance Channel, Dulux, QVC and many more. Michael has worked with some of the biggest names in music, film and fashion, including Cee-lo Green, Ed Sheeran, Professor Green and Rachel Stevens. Also Hollywood star Robert Redford, jewellery designer Stephen Webster for Elle Magazine and bestselling author Adele Parks.

www.michaelleckie.co.uk

John FaulknerMultiple Lots

Lot # 30Signed Print‘Elvis is in the Building’SizeTBC

John’s work is truly unique. He cleverly combines pen, ink and watercolour with an incredible attention to detail to create endearing characters that give a comical slant to everyday life.He has been interviewed by the BBC and his work has been featured in the British press and exhibited in the UK and USA.We’re not sure where he gets his ideas from and to be honest it’s probably best we do not know. Enjoy!

www.johnfaulkner.co.uk

Lot # 32Signed PrintCompletely PussedSizeTBC

Lot # 31Signed PrintDistinguished Alpha MaleSIzeTBC

Matt PontinLot # 33

Matthew Pontin has lived in the South West since gaining an MA in Photography in 2005 from University College Falmouth, where he taught before moving to Plymouth in 2009 to work as part-time lecturer in photography at Plymouth College of Art. Previously he gained a first class BA (Hons) in Photojournalism from Swansea Metropolitan University, after which he developed a freelance practice exploring social documentary and community collaboration. His research interests are situated around image culture and social mobility; the interactions between place, photography and collective memory. He has undertaken numerous commissions and exhibited across the UK; Ffotogallery and G39 Gallery (Cardiff), CCANW (Exeter), Bath Arts Fringe as well as at University of Kent during ‘Cultural Memory’ curated conference curated by Colette Wilson. He has had several works published, notably; ‘Ha Ha: Margam Revisited’ (Ffotogallery), and SAGE Journal ‘Space and Culture’ (University of Alberta). He has curated diverse shows including Arts Council England supported ‘Unravelling Photography’ at Quay Arts Centre (Isle of Wight) and founded ‘Embark: Ferry Art’ (Cornwall). As Creative Director of Fotonow his practice has evolved into a more collective approach in developing dynamic photographic initiatives within the region.

www.fotonow.org

Paul BiddleLot # 34

The contempory surreal fine art photography of Paul Biddle displays a highly original and creative approach to image making. He is an award winning surrealist photographer whose work has gained the respect of his contemporaries for creating surrealistic and playful pictures of the highest technical standards. Mostly shot and composed ‘in camera’, he also uses digital compositing techniques in Photoshop. Through his exquisite capturing of the light, form, surface and space Paul seeks to expose the beauty of the familiar whilst offering new surreal narratives and thought provoking juxtapositions.

www.paulbiddle.com

Tim PearceLot # 35

Ambrotype FramedFrame 16x12, ambrotype 4.5x3.5

Tim Pearse is a practising fine art and portraitphotographer based in Somerset. The synthesis offine art photography and craftsmanship is the centralcreative methodology present in the making of his work,all else branching from this tactile method to produceunique, one of a kind art objects.Utilising a giant handmade camera combined withnineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centurytechnology, the representation of his artistic ideologycomes to the surface, engaging with concepts ofsustainability in the face of progressivism, throughsurrealist mirroring of semiotic contexts or directpositioning of complex thematic responses to personalthought processes.Specialising in ultra large format photography andthe wet collodion process, Pearse works within studioenvironments and on location to produce creativeresponses to commercial briefs and individualcommissions, as well as working on personal projects forexhibition on a national level.

Phil ParrLot # 36

www.parrphotographic.co.uk

Phil Parr is an Associate of the British Institute of Professional Photographers (ABIPP) and has 16 years photographic experience in the UK, Canada and South Africa.He earns a living as a wedding photograher locally to the South West and internationally. He also photograph naturals history, and specialises in underwater photography.Phil Parr is now embarking on a teaching career at Plymouth College of Art.

Andrew NadolskiLot # 37

Framed Print ‘End of the Land’17x20.5In beech frame

Andrew Nadolski is a photographer and design consultant based in Exeter, Devon. He was born in Derby in 1964 and moved to Exeter to study graphic design and photography at the then Exeter College of Art, receiving BA hons in 1986. He feels a special connection with Cornwall as it was where fathers family lived on arriving as refugees from Poland, after World War 2.His impressionist views are nearer to art than photography, Nadolski has shown himself to be a perceptive observer of the landscapes most subtle variations, each shot personal, pure and self contained. He specialises in seascapes and with the wash of the constantly moving sea.

www.nadolski.com

Vanessa GriffithsLot # 38

www.vanessagriffith.com

Vanessa Griffiths is a black and white photographer based in Devon. All of her work is shot on a Pentax 6 x 7 medium format camera and hand-printed on fibre-based paper, some sepia, selenium or lith printed.

Louise Fago-RuskinLot # 39

”It is a measure of success that in a technological age, in which the over proliferation of the photographic image assaults our senses day in and day out, that a series of images can cease the visual noise and force one to contemplate and question that which has been presented. Louise Fago-Ruskin is one such artist and her photographs are stark musings presented as a series of ‘confessional’ images. You are not presented with intimate identities but culturally imposed ones, conveyed through her subjects. These are carefully constructed images. The artist employs visual metaphors to allude to personal histories and social conformities and control. These are visually ambigous images but beautifully crafted and simply presented for what they are.”

Katayoun Pasban

www.louisefagoruskin.co.uk

Laura Jayne WeeksLot # 40

Laura Jayne Weeks describes herself as “a Cornish Illustrator who likes coffee, forget me nots, red squirrels and the smell of rain”. She has worked on a range of wierd and wonderful commissions including the album cover work for British band Delta Sleep, Bait magazine, clothing brand Bairdy, Plymouth City Roller Girls and interactive game Resurgam.

Tom OldhamLot # 41

Tom Oldham is a London-based photographerspecialising in portraiture and music. In the past decadehe has shot many of the worlds leading recording artists,from bona fide superstars to the hottest emerging talent.Tom regularly shoots for Mojo magazine, he’s responsiblefor 60+ front covers of the UK’s most popularmusic magazine, The Fly and has been the officialphotographer for V Festival for the past 5 years.Tom combines his core music work with commercial briefsfor a range of leading brands, as well as more charitableand socially aware causes such as his work in Africa forRiders for Health and War Child.

www.tomoldham.com

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