more 5x4 negative scans

some more large format scans, just scanned in the negatives and then inverted them on photoshop.

unrequited: music video

Unrequited - Pyrat 10 from Shaun Glowa on Vimeo.

my friend shaun has made me this bloody brilliant music video for one of my songs. i couldn't be happier. cheers pal. check out the rest of his films on his website.  www.shaunglowa.com/

5x4 scan

this is just a scan of a 5x4 negative that i took the other week, i've just inverted it on photoshop. i'm back in the darkroom tomorrow so i'm gonna do some proper prints soon and i'm gonna be doing more large format stuff so keep a look out for it.

Spring Bank Mill Collective art show at Touchstones.

darkroom work

these are some prints that i've been doing in the darkroom over the last couple of weeks. i've put some contact sheets up and a few enlarged prints, i'm still working on the prints, i don't think there quite right yet.

artist profiles: sam ingham sam mcloughen

sam ingham

Paints Things

Sometimes,

I Don't Know Why,

But I Like To Stare,

At The Sky.

sam mcloughen

23 singing lamp posts

This sound work is made up from field recordings of singing (humming, buzzing, ect.) lamp posts. Over a two week period i took nocturnal walks around Rochdale and Todmorden searching out and documenting the few posts that produce audible frequencies. I was interested to find that singing posts uniformly emit the same root frequency, around 200Hz, just under G sharp. Other harmonics commonly occur, 5ths and Major 3rds along with a whole host of rattles, buzzes and other characteristics that are specific to each post. The sounds are presented consecutively in a 1:54 min loop. The project is ongoing with a CD release planned sometime this year.  

Sam mcloughlin (b.1981) is a musician and artist from Rochdale. He likes making musical instruments out of found objects and operating monophonic analog synthesisers. He performs and records under the name sam and the plants and releases music on the twisted nerve/ finders keepers label.  www.samandtheplants.com

artist profile: jack whiteside garry giomarelli

jack whiteside

Passing through the Sudden Subway on the way to school was what began my fascination with aerosol art, I was massively inspired by artists such as Clear, Nibs and Shunk who would paint down there regularly. At an early age I began sketching work I had seen in books or photographs I had taken of local street art. This then went on until I began to develop my own style. I first picked up a can of spray paint in around 2003 I would make stencils and use them to spray onto my skateboard, however I was always more interested in Free-hand graffiti. I began trying that in around 2004/ early 2005 in the subway which sadly got knocked down soon after due too some lame council plans to change the round about into traffic lights because they thought it would decrease congestion. Anyway it didn’t stop me from painting and my work pretty much developed from there. Its just a little sad to think how many other youngsters would have been influenced to go out and express themselves by painting walls like I was if the subway was still there. O well shit happens; especially when you live in Rochdale. 

garry giomarelli

I am currently in my final year of a degree in visual communication at Leeds collage of art. I enjoy working in a variety of mediums, such as photography, model making/sculpture, video and animation.

artist profiles: mei tse matt shaw

mei tse

Currently a university student in my final year of study, a reoccurring theme in my work is juxtaposing opposites, such as balance and tension, order and chaos, singular and collective. Most recently I am exploring the notions of micro and macro through three-dimensional experimentation – a collection of small elements that form something larger. Considering and responding to space, shape, form and arrangement are the main principles of my work.

The installation above the glass-domed roof of the gallery consists of a mass accumulation of clear acrylic hooks and contrasting solid white hooks, each individually connected to form a shape that reflects the space.

This structure has been used in two other locations, including Spring Bank mill, each time arranged differently in response to the space and environment of the location.

matt shaw

Incremental.

With the use of a laser cutter I have been able to produce multiple components, each exactly the same, simple squares. Stacked incrementally, with an even rotation, they create a complex construction, which would appear to have no connection to its humble beginnings. The column has been centre lit to enhance its twisted aesthetic and radiate a warm glow.

The form evolved from studying the molecular make up of DNA strands and the double helix structure that is produced by a process called supercoiling. This is when two strands of DNA become twisted into a spiral, developing the form we associate with the term. Along with RNA and proteins, DNA is one of the three major macromolecules that are essential for all known forms of life, therefore being a fundamental factor in our existence.