This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
Absolutely thrilled to be selected for the Royal Birmingham Society Of Artists Graduate programme! This really is a great honour and an important step on my journey as an artist, separating my commercial and personal practice has always been a struggle internally for me, being recognised as an artsist in my own right, not just
Antipodes (2014) The Antipode series consists of a series of photographic diptychs always juxtaposing two exactly opposite points of the globe in a single image. The work was shot in a three-week period, traveling from Spain, to Peru, from Peru to Hawaii, to New Zealand, to Thailand and finally to Botswana, covering the stretches of
So this week I had the first of my one to one meets with my supervisor Laura. A really useful session, not without its challenges because she’s thrown some questions and ideas into the pot that I’d never given any previous thought to but I can see by considering these things it will help me
Part of my project beyond the composite tableaus is to look for non places in the way Marc Auget describes them. Rooms, area and structures that have no geographic identity whatsoever. Their function over riding their aesthetic or wholly defining it. Its also curious how certain objects the world over are all made from the
Coldwar Steve has taken a very interesting approach to his latest exhibition by inviting the public to download hi res images to print out as they like and display in any order with the aim of creating multiple exhibitions in all kinds of locations possibly globally. He challenges not only the art ‘establishment’ but also
Sydney Opera House, surely one of the most instantly identifiable structures on the planet, built in Sydney Harbour after an international design competition was launched in 1955 and received 233 entries, representing architects from 32 countries. The winner, announced in 1957, was Jørn Utzon, a Danish architect. However what if Australia hadnt been colonised and Sydney Harbour never established. Its reasonable
Instagram. Love it, hate it and frustrated by it, love it again…. current status mild indifference . I have two Instagrams https://www.instagram.com/martinbrent/ This being my commercial account and Ive had it for quite a long time. For my MA and burgeoning (ie not very existent as yet) fine art career this one https://www.instagram.com/martinbrentguest/ which
Andy Hughes provided a live lecture this week, it was great and very encouraging to see his enthusiasm for his work and his passion for Climate Change Awareness and the bigger picture. It was reassuring to hear that he often, if not always revisits image to add to them and develop them further, I am
This weeks theme was presented by Amy Simmons who is a London based integrated project manger currently at A&E DDB who Ive worked with in the past when she was AMV so it was great to see her pop up here. Her role requires her to work across the number of disciplines an integrated campaign