Photography & Culture
Special issue on ‘Queering Photography’ with my paper under ‘Archive’ outlining the Bill Ward Archive detailing the collection’s history. It focuses on Bill’s album of Physique Era photographs compiled in the late 1950s and early 1960.
Statement
Statement I believe work should be personal: I make art about things I know and experience. My work is usually narrative. I hope that an element of mystery is always present allowing you to use your own experiences and interpretation. My principal concern is the yin-yang of life: positive and negative, inside and outside, dark […]
What I Like
‘The Spanish Riding Master’ by Mario Dubsky Collection Guy Burch, © Dubsky Estate Gay artists such as Keith Vaughan, Jarred French, George Tooker, Mario Dubsky, Paul Cadmus, and Robert Mapplethorpe are important to me. Not direct stylistic influences but because they treated themes I’m interested in with integrity and intelligence. Mario was a friend and […]
Writing
The English teacher at my secondary modern thought my form was too stupid to do English literature; he decided for us that we should only take English Language. For many years I believed his assessment but continued to write privately. Words have periodically surfaced on my artwork along with other symbols but (perhaps as a […]