John Darwell
Education
| 1999 onwards: |
Sunderland University, researching PhD on the photographic depiction of mental health. |
| 1976 –1980: |
Manchester Polytechnic, BA Hons, Photography |
| 1974 – 1976: |
Bolton College of Art and Design, Foundation Course. |
Current Academic Positions
Associate Senior Lecturer 0.5 in Photography, University of Bolton
Part-time lecturer: BA Hons Editorial Photography, Cumbria Institute of the Arts
Researcher: Cumbria Institute of the Arts
Projects/Conferences 2004 onwards
Visiting artist/speaker University North Texas, October 05
Visiting artist/speaker, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, October 05
One of four artists invited to exhibit on webgallery for SAFoto, USA Sept 05 – Jan 06
Speaker at documentary photography conference, Napier University, Edinburgh, Sept 05
Visiting lecturer Domfoto Summer school Poprad, Slovakia, August 05
Dark Days. Speaker at ACE (University Arizona) conference San Antonio, Texas. June ‘05 on experiences of documenting Foot and Mouth outbreak in Cumbria.
Not Starting from Here. Psychologically based images focussing on the West Coast of Cumbria. Supported by Arts Council England
After Schwitters. Ongoing collaboration with Littoral Arts exploring the work of German artist Kurt Schwitters, who settled and eventually died at Elterwater in Cumbria, involving a personal response to sites in UK, Norway and Germany.
100 Yards or So. Ongoing project to explore a short stretch of the River Petteril, Cumbria
July ’04: Speaker at Tate Britain conference on Kurt Schwitters in England.
August ‘04: Speaker at IVSA conference, San Francisco Arts Institute on experiences of documenting Foot and Mouth outbreak.
Solo Exhibitions
| 2007 |
Committed to Memory. A twenty five year retrospective, Tullie House, Carlisle |
| 2005 |
A Black Dog Came Calling Institute of Psychiatry Gallery, London |
| 2004 |
(h)arris. Installation of images at 15 rail stations along Cumbria Coastal Line |
| 2003 |
After Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters in England Conference, Elterwater, Cumbria |
| 2002 |
Consequences, Inaugural exhibition Gallery Oldham |
| 2001 |
Legacy, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle |
| 1998 |
By Association, Tom Blau Gallery, London
By Association, Folly Gallery, Lancaster |
| 1997 |
First and Last, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford
By Association, Mill Gallery, Carlisle
Where it all began, Centro Colombo Americano, Medellin, Colombia |
| 1996 |
In Isolation, Euston Station Escalators, London
Workplace, Durham Art Gallery, Durham |
| 1995 |
Jimmy Jock…Fotonoviembre, Centro de Fotografia, Santa Cruz, Tenerife |
| 1994 |
The Big Ditch, Duncan of Jordanstone Gallery, Dundee
Scratching the Surface, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle |
| 1993 |
Jimmy Jock, Albert & the Six Sided Clock, Maritime Museum, Liverpool
The Big Ditch, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead |
| 1992 |
The Big Ditch, Manor Gallery, Carlisle
The Big Ditch, Calderdale Industrial Museum, Halifax, Yorkshire |
| 1991 |
The Big Ditch, Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, Cheshire |
| 1990 |
The Big Ditch, Maritime Museum, Liverpool
The Big Ditch, Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery, Blackburn |
| 1989 |
A Sense of Place, Longtown Arts Centre, Cumbria
Borderland, Manor Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria
Regeneration, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield |
| 1987 |
Working Lives, Bonnington Gallery, Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham
The Big Ditch, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford, Manchester
Working Lives, Side Gallery, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne |
| 1986 |
Working Lives, Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport |
| 1984 |
Cityscapes, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria
Landscapes, Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2007 |
Legacy, on the anniversary of the abolition of slavery. Harbour Gallery, Whitehaven, Cumbria |
| 2006 |
Uneasy Spaces, 80
Washington Square East Galleries, New York |
| 2006 |
Terror,
Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco |
| 2006 |
Lowood Collection 2006 -
2009, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria |
| 2006 |
Dark Days as part of Cultural Documents of Foot and Mouth exhibition, Holden Gallery,
Manchester |
| 2005 |
In Isolation, SAFotofest, San Antonio, Texas |
| 2005 |
New Horizons, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria |
| 2005 |
Dark Days (abridged) ICIA, Bath |
| 2005 |
Madness Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy |
| 2005 |
Liminal Britain University North Texas Art Gallery, Denton, Texas |
| 2005 |
(f)actual. The Gallery, Napier University, Edinburgh |
| 2005 |
Moment by Moment, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria |
| 2004 |
Launch of Lowood Collection, Lowood Gallery, Cumbria |
| 2004 |
A Black Dog Came Calling, Mad For Arts Exhibition, Tate Modern |
| 2004 |
Dark Days. Images from the 2001 Foot and Mouth epidemic, Royal Agricultural Show |
| 2003 |
A Different World. Part of River Journey’s exhibition. The Lowry, Salford |
| 2003 |
Disaster Areas. ArtConnexion. Amsterdam. inc R.Misrach, P. Seawright |
| 1999 |
The Shed, Collins Gallery, Glasgow |
| 1996 |
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico
Water, Photometro Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Discoveries, Foto Fest, Houston, Texas, USA |
| 1995 |
Paradise Lost, National Museum of Photography, Film & Television |
| 1991 |
The Sheffield Project, Mappin, Graves and Untitled Galleries, Sheffield |
| 1990 |
Transport in the Park, Trafford Park Arts Centre, Manchester |
| 1989 |
Common Roots, Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1987 |
100 Years of Photography in Salford, Viewpoint Gallery, Salford
Sun Life, Best of British Photography Awards, NMPFT, Bradford |
| 1984 |
North West Photography Shows, Peter Scott Gallery, Lancaster University |
Book Publications
Monographs.
| 2007 |
Committed to Memory. A twenty five year retrospective. Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery |
| 2007 |
Dark Days, Dewi Lewis
Publications |
| 2004 |
(h)arris, Design Works, Cologne. Part of Democratic Books (#9) series |
| 2001 |
Legacy: Inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Dewi Lewis Publications |
| 1993 |
Jimmy Jock, Albert and the Six Sided Clock, Cornerhouse Publications |
| 1989 |
A Sense of Place, Rural Arts Publications |
| 1987 |
The Big Ditch, Countryside Publications |
| 1986 |
Working Lives, Stockport Art Gallery |
Various artists.
| 2006 |
Composition, David
Prakel, AVA Publishing SA, Switzerland |
| 2006 |
Photo Projects, Chris
Dickie, Argentum, London |
| 2006 |
Uneasy Spaces, catalogue, New
York University |
| 2005 |
Liminal Britain, catalogue,
University North Texas |
| 2005 |
Madness catalogue, Palazzo Magnani, Italy |
| 2005 |
Fotoseptiembre USA, Catalogue San Antonio Foto Festival, Texas |
| 2004 |
Massive Change. Bruce Mau Design, Canada |
| 2002 |
Love, Labour, Loss, 300 Years of British Livestock Farming in Art, catalogue |
| 2001 |
Foot and Mouth, Heart and Soul, Small Sister Publications, ed. Caz Graham |
| 1996 |
Foto Fest Catalogue, Houston, Texas |
| 1996 |
Artists Stories, AN Publications, ed. Anna Douglas and Nicolas Wegner |
| 1995 |
3rd Bienal Internacional, Fotonoviembre, Centro De Fotografia, Tenerife |
| 1988 |
British Journal of Photography Annual |
| 1987 |
British Journal of Photography Annual |
Exhibition/Book Reviews
Photography, British Journal of Photography, India Weekly, Creative Camera, Artscribe, Arts Review, Portfolio, Creative Review, Artwork, London Evening Standard, The Guardian, The Independent, Afterimage
Magazine Folios
| 2007 |
AG. The International Journal of
Photographic Arts & Practice #46 |
| 2006 |
Journal of Epidemiology Oxford
University Press |
| 2005 |
The Paris Review #172, USA |
| 2004 |
Journal of Epidemiology, Oxford University Press, UK |
| 2003 |
Adbusters. May/June # 47 Canada
Adbusters. Mar/April # 46 Canada |
| 2002 |
Baby Magazine, issue 7 Amsterdam
ZOO Magazine, issue 12 UK
Adbusters. Jan/Feb # 39 Canada |
| 2001 |
The Guardian G2. Pages 10-11. Dated 12.03.01 UK |
| 1997 |
Portfolio, issue 25 UK |
| 1996 |
Photometro, Spring issue. USA
Fotografia, no 56 Spain |
| 1994 |
Fotografia, issues 3 & 4 Greece |
| 1993 |
Camera Austria, issue 43/44 Austria |
| 1988 |
BJP, Feb issue UK |
| 1987 |
Creative Camera issues 8 & 9 UK |
| 1983 |
Camera & Creative Photography, June UK |
Plus images in D-Pict, New Scientist, Photo Art International, Guardian.
Other Media Coverage
| 1996 |
TV programme: Postcards From Paradise, featuring John Darwell, Fay Godwin, Ingrid Pollard and Conrad Atkinson |
| 1986 |
The Tanner and the Hat Maker, BBC Documentary on Working Lives |
Awards
| 2003 |
ACE North West. Major production award to undertake Not Starting From Here project on the west coast of Cumbria |
| 2000 |
Northern Arts Publishing Award for Legacy |
| 1999 – 2001 |
One of six artists selected to participate in Northern Arts ‘Artists Professional Development Scheme’ and to work with a Mentor over a two year period |
| 2000 |
Northern Arts ‘Visual Arts’ Award |
| 1999 |
Northern Arts ‘Visual Arts’ Award |
| 1998 |
Northern Arts ‘Photography Production Award' |
| 1997 |
British Council ‘Visiting Artist’ Award
Northern Arts ‘Travel and Training’ Award |
| 1996 |
Northern Arts ‘Photography Production Award’ |
| 1995 |
Northern Arts ‘Photography Production Award’ |
| 1994 |
Northern Arts ‘Travel and Training’ Award |
| 1993 |
Northern Arts Publication Award
Arts Council of Great Britain Publication Award |
| 1992 |
Northern Arts ‘Photography Production Award’
Northern Arts ‘Travel and Training’ Award |
| 1990 |
Northern Arts ‘Travel and Training’ Award |
| 1986 |
Arts Council of Great Britain Publication Award
North West Arts Photography Award |
Residencies
| 1995/6 |
Durham Art Gallery, Durham |
| 1989 |
Manor Gallery, Carlisle |
| 1988 |
Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester |
| 1986 |
Stockport Art Gallery |
| 1985 |
Bolton College of Education |
Selected Public Collections
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Centro de Fotografia, Tenerife; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; British Film Institute, London; Arthur Anderson Collection, London; Site Gallery, Sheffield; National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford; Maritime Museum, Liverpool; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle; Manchester City Art Gallery, Manchester; North West Arts Board, Manchester; Stockport Art Gallery; Viewpoint Gallery, Salford; Kings
College/Maudsley Hospital Trust, London.
Electronic sites
- Art Cumbria: - sites include, By Association & Fallout, plus background information
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Axis
- Dewi Lewis Publishing: Legacy
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Electronic Telegraph Gallery: Legacy
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Folly Gallery: By Association: A Concise History of the Nuclear Age
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Footandmouthdoc.com: Dark Days: Foot and Mouth in Cumbria
Teaching Experience
Part-time, Visiting Lecturer and Workshop Experience 1981 onwards
Blackpool & Fylde College
Bolton College of Education
Counter Image Photography Workshop, Manchester
Cumbria Institute of the Arts
De Montfort University, Leicester
Edinburgh College of Art
Inversnaid Photography Centre, Stirling
Kendal College
Leigh College
Manchester Metropolitan University
Mid Cheshire College
Napier University, Edinburgh
Nottingham Trent University
Rochdale College of Art & Design
Stockport College of FHE
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas
Sunderland University
University of Antiocea, Colombia
University of Glasgow
University of Houston, Texas
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
University of Northumbria at Newcastle
University of Wales College, Newport
West Surrey College of Art
External examiner for Higher Btec in Documentary Photography, Stockport College of FHE, 1996 – 1999.
Member validation panel BA Hons Documentary and Fine Art Photography, Stockport College of FHE. 2000.
Member steering group for Cumbria Boundary/RAB change over from Northern to North West Arts. 2001/2002.
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