Proects that I am currently working on, developing or am involved with.
Morecambe Faces: A Portrait of Morecambe | Lucy Baldwin | Musician. “I think the Eden Project will be a great thing. I think at my age I don’t have the right to be too nostalgic but I suppose I would prefer it if not too much more development is crammed in. I’d like to see more green spaces.”
Morecambe Faces: A Portrait of Morecambe | Tom Marshall | Community Involvement Worker/Project Manager. “I think Morecambe is in the ascendancy. I hope this continues”.
Morecambe Faces: A Portrait of Morecambe | Barrie Marshall | Retired part-time jazz musician and photographer. “It’s going to be great again!”
Morecambe Faces: A Portrait of Morecambe | Pete Moser | Musician, social activist, educator and producer. “I hope that more wealth comes into the town so that the poverty decreases.”
Morecambe Faces: A Portrait of Morecambe | Aronne Vettese | Bookseller.
“All Morecambe needs is self-belief”
Could this postcard image of the Charters at procession in Morecambe in the early 1900s show the North West film pioneers Mitchell and Kenyon at work?
I have a new exhibition for Morecambe Artist Colony opening on May 16th in Morecambe – The BIG Dance features photographs taken on one joyous day back in 2014, when together with Typical Type, we put out a call for dancers of any age, ability or genre to pop into The Storey for just a few minutes and dance for the camera in front of Typical Type’s giant illuminated Dance letters!
50 Faces- a personal project capturing portraits of 50-year-olds.
High Teas & Holidays is a heritage through art project looking at Morecambe’s holiday heyday through the windows of the guesthouses and the eyes of the holiday-makers who stayed in them. The project was conceived by husband and wife artist team Carol & Johnny Bean. You can see some examples of their previous work here.
“Morecambe Faces” is a personal project, an ongoing collection of people I know, meet, or come across, in my hometown, some formal, some less so.
In 2016 I was commissioned by More Music to photograph their amazing annual event – the Catch The Wind Kite Festival, and in 2017 one of those images was used as the poster for the 2017 festival. It’s one of my faves!
In 2017 I was commissioned by Attic Door Productions, a Morecambe-based Theatre Company to come up with a poster image to promote their forthcoming production of The Trial of Van Helsing at Lancaster Castle. The resulting image was shot in 30 minutes in a dark corner of The Winter Gardens in Morecambe with just the use of an anglepoise lamp!
In 2016 I had the wonderful fortune to receive an ‘associate artist’ commission to spend 4 days in Aberdeen from an old friend now working at Aberdeen Performing Arts. The Aberdeen Music Hall was about to close down for 18 months for a makeover and they needed someone to record the closing ‘Lights Oot‘ events … [Read more…]
S.O.S. Here at the High Teas & Holidays HQ we are busily beavering away on all manner of project planning, research, writing funding applications and discovering lots of lovely Morecambe stories. However, in order to really make things happen, we really need your help.
Few if any photos of Mitchell and Kenyon themselves appear to see a few have survived. It’s interesting to ponder therefore if this lovely old postcard scene which we came across in our research for High Teas and Holidays might just depict the pair at work, here in Morecambe!