Collaboration

Selected Photographic / Film Work

 


 

Roger Polley and John Woodman joint CV for collaborative work

Projects/Commissions

1979/80

‘Coloured Lines’, Portholme Meadow, Huntington.

1981/82

‘Ritual’, Coastline, Lyme Regis, Dorset.

1983

Commission: ‘Landmarks’, for South Hill Park, Bracknell.
Outcomes: Exhibition, Installation and publication.

1983/84

Commission: ‘Arboretum’, for E.M. Flint Gallery, Walsall. Outcomes: Exhibition and publication of book, Structure of Chance ISBN:0946652058

1984

Commission: ‘EAUMAGE’ for Centre Culturel de la Villedieu, Paris Outcomes: Exhibition and publication

1986/89

The Dorset Stour.

1991/92

Commission: ‘Visions and Patterns’, for Exeter City Council in collaboration with Southwest Arts, University of Plymouth and Television Southwest.
Outcomes: Exhibition and publication

1993/94

Commission: ‘Spirit of Nature; Poetry of the Earth’, For Devon County Council and The Countryside Commission. Outcomes: Exhibition and publication of book, Spirit of Nature; Poetry of the Earth. ISBN: 0861148908

1995/96

Commission: ‘Vision of Lincoln; Poetry of Place’, for the Usher Gallery, Lincoln.
Outcomes: Photographic Installation for the Usher Galleries national collection plus exhibition.

Commission: ‘Fossil Forest’, for The Natural History Museum, Brighton, as part of the Brighton Festival.
Outcomes: Exhibition

Commission: ‘Sightlines’, for the Honiton Festival, Devon. Outcomes: Installation, exhibition and publication

1997

Television Programme made depicting outcomes of photographic projects and commissions and their relevance to the environment.
Broadcast on Television Southwest and Channel 4.

Commission: ‘From Sea to the Moors’ for Derriford Hospital, Plymouth. Outcomes: Photographic installation for the new Plymouth
Hospital Cancer Wing.

1998/99

Commission: ‘Mapping Saltburn’, for Saltburn Improvement Company and Northern Arts.
Outcomes: Exhibition and publication

1999

Commission: ‘Surrey Hills’, Landscape Assessment for the Countryside Commission (R Polley).
Outcomes: Publication

2000/01

Commission: ‘River Lym and its Environment’ for the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
Outcomes: installation for Lyme Ward, Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital.

 


 

Film/Video Installations

1982

SANDTRACK, tape-slide installation, 24 minutes (revised as a video work 2022)

1983

South Park Hill, Bracknell Axiom Gallery, Cheltenham

1984

Woodlands Gallery, London Swiss Cottage Library, LondonInternational Performance Festival, Bracknell

1985

E M Flint Gallery, Walsall Axiom Gallery, CheltenhamPhotogallery, St Leonards on Sea

1979/85

FRAMES – FILM INSTALLATIONS 1979-85, colour VHS to HD video

1983/88

Films and Installations shown over a five year period at
Galleries and Cinemas throughout the British Isles, through the ‘Film Makers on Tour Scheme’, The Arts Council of Great Britain.

1986

THE DORSET STOUR (video sketches) 60 minutes, colour/sound VHS/hd video 1992 Spacex Gallery, Exeter

1999

‘Mapping Saltburn’, Cleveland

1999

GREENHOUSE, 15 minutes, colour/sound, VHS to HD video

1983/2000

Gallery installations (Photography/video works) touring from 1983-2000

2000

‘Revelations’, Tullie House, Gallery Installation and exhibition part of group exhibition curated by Purdy Hicks Gallery and Tullie House.

2012

Installation- ‘Landscape Films’, Oriel Henry Thomas Gallery, Carmarthen

 


 

Published Work

1982

Perspektief, European Photographic Journal, published in Rotterdam

1983

Creative Camera (A Volatile Landscape),
Undercut Magazine, special issue: On Landscape in Film and Photography.
Ritual/Landmarks publication for South Hill Park, Bracknell.

1984

Undercut Magazine, issue: British Avant Garde Film, Video and Photography.
Deuxieme Triennale International de Photographie Charleroi; catalogue.
Eaumage, Festival D1Art Plastique, Paris; catalogue.

1985

Book Published: The Structure of Chance – Photographic projects, commissions and film/video installations 1979/85. ISBN: 0946652058.
Encylopedie Internationale des Photographs (A Nosjours, 1989).

1994

Book Published: Spirit of Nature; Poetry of the Earth, Devon Books,
ISBN: 0861148908. With support from the Countryside Commission and Devon County Council.

1996

Sightlines, Honiton Festival; catalogue with articles

1997

Poetry of Place, Usher Gallery , Lincoln; catalogue with articles.

1999

Surrey Hills, Landscape Assessment, publication, Countryside CommissionCommission (R Polley).

2000

Green Man in the Landscape, publication for touring exhibition with articles.

2003

Book Published: In Search of the Sacred: Selected photographic sketches, Commissions and projects. Cumbria Publishing, ISBN: 1-869979-12-5

2007

Book Published: Sequences: The Call of the Running Tide, Unipress Cumbria, ISBN: 978 1 869979 20 1.

2022

Book in production: Nature Reconstructed- Projects, Commissions and Installations 1980-2000, publishing date 2023

 


 

Exhibitions

1982

Perspektief Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Studio Evergreen, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1983

Royal Photographic Society, Bath South Hill Park, Bracknell
Reading Museum and Art Gallery
Axiom, Cheltenham

1984

Woodland Art Gallery
London Swiss Cottage Library, London
Prix Internationale Photographie, Charleroi, Belgium
Galerie Junod, Lausanne, Switzerland
Galerie Spectrum, Zaragoza, Spain
Centre Culturel de la Villedieu, Paris, France

1985

E M Flint Gallery, Walsall, West Midlands
Axiom, Cheltenham
Gallery Junod, Lausanne, Switzerland
Photogallery, St Leonards on Sea

1986

Workshop Gallery, Chepstow
The Barn, Willingham on Stow, Lincoln

1987

St David’s Hall, Cardiff
Mounthouse Gallery, Marlborough
National Poetry Centre, London
The Barbican Centre, London

1988

Dorset County Museum
Butlin Gallery, Dillington College, Ilminster

1989

The Sheldown Gallery, Poole
Plymouth Arts Centre
Myles Meehan Gallery, Darlington

1992/93

Royal Albert Memorial Museum,Exeter
Exeter Cathedral
Byron Gallery, Taunton
Art in the Countryside, Mamhead, Devon
Spacex Gallery, Exeter

1994

Plymouth Museum and Art Gallery
Burton Art Gallery, Bideford
Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
Art in the Countryside, Mamhead
Exeter Cathederal

1996

Booth Natural History Museum, Brighton

1996

* ‘Sightlines’, Honiton Festival

1997

* ‘Poetry of Place’, Usher Gallery, Lincoln

1997

* ‘Earth Our Home’, Lincoln Cathedral
Derriford Hospital Cancer Wing, Plymouth

1999

‘Mapping Saltburn’, Saltburn Artist Studios
Saltburn Library

2000/01

‘Revelations’
* Tullie House, Carlisle, Cumbria/Purdy Hicks Gallery, London

‘Green Man in the Landscape’
* Brantwood, Coniston, Cumbria
* St Martin’s College, Ambleside
* Grafiskt Utbildingscentre, Uppsala, Sweden
* Hagagymnasiet, Borlange, Sweden
* Poznan Academy of Fine Arts, Poland

2002

Musgrove Park Hospital, Taunton
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital

2007

* Lowood Gallery, Cumbria * Group exhibitions

 


 

Collections

V&A Collection (Bookworks)
Usher Gallery Collection, Lincoln
The New Art Gallery Collection, Walsall
The Brantwood Collection
Tullie House Fine Art Collection, Carlisle
Dorset Museum
Dorset County Hospital
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle (in progress)
University Hospitals Plymouth- Derriford
Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital
Nevada Museum of Art, USA (in progress)
Films in the BFI’S Film Archive Collection
Films in the LUX Film and Video Collection

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