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
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
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.
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
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
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
