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
