Tales from the Edge: Overview

‘Tales from the Edge’ is a series of visual narrative ‘tales’ based on experience of ‘Edge locations’ produced for BA in Visual Communications final module ‘Sustaining Your Practice’ with Open College of the Arts, UK.

Underpinning all the projects is an interest in conceptual ‘edges’, the nature of experience and ‘reality’ and implications for activism to challenge and change social and economic inequalities and human environmental impacts.

The main focus of the portfolios presented here is on sequential book narratives in photographic media for physical and on-line viewing. But these portfolios are based on supporting work across the different media to produce a more informed and in-depth understanding of place in both subjective and objective terms. My work also explores how the specific aesthetics that can be achieved in different media affect perception, understanding and communication to inspire activism ‘to make the world a better place’.

Edges of Disruption: Everyday Gremlins is a body of photography, sketchbook and video-based books and images about everyday experience and real and imagined realities in my house and garden.

Edges of Suburbia: Anywhere Road is a series of documentary and creative photography books and digital images about the road where I live.

Edges Found: Aldeburgh Suffolk Coast  is a series of photobooks based on found texture and texts in Aldeburgh, a tourist town on the Suffolk Coast. The narratives are also informed by documentary and creative photography around the town.

Edges Shifting : Shingle Street, Suffolk Coast is a body of creative photography, sketches, printmaking and creative writing about Shingle Street, a small row of (now luxury) cottages in a minimalist shingle landscape  on the Suffolk Coast.