Dis/obedience to the Earth - Now available as a podcast!
In One Form Upon This Earth, 2017. 100cm x 125cm © Alan McFetridge
A while ago, probably long enough for some of you to have completely forgotten that it happened, Alan was invited to talk on a panel event at the University of Westminster on climate awareness. We promised that for those who were unable to join, there would be a link available so that you can listen to the recorded version. Well, my friends, your prayers have been answered!
Thanks to the handy work of David Morris, this event is now available on a multitude of platforms and you will not regret taking just an hour out of your day to listen to an intelligent and engaging discussion of spirituality and climate change.
Dis/obedience to the Earth - A Climate Awareness Panel Event for Interfaith Week 2021 is available on Breaker, Google Podcasts, Pocket Cast, Radio Public, Copy RSS, and Spotify! Click the link below to listen!
Fun Fact: ‘Dead End Days’, a serialised dark comedy about zombies released from 31 October 2003 through 2004, is commonly believed to be the first video podcast. As a side note, Alan’s upcoming monograph, currently titled Songs of the Dead, was previously called ‘Dead End.’ There is, however, no similarity between ‘Dead End Days’ and ‘Dead End’ … or maybe there is? It’s actually about Zombies…
Now you can become a Patron via Patreon
Our research and creativity is part of a collaborative process that involves individuals with varying backgrounds, skills, and education or training. To keep the work moving forward we have joined Patreon.
As Alan McFetridge’s work continues, it has begun to blossom into the Centre for Ecological Philosophy and the team working here at the studio is expanding.
Artifacts and Landscapes from Menai, New South Wales, Australia
Outside of an academic institution, the execution of our research and creativity is part of a collaborative process that involves individuals with varying backgrounds, skills, and education or training.
In light of this, to keep the work moving forward we have joined Patreon, a subscription platform that gives you the possibility of donating to our small research center. To thank you for your contribution, depending on the subscription you choose, you can get free prints, and even discounts, and vouchers for the Alan McFetridge website.
Environmental concerns are shared amongst many of us and it would mean a lot if you could help us find ways to fund the work we want to continue doing. Keep an eye on this blog to find out what is coming next and what your contribution makes possible.
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Antoinette Johnson (Any Pronouns)
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On The Line, 2019 is available at The Whitechapel Gallery Bookshop, The Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop, and Claire De Rouen Books. It is available for research at the British Library.
5 Nominations for the Prix Pictet, The Global Award for Photography and Sustainability
The photography work on dispossession has received 5 nominations for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet themed - Fire.
Pleased that the work on dispossession has received 5 nominations for the ninth cycle of the Prix Pictet themed - Fire.
Thanks to everyone that has contributed and become friends along the way. It's a nice feeling, sense of more people coming together to accelerate change, showing that piecemeal offers are not enough. We’ll enjoy this, in the hope the exhibition can show the extent and conditions of our now fiery planet. What it means. No celebrations here until significant and rapid changes to global landcare are made, with adaptation of wide spread, long term ecological philosophy - the work will and must continue in earnest - as -‘tears on the faces of stone, they are our own tears’ - James K. Baxter.
Thank you kindly,
Alan.
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If Not Us Then Who, Prints for Community Fund Raising
“Indigenous peoples are leading the climate fight and during this unprecedented pandemic require our support more than ever.”
Proud to be apart of the worldwide Indigenous awareness raising group,
If Not Us Then Who.
Indigenous peoples are leading the climate fight and during this unprecedented pandemic require our support more than ever.
“To us the land is our mother, the forest is our father, and the water is our blood, they give us everything that we need, for this reason we need to do everything that we can to save it.” Fifteen year old Kynan Tegar a photographer / filmmaker from the community of Sungai Utik, Borneo.
Help us to raise funds by purchasing an archival print from the beautiful work available on this site, alternatively please consider donating and read more about where funds will be distributed here and here.
Event: On The Line Book Launch and Screening, 25 August, London
Please join me for the UK launch of On The Line, new works on paper, sound and the premiere short film screening.
Please join me for the UK launch of On The Line, new works on paper, sound and the premiere short film screening by the same name being held outdoors at the Photobook Cafe, London.
DATE AND TIME
25 August 2020
18:00 - 21:00
Screening from 20:00
Performance from 20:30
VENUE ADDRESS
Photobook Cafe, 4 Leonards Circus, Shoreditch, EC2A 4DQ, London
Event: In-Conversation at the Royal Photographic Society with Dr Michael Pritchard, 16 June
Please join us for an in-depth conversation about how a better understanding of fire can help with environmental concerns.
Please join us for an in-depth conversation about how a better understanding of fire can help with environmental concerns.
DATE AND TIME
16 June 2020
18:00 - 19:15 BST
17:00 - 18:15 CEST
13:00 - 14:15 EDT
10:00 - 11:15 PDT
Please sign in 10 minutes early
VENUE ADDRESS
Online - Join from your location
Feature and Exhibition: The Royal Photographic Society Journal
Delighted to be interviewed by Kathleen Morgan at the RPS Journal for October 2017 and Event Infomration
In 2011, the plant at Mildred Lake site (shown) was the largest emitter of greenhouse gases of in Canada. It is owned by the consortium Syncrude Canada Ltd. The 183-meter high smokestack shown here released over 13 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent into the atmosphere in 2011. This includes Ammonia, Sulphuric Acid, and Xylene. The latest available data from Environment Canada shows the plant has lowered emission to 11.4 million tonnes. It is, however, one of seven plants within a 30km radius that released 34 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in 2015.
Out of sight for many, tar sand refineries are heavy polluters, categorized as ‘non conventional oil extraction’ by Environment Canada. At a time when CO2 levels in the atmosphere are already at the highest levels in 400,000 years. The colossal scale of industry and infrastructure in the region here supplies demand for existing oil-using infrastructure that has been building in OECD countries from around 1920’s-30’s . In the U.S. average consumption is 2.7 gallons (10.2 liters) per person per day. U.S. consumption compares to India’s 0.15 gallons (0.56 liters) per person per day3. Extraordinary, when taking into consideration world population. Countries with high populations contribute the least to the problem of consumption.
This was made possible by a bursary from the Royal Photographic Society and The Photographic Angle. See his work until 28 March at @syngentaphotoaward
There is also an opportunity to view one of the first prints from my RPS Environmental Bursary project is showing tonight at The Royal Photographic Societies IPE 160. Opening in London at Truman's. Please come and join me and the many others that contributed to this year's outstanding exhibition.
Event Details
12 October, Opening Night, 6-9pm.
Exhibition continues 13 - 16 October 2017
Please email alan@alan-mcfetridge.com for the Guest List
My very best,
Alan
Exhibition: Somerset House, London
Curated by Candlestar, it explores various issues to the overarching theme Grow-Conserve, including the challenge of food security as the global population continues to to grow; conflict, climate change and sustainability.
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart has been curated into the 2017 Syngenta Photography Award Exhibition.
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart. 2016. 80cm x 100cm
Bad Liver and a Broken Heart was made during the demolition of one the Greater London Council's initiatives, the Ferrier Estate in Kidbrooke.
The exhibition will be on show in the West Wing Galleries of the iconic Somerset House. Curated by Candlestar, it explores various issues to the overarching theme Grow-Conserve, including the challenge of food security as the global population continues to to grow; conflict, climate change and sustainability. The exhibition questions whether or not it is realistically possible to do more with less in order to conserve what we have today for the next generation.
West Wing Gallery
Open 9 - 28th of March, 2017
Mon, Tues, Sat, Sun 10:00am - 18:00. Wed-Fri 11:00am - 20:00 FREE
Somerset House
Strand, London WC2R 1LA
+44 (0)20 7845 4600
Press Release: http://www.syngentaphoto.com/pages/news/index.html
Feature: New Commission by Yorkshire Sculpture Park
"Art with Walls": Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth & Anthony Gormley
Alan was commissioned recently to make a series of images to present their impressive permanent collection as a "Art with Walls". Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth & Anthony Gormley's work features in series for the British open air Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Royal Photographic Society Environment Bursary 2016/17
Alan travelled to Fort McMurray recently to explore affected habitat in the Oils Sands region of Alberta, Canada after the May 2016 Wildfire. This field trip is part of the Royal Photographic Societies Environmental Bursary.
LeBook Berlin 2016 - Creative Awards Nomination
Gun Crazy, 2016
Alan's project on biosphere has been nominated for the Creative Award in the Personal category at LeBook, Berlin, 2016.
Special thanks to Photoby, for this nomination.
Exhibition at The Gallery, Norwich University of the Arts
Fuck, 2010. 90cm x 98.5cm. Giclee print on archival paper Edition of 20 ( Alan & Gretchen )
We are delighted to announce that Fuck has been selected for the show Hidden in Plain Sight at Norwich University of the Arts Gallery. The work was chosen by Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery Curator of Modern Art, Hannah Higham and NUA Visiting Professor Nichola Johnson, former Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts.
Nichola Johnson was Director of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, here she also set up the Museology and Museum Leadership programmes. She remains involved in various academic, mentoring and training activities, with a particular interest in unlocking creativity within cultural organisations. She is chair of the Executive Board of the East Anglian Art Fund and is a board member of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Pallant House Gallery, the Soane Museum, the National Trust and the Clore Leadership Programme.
Hannah Higham is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Norwich Castle and currently concluding her Doctorate at the University of Birmingham. She has curated several exhibitions and displays at the castle, and is an experienced speaker and writer.
http://www.nua.ac.uk/thegallery
Exhibition in Balfron Tower and New Portraits
Connected by a shared interest in the history and legacy of Balfron Tower, Alan McFetridge, Sinead Bligh, James Lander and those who wish to remain anonymous present Flat 15 and Flat 12 of Erno Goldfinger ís iconic high rise building.
It is within this unique situation and space that McFetridge, Bligh, Lander and those who wish to remain anonymous come together to explore the specific context of Balfron Tower as both a community, and site of social concern and consequential displacement. The artists consider the importance of who has inhabited the building, who is present in the spaces now, and who will utilise this environment in the future.
Through a combined presentation, the artists prompt an open discussion of the social, political, economic and personal implications of displacement and presence within this particular site and community. Inhabiting two vacated flats that though mirrored, imply visibly different histories, their interventions open up a space for interaction, discussion and consideration located at the heart of Balfron Tower itself.
Completed in 1967 in Poplar, East London, the 26 storey Modernist structure of Balfron Tower consists of 136 flats and 10 maisonettes designated for habitation by social housing tenants. After being granted Grade II listing in March 1996, ownership was transferred from Tower Hamlets Council to Poplar HARCA Housing Association in 2007 when the building was designated for extensive refurbishment indicating the beginning of the gradual rehousing of an historic community. In the intervening years Bow Arts Trust has provided work/live spaces for artists at Balfron Tower and managed education, environmental and cultural work in the local community. In 2014 the few remaining residents, and temporary community of artists and property guardians who have inhabited the Balfron Tower over the past 4 four years will depart in order to make way for the imminent refurbishment of this iconic building.
For further information and press enquiries please contact Harriet Cooper harrietcooper@btinternet.com High resolution images available on request.
Agnieszka Budlewska, Finance Analyst; Rosey Povey, Communications Assistant; James Lane, Chargehand caretaker; Renee Berkhout, Charity Sector & Explorer; Alex Smith, Artist, James Lander and those who wish to remain anonymous, Artist Alan McFetridge, Photographer; Alex Neumayer, Artist; Kimberly McIntosh, Student; Filipa Guimaraes, Artist; Peter Hose, Communications Intern; Darius Smitas, Caretaker.
Erno Goldfinger's concept of Streets in the Air is represented in this block of 12 portraits of people that are either living or directly associated with the tower in 2014. The background colours are based on the coloured tiles used on each Street.
Left to Right:Erno Goldfinger's concept of Streets in the Air is represented in this block of 12 portraits of people that are either living or directly associated with the tower in 2014. The background colours are based on the coloured tiles used on each Street.
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New Photography | Exhibitions | Assignments
James Lander and Izabela Szczepanska, 2014
Portraits with a range of people associated with the Balfron Tower. A 27 storey residential social housing building in Poplar, London. Designed by architect Erno Goldfinger in 1963, the building was then Grade II listing in 1996. With plans to restore the tower in place, council and leaseholder residents are decanted out and short term "licence to occupy" guardians move in to hold an affordable yet unsteady fort. In heartland East End and moments from Canary Wharf, without rent protection the neighbourhood's community are rightfully cautious and already exposed to unwanted change due to the capitals growing housing market.
Alan moved into Balfron Tower October 2013 and continues working on the project.
Fuck, 2010. 90cm x 98.5cm. Giclee print on archival paper Edition of 9 ( by Alan & Gretchen )
Images from a busy and fun 8 day shoot with Ron Berry, TIm White, Andrea Rosenfeld and Ginnie Assenza from RPA and an amazing crew from Los Angeles. Retouching by Recom Farmhouse, production by and shot in the Greater Los Angeles area.
2014 Toyota Yaris for Saatchi & Saatchi London
This is the final image of four from a vibrant and colour commission by Saatchi & Saatchi and Toyota. We worked with Mark Norcutt and Matt Hearn to Art Direct then merge the photographic and CG elements together, producing colour rich images for 3 models. Retouching & CGI by Recom Farmhouse.