Territory at Beverley Art Gallery, UK with RPS, IPE 162
“stark landscapes made during periods of extended solitude, alongside images created using pinhole cameras, made from apples, celebrating community orchards.”
Territory series tours the UK with the IPE 162
Selected from a worldwide open call and curated by some of the most influential people in photography today, this edition includes stark landscapes made during periods of extended solitude, alongside images created using pinhole cameras (made from apples) which celebrate community orchards. Spirituality, family, identity, and inclusion are some of the powerful narratives explored this year.
The Last Man, 2017 © Alan McFetridge
Exhibition dates: 19 September – 16 November 2020
Gallery Opening Times here
Venue: Beverley Art Gallery
Champney Road, Beverley
East Riding, Beverley, HU17 8HE
The selection panel included Shannon Ghannam (Global Education Director at Magnum Photos), Skinder Hundal MBE (CEO/Director of New Art Exchange), Yan Wang Preston (Photographic Artist and lecturer at the University of Huddersfield) and Cian Oba-Smith (Editorial and Commercial Photographer), who were joined by RPS Director of Education Dr Michael Pritchard.
On The Line at Fotobokfestival Oslo 2020
The exhibition contains works made by 50 photo book artists and artist collectives whose work urgently responds to the climate crisis.
On The Line has been selected for The Climate Emergency in 50 Rounds Festival.
The exhibition contains works made by 50 photo book artists and artist collectives whose work urgently responds to the climate crisis. Collectively the artists represent 36 countries from six continents, and their projects have been created in regions that span the entire planet. Their photo books offer a striking comparative analysis of a global phenomenon that has reached a state of emergency.
Photograph above by Tor Simen Ulstein
Exhibition Details
Festival open from: Thursday, September 10, at 18:00
Exhibition dates: September 10 – September 20, 2020
Venue: Arbeidersamfunnets plass, Oslo, Norway
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
Artist Talk: Climates of Colonialism, Annual Conference Association for Art History, Newcastle, 3 April
his session investigates how art and cultural production in the former British Empire has long charted the interdependent and co-constitutive logics of climate and colonialism.
Extremely excited to announce I'll be speaking at the Annual Conference for Art History on April 3 in the Climates of Colonialism session. The session was created by Art Historians Julia Lum (Scripps College, California) and Gabrielle Moser (OCAD University, Toronto). I've been working relentlessly for sometime now on this line of thought and I'm deeply touched the project has made its way into contemporary debate at this event. The conference brings speakers from around the world and across disciplines.
This session investigates how art and cultural production in the former British Empire has long charted the interdependent and co-constitutive logics of climate and colonialism. Examining a diverse range of media – including painting, video, architecture, public sculpture and photography – the papers consider how artistic treatments of environmental change can be located within overlapping and interconnected histories of acclimatisation, forced migration, land dispossession, resource extraction, deforestation and struggles for Indigenous sovereignty. Not only has climate been central to anthropological representations of racial differences in imperial ideologies – such as suppositions about which populations were ‘naturally suited’ to particular weather events, temperature ranges and climatic conditions – but colonial practices of extraction and commodification have radically altered ecologies under colonial rule. Following calls by Indigenous, Black, postcolonial and feminist scholars to extend the time frame of climate change beyond the Industrial Revolution, the presentations in this session imagine climate change not as a new event, but rather as ‘the continuation of practices of dispossession and genocide, coupled with a literal transformation of the environment, that have been at work for the last five hundred years’ (Davis and Todd 2017: 761). Taking up the rich cross-disciplinary discussion that has emerged around the Anthropocene, the session considers case studies in the Arabian Gulf Region, Australia, Guyana, Canada and the heart of the Empire itself.
Event Details
Friday 3 April 2020
Venue
University of Newcastle and the University of Northumbria
Artist Talk: Royal Photographic Society, Bristol, U.K. 22 March 2020
“..aimed at raising environmental awareness with details including the experience of making, how this has changed over the course of four years and the benefits of long form projects..”
Please join me at the Royal Photographic Society. The talk is aimed at raising environmental awareness with details including the experience of making, how this has changed over the course of four years and the benefits of long form projects.
Event Details
Tickets
SOLD OUT
Sunday 22 March 2020
11:00 - 12:00
Venue
RPS House
337-340 Paintworks
Arnos Vale
Bristol
BS4 3AR
Event: Artist Talk, Kindness Symposium at Norwich University of the Arts, 13 January 2020
A University wide event where I will be talking about process and documentary photography.
Delighted to be speaking at a University wide event where I will be talking about process and documentary photography.
Please email for more information and session times.
Feature: The Journal, Royal Photographic Society
“RPS supported series highlights need for action”
Exhibition: Dead End: 5 - 30th September 2020, Wex PHOTO London
Shot in the earth’s largest green lung, boreal forest; a hauntingly beautiful array of large scale photographs creates an acute awareness of fossil fuels danger to social, economic and political stability.
Solo exhibition at Wex London, presenting work from fire ecology research.
Shot in the earth’s largest green lung, boreal forest; a hauntingly beautiful array of large scale photographs creates an acute awareness of fossil fuels danger to social, economic and political stability.
Exhibition Details:
Private View: 5 September 2019, 7pm – 9pm.
Exhibition continues: 6 September – 30 September 2019.
Wex Photo Video
Camomile Court, 23 Camomile Street,
London, EC3A 7LL
Book Launch and Exhibition: Wedge Gallery, Sydney, July 25th - 6th August.
“A hauntingly beautiful array of large scale photographs and camera-less photograms…”
Delighted to announce a solo exhibition and book launch in Sydney, Australia.
”For his first solo exhibition at Wedge Gallery, Dead End, Alan McFetridge culminates work from his research project on fire ecology shot across Australia and Canada. A hauntingly beautiful array of large scale photographs and camera-less photograms, made across Australia and Canada, creates an acute awareness of fossil fuels danger to social, economic and political stability.”
Event Details
Book Launch: 25 July 5:30
Preview: 25 July 6:00 - 8:00, exhibition continues until August 6th
Wedge Gallery and Kinokuniya Books
Level 2, The Galeries, 500 George St,
Sydney, NSW 2000.
www.kinokuniya.com.
High Resolution Images available on request.
For further information on this project please contact Alan McFetridge: alan@alan-mcfetridge.com
Feature: The Guardian, "After the fire: signs of life amid the ashes"
“The 2018 Menai fire in Sydney ravaged 2,400 hectares of bushland. Alan McFetridge has captured landscapes and objects left in its wake in a haunting series of photographs…”
Pictures from the aftermath of the Menai fire in Australia are featured in The Guardian this weekend. The gallery opens on the 10th anniversary of 2009 Black Saturday fire in Victoria where 173 lives were lost .
The pictures come with a call to action for Governments and Industry to act on the use of dangerous fossil fuels.
Warmest regards,
Alan
Interview and Feature: Royal Photographic Society, The Journal, June 2018.
…”It is an intriguing idea and a beautiful book…” - Gemma Pagley, photography writer, U.K.
‘It is an intriguing idea and a beautiful book’ - Gemma Pagley, photography writer, U.K.
I'm delighted to have been selected to contribute in June's 2018 edition of the RPS, The Journal. Showing photography from my time in the harsh yet sublime boreal forest. The feature has a carefully selected group of photographs and interview by Editor, Kathleen Morgan and photography writer Gemma Padley. A very special thank you to Kathleen and Gemma for making this so enjoyable to read and make!
For full feature & interview please email alan(at)alan-mcfetridge.com
Feature: Royal Photographic Society
“Wild Fire, Wild Suburbs, Wild Energy project. The Boreal Forest is sparsly habitiated by humans, yet full on the rest of nature.”
Delighted to have such a wonderful write up by the RPS in their March News section on my Wild Fire, Wild Suburbs, Wild Energy project.
The Boreal Forest is sparsly habitiated by humans, yet full on the rest of nature. It is the Worlds largest land biome.
Photograph: Black Spruce, Highway 63, Alberta. October 2016 © Alan McFetridge
Environmental Awareness Project: Now With The Story Institute
The Story Institute to manage the Wild Fire, Wild Suburbs, Wild Energy photography
Delighted to announce that an exclusive global agreement with The Story Institute to manage the Wild Fire, Wild Suburbs, Wild Energy photography has been confirmed.
Tower Road, Anzac, Alberta. February 2017 © Alan McFetridge
Please use this link or email Matt at Institute for information.
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
Feature: Somerset House Instagram Take Over
Alan was delighted to host the Somerset House Instagram account over the weekend.
Firebag is a series of photograms by McFetridge that take place in the heart of earth’s largest biome, the boreal forest. On the 1st of May 2016; heated muskeg from a quad bike’s exhaust ignited a wildfire burnt for a month consuming 600,000 hectares of the forest life, including four suburbs of Fort McMurray. The city became a centre to explore the event of the wildfire and the contact points on interface of human-life and wildlife. The fire cycle is an integral factor in shaping the boreal. Accelerating climate change and increasing human activity at the interface are contributing factors that are disturbing the equilibrium of the ecosystem. This was made possible by a bursary from the Royal Photographic Society and The Photographic Angle. See his work until 28 March at @syngentaphotoaward
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.