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4th September – 7th October
Spanning thirty years, Rob Irving's career
as an artist/photographer includes a ten-year stint in Los Angeles
working for Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, among others, and
experience leading community art projects in the Black Country
(THE pUBLIC) and Bristol (Knowle West Media Centre). His photographs
have been exhibited at the Photographer's Gallery, London, the
Canon Gallery, San Francisco, and an derelict X-Ray factory in
Smethwick. He is currently pursuing doctoral research at the
PLaCE Research Centre, University of the West of England, looking
at the tripartite relations between art, the supernatural, and
place/landscape.
For the past twenty years Irving has led "A
growing underground art movement combining mathematics, technology,
stalks and whimsy" (Nature, Vol 465, 10/62010), more commonly
known as the crop circles phenomenon. This has taken him around
the world, working on advertising and environmental campaigns
for such clients as Nike, Greenpeace, Microsoft, Bacardi, and
Hovis. This exhibition is an eclectic sample of the photographs
Irving has taken of the people he has met and the sights he has
seen on his travels.
www.robirving.co.uk
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