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www.irisartisticplatform.com info@irisartisticplatform.com 07796 385 845
ABOUT / IRIS was founded by Elizabeth Ball in 2013. IRIS provides a platform to promote current and emerging talented Artists, offering the opportunity to share their creativity with a viewing audience and engage with the wider community, making art accessible to all via an Online Gallery and Exhibitions. IRIS features and works with a range of European, International and UK based Artists.
ETALAGE / IRIS supports creative talent via a range of innovative exhibitions and live events organised through ETALAGE, part of IRIS Artistic Platform, generating publicity and interest, raising the profile and promoting the work of the Artist. ETALAGE Exhibitions curated by Elizabeth Ball, place the Artist at the forefront, showcasing a diverse range of creative work.
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IRIS is proactive in generating positive relationships with a range of media organisations and artistic networks, whilst working collaboratively alongside a range of cultural and educational establishments within the arts arena, providing portfolio reviews, workshops and professional practice guidance. IRIS offers support to artists sharing knowledge, experience and opportunities from within the artistic community via networks, marketing links and creative partnerships.
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JOCELYN ALLEN / Jocelyn Allen, London based Artist whose practice encompasses Photography, Video and Performance with a particular interest in Representation and Identity. www.jocelynallen.co.uk contact@jocelynallen.co.uk @jocelynfreya ETALAGE III Covering The Carpet These self-portraits are a performance in contorting, balancing and/or leaping the body into poses, in order to attempt to conceal the pubic area. This is in response to the scrutiny and debate that surrounds the female body.
JONATHAN M BAILEY / Jonathan M Bailey, Photographer based in the North West of England, hugely passionate about Portraiture, particularly surrounding areas of Gender. www.jmbaileyphotography.co.uk jmbaileyphotography@hotmail.com 07565532507 ETALAGE III Polaroids, Mulania An edit of ten Polaroids from my most recent Photography Series, taking a personal look into the World of Drag.
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Northwest Photographer, Creator of IRIS and ETALAGE www.irisartisticplatform.com ETALAGE III The Everyday From a vast archive of Photographs, I display 20 exploring the ordinary of the everyday revealing the extraordinary that surround us. Photographs from 2013 – 2015.
ALEXANDER BATHER / Alexander Bather, UK based Fashion & Portrait Photographer www.alexanderbather.com alex@alexanderbather.com @alexanderbather ETALAGE III Were Here to Love An insight into my life and personal work over the last two years.
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MEGAN BAYLISS / Megan Bayliss, North West and London based Fashion, Beauty and Portrait Photographer. www.meganbayliss.com mgb.photography93@gmail.com 07970869527
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Christopher Bethell, Photographer currently living in London and studying MA Photojournalism & Documentary Photography at London College of Communication. Main clients include VICE UK, MAMAco and Dazed & Confused. www.ChristopherBethell.com ChristopherBethell.blogspot.com ChristopherBethell@gmail.com @cbethell_photo ETALAGE III Use Me or Live in Filth A series of images edited together from various commissions by VICE UK. The images are re-appropriated from their original context into a narrative about today’s youth culture.
KIERAN BOSWELL / Kieran Boswell, UK based Photographer whose work investigates theories of The Everyday. My images show a fascination to the ordinary and call attention to items that other people usually overlook. Someone who has travelled extensively around the world, I take inspiration from objects I have observed past and present. Creating intricate work that is aesthetically pleasing on the eye. www.kieranboswell.com 07872531604 ETALAGE III Exotica Exotica: objects considered interesting because they are out of the ordinary, especially because they originated in a distant foreign country. An intricate study using a pinhole camera ‘Exotica’ highlights the normalisation of commodity goods in our everyday domain - the house.
JENN BROOKES / Jenn Brookes, Contemporary Photographer. My projects centre on Identity, Place and Chance. www.jennbrookes.format.com/ @fleurblur www.instagram.com/fleurblur20/ ETALAGE III Bus Stop Series 2014-2015 This is a project that evolved from my travel to and from work on different buses. I first became interested in how people stand and wait at the bus stops .Now I am interested in the glimpse of people’s lives my photographs offer.
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Practicing Photographer, with a background in Design and Advertising. I consider it is vital to keep making images and building collaborative work outside of these sectors as it feeds the creative mind. www.ianclegg.com mobile 07941 138 714 ETALAGE III Book The project I have been pursuing for the past 10 years is to record and reflect the culture and the history of the farming based people who live in the Market Town of Hawes, Yorkshire Dales. Capturing the community I shoot on film using a Letterbox Crop Xpan Camera, which helps to compose and to consider the images.
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ANNA COLUMBINE/ Visual Artist, based in Manchester working across mediums to create unexpected Visual Perceptions. agcolumbine@gmail.com 07500242626 ETALAGE III Dune Repair Work Strange, unusual objects appear across the dunes and sands of a lonely beach; almost alien, they provoke intrigue, unnerve or disrupt. The book documents the harmless foray of these objects within the landscape, the images being taken on 35mm film.
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Stewart is a Scottish photographer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts focousing on the American structural landscape and consumer culture. www.stewartcraig.com www.stewartcraig.tumblr.com stwrtcrg@gmail.com ETALAGE III American Beauty Ironies of the Consumer Landscape
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KEVIN CROOKS / Kevin Crooks, Postgraduate student studying MA Photography at UCLan. Currently exploring the effects of how changes to government policy, initiatives and programmes shape the lives of people within society. www.kevincrooks.co.uk ETALAGE III On Reserve The Army Reserve is undergoing a national re-structure and re-branding; over the coming years the UK Government is looking to invest £1.2 billion from now until 2020 in order to increase the number of voluntary Army Reservists from 19,000 as it stands currently, to 30,000 by the end of the decade. This will be in line with the Governments intention to reduce the “regular”, professional armed forces by 102,000 to 82,000 soldiers. The images form part of a larger body of work which covers the stories of a number of voluntary soldiers based in and around the North-West.
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ALEXANDER CUTLER / Alexander Cutler, Photographer based in the North West specialising in Architecture and Installation with an interest in Street Documentary www.alexandercutler.co.uk alex.cutler@hotmail.co.uk 07712263466 @alexntcutler ETALAGE III Metrolink Portraits Uclan Photography Course also have a publication called NORTH, Book Launch May 28th in Preston, 4th June at Village Book Store Leeds and 25th June at The Photographers’ Gallery.
PETER DAZELEY / Peter Dazeley, London. Renowned for Fine Art, advertising, anamorphic and nude photography, as well as flower photography. www.peterdazeley.com ETALAGE III Unseen London
ALASTAIR ECCLES / Alastair Eccles. Photographer based in the North of England, specialising in Documentary, Landscapes and Events. alastair-eccles.format.com a.eccles@icloud.com ETALAGE III The Beauty of Blackpool
HAZEL EDMUNDS / Photographer based in the North West. www.hazeledmunds.com hazeledmunds@gmail.com hazeledmundsphotographer.blogspot.co.uk 07708038097 ETALAGE III Reflex Retrospective I recently began a journey with a vintage Reflex Brownie camera from the 1940’s. Working and experimenting with the Brownie is in the early stages, but it’s like taking a step back in time. The feel and heritage of the old camera creates a unique finish to the silver images.
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Documentary Photographer, passionate about Human Rights. www.jessieedwardsthomas.co.uk jessie.ed.photography@gmail.com ETALAGE III My Friend Pete My Friend Pete is a collection of Photographs, illustrating his life with epilepsy and how he strives for an independent life.
JADE FINNAN / Fashion Stylist and Photographer JadeFinnan.tumblr.com JadeFinnan@hotmail.co.uk 07761679422 ETALAGE III Throwing Shapes A continuing series of images based on the idea of Shapes.
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TONY FITZSIMMONS / Tony Fitzsimmons. Southwest Based Photographer and recent graduate of Plymouth College of Art, specialising in Documentary, Wildlife, Landscapes and Storms. www.tonyfitzsimmons.com www.tonyfitzsimmons.blogspot.co.uk @green117v2 07814799294 ETALAGE III TSAVO Tsavo documents a four day journey across two of Tsavo’s oldest and largest National Parks, Tsavo East and Tsavo West. Featuring vast and almost endless landscapes that make up over 20,000 square kilometres of semi-arid grassland and savanna, and home to some of the world’s most incredible and diverse wildlife, Tsavo is a photographic series of the wonders of evolution.
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DAVID GEE / Lens Based Artist & Educator based in Manchester, UK. www.zoi.co info@zoi.co 07730888470 ETALAGE III Transmutation of Matter “Plastic is basically a spectacle that has to be deciphered: the spectacle of its final products. Looking at the different final shapes (a suitcase, a brush, a car body, a toy, fabrics, tools, bowls or plastic film); the matter presents itself unceasingly as a picture puzzle in the mind of the observer”. They are more than a substance; “it is the very idea of its infinite transformation; as its everyday name indicates, it is ubiquity made visible”. In essence, plastics are a deceptive beauty; they are the stuff of alchemy. - Barthes, 1957, Plastics.
COLIN THOMAS / David Gregory. North West based Photographer. Ex Commercial and Industrial Photographer, now specialising in projects of interest. www.david-gregory.co.uk mail@david-gregory.co.uk @david_at_bpool ETALAGE III Going Home We are all made of stars. This series of images is a whimsical look at our species’ long fascination with the heavens, and Man’s desire to reach the stars... to go back to our beginnings... to go home.
ZUZA GRUBECKA / Manchester based Photographer. www.zuzazuza.tumblr.com zuzaphotography@gmail.com @zuza_g ETALAGE III Photos from the Road.
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Photographer and Zine Maker www.jenniferlhaley.com jennyhaley@live.co.uk @jenniferlhaley 0778 4588 778 ETALAGE III Junrei Junrei follows the loose narrative of a journey, from England to Japan. An emotional series of personal experiences, following an innate gravitation towards Japanese culture.
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LEAH HENSON / Photographer, based in Manchester. www.leahhenson.com hello@leahhenson.com ETALAGE III Shadow of the Cross Through this work I wanted to visually explore the manifestations of religion, particularly Christianity in modern life. I wanted to examine and reflect upon my relationship with religion after the death of my Father.
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Liverpool based Photographer. Space and None Space, Echoes, Traces and Connectivity marc.marx.henry@gmail.com ETALAGE III Untitled
PHILIP HEWITT / Philip M Hewitt, Midlands based Photographer who specialises in Travel and Social Documentary. www.philipmhewitt.com @PhilipMHewitt contact@philipmhewitt.com ETALAGE III Berlin I doubted if I would ever come back. And so it was with Berlin. Most enjoying connections that remain elusive and prompted a return 10 days later.
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KIERAN HOSKING / Kieran Hosking. Photographer based between central France and the South of England. Focusing on notions of Identity and is predominantly presented in a Documentary Style. www.kieranhosking.com contact@kieranhosking.com 07429392935 ETALAGE III Living Rooms Living rooms are at the heart of the British home. When moving abroad we recreate elements of our living environment in order to feel at home. It is interesting to note recurring elements found in these living rooms and what they say about us as a nation and our expatriates.
MARCIN T. JOZEFIAK / “Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.” - Edward Hopper Marcin T. Jozefiak ‘James Blite’ www.jamesblite.com
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JJ KELLY / Documentary Photographer based in Oxford, working across the South of England. www.jjkellyphotography.com mail@jjkellyphotography.com 07731810351 ETALAGE III Cowley Workers With the closure of many working men’s clubs in Britain over the years, JJ Kelly wanted to explore inside one of the remaining clubs in his hometown of Oxford. Through his images, JJ gives an insight to the social club and the members and characters that frequent it.
PETER KINDERSLEY / Photographer with other 10 years experience, having graduated from Southampton Solent reading BA Hons Photography in 2001. Career began assisting the late Lord Lichfield, before becoming a freelance Press Photographer for the London News Agency National and PA. From 2006 to present, I have worked with a diverse amount of clients resulting in a range of different types of subjects to shoot, however I have always enjoyed shooting Portraits and Urban Landscapes. email-info@peterkindersley.com www.peterkindersley.com ETALAGE III Portraits At the ETALAGE III Exhibition, I have displayed two very different portraits but both reacting instinctively to being photographed and both showing strength but vulnerability in their environment and pose.
PHILLIPA KLAIBER / Bristol-based Documentary and Reportage Photographer, currently concentrating on unusual, often secretive subcommunities in the UK. phillipaklaiber.com foto39.org phillipa_klaiber@hotmail.co.uk 07840956815 ETALAGE III The Last of the Free Miners The Forest of Dean is a forest of plantation and ancient woodland, rich in coal and iron reserves and home to the Free Miners, who uphold an ancient practice of rights and eligibility. It is these traditions and the modernisation of the industry that make Free Mining so extraordinary.
PHIL LE GAL / French Documentary Photographer, based in London. Specialising in Photo Documentary, Reportage and Portraiture. phillegal.org elusivemoment.wordpress.com hi@phillegal.org ETALAGE III Exhibition Pardon de St Michel from the series Days of Mercy. The work “Pardon de St Michel” has received 1st prize from Gemma Padley from the British Journal of Photography in January 2015 at the One Eyed Jack Gallery in Brighton. Phil LE GAL is working on a new project to document life within the Schengen Area (an area comprising 26 European countries that have abolished border control). Project details can be found at: http://TheNewContinent.eu
BEKKY LONSDALE / Manchester based Photographer, currently living in London. www.bekkylonsdale.tumblr.com rebeccalouiselonsdale@gmail.com 07783152828 ETALAGE III Sögü Suru Sögü Suru is a continuous flow of images from the photographer’s private life; the people, places and environments that she engages with on an everyday basis.
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DENNIS MASSEY / Dennis Massey, Northwest Photographer. I don’t usually abide by rules when it comes to Photography, come up with any bonkers Photography concept or idea and you’ll find it’ll work more often than not. You’ll never know unless you try it. www.dennismasseyphotography.co.uk dennis@dennismasseyphotography.co.uk @photographcloud 07749785958 ETALAGE III odDBock 2015 A Collection of complementary paired Monochrome Images.
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JASON MCCARTHY / Jason McCarthy. Irish based Photographer who shoots Portraiture and Landscape. www.jasonmccarthy.ie contact@jasonmccarthy.ie ETALAGE III Isolation About Isolation: Isolated locations have always intrigued me. It’s the sense of abandonment and detachment from others that captivates me. Being separate from others and the noise of modern life gives me time to reflect and regenerate.
MIKE MCGINLEY / Manchester based Artist/Photographer working in both Film and Digital mediums. I am also a part of the Dotca Arts Collective: www.dotca.co.uk. My Photographic practice is something of a field survey, governed by the slow gaze and the subjective intuitive impulse michael-mcginley.com mikemcginley.tumblr.com/ michael@dotca.co.uk ETALAGE III Inventing Ireland This series of photographs is part of an on-going process in which I am examining my part in the Irish diaspora. Sitting on the boundary of two great competing forces, flimsy fabricated constructions taunt the Atlantic retreating into the rock face as far they can looking incongruous and utterly impermanent.
ISAAC MELLALIEU / Northwest based Photographer with a BA Hons Photography Degree. Specialising in Still Life and Landscape Photography. isaacmellalieu.squarespace.com isaacmellalieu@hotmail.com 07799217906 ETALAGE III Liberum Liberum explores the strive for independence during adolescence drawing correlations from childhood memories.
ANDREW MELLOR / North West based Documentary Landscape Photographer. My work documents human interaction in the Landscape, through subjects of Society, Identity and the Political and Environmental issues surrounding it. www.andrewmellorphotography.com andy@andrewmellorphotography.com 07710 176295 ETALAGE III The Docks Deindustrialisation is a process of social and economic change caused by the removal or reduction of industrial capacity or activity in a country or region. Questions of land use, industry and the effect of the decline on the economy, form the basis of the enquiry.
MARC PROVINS / Manchester based Photographer and Educator www.marcprovins.co.uk marcprovins.blogspot.co.uk mjprovins@gmail.com ETALAGE III In-between 10 years ago I was working on a project that was concerned with ‘in-between’ spaces, making photographs and videos on the London Underground. I started in June 2005 just before the terrorist attacks and continued for a month or so after. This is the work that emerged.
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Mark Reeves specialising in Still Life and Architecture Photography, shooting for clients in the Design Industry whilst exploring objects and spaces through Personal Projects. www.markitecture.co.uk mark@markitecture.co.uk ETALAGE III Project title: Collections -Series 1 Star Wars portraits - this project explores individual collections of objects, series one is a collection of Star Wars figures from the 1990s. Through these images I am exploring the desirability of objects and the drive to collect.
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LAYLA SAILOR / After completing a degree in Photography at MMU in 2005, I continue to combine Commercial Fashion Photography with Fine Art and Filmmaking, receiving an honourable mention at the 2009, 2013, 2014 IPA Awards and the Grand Prize for Art Takes Paris in 2013. Inspired by cinematography and religious iconography, I create dreamlike, surrealist works that reference traditional crafts, humour, sexuality and politics. www.laylasailor.com @laylasailor ETALAGE III Soft Furnishings Soft Furnishings is a set of works specially created for ETALAGE III inspired by aspirational living, advertising, surrealism and ‘erotic furniture’.
MIKE STEPHENS I photograph the Real and the Unreal www.mike-stephens.com ETALAGE III Belonging: An experience of displacement. ‘Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other.’ - Yi-Fu-Tuan, Space & Place.
ALEX TAVAKOLI Alex Tavakoli. Photojournalist and Documentary photographer, Based in England. encrustedmarch@gmail.com 07596707260 ETALAGE III Street Photography
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COLIN THOMAS Colin Thomas is a Documentary Photographer based in the West Midlands. www.colinthomas.co.uk colinethomas@gmail.com ETALAGE III Event Work from my project on public events in Wrexham, North Wales. The images were made in the early 1980s, first shown at the Open Eye gallery in 1985 and recently published by Cafe Royal Books.
AJ WILKINSON Photographer and Educator ajwilkinson27@gmail.com 07986215686 ajwilkinson27.com ETALAGE III Driving Blind What we witness is not the picturesque, but conflicting fragments of a different continuum. Travel is a relentless search for novelty, in which the self becomes de-centred. In ‘Driving Blind’ photographer AJ Wilkinson and writer Richard James McCann have worked independently in an attempt to record that strangeness.
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