spring term artist talks

ARTIST TALK – Heike Löwenstein

18TH February 2013, 2-3.30pm, Studio 2

The interest in place and identity has run as a strand through Löwenstein’s photographic practice of over 20 years. In the 80's and 90's she has focused on commissions in documentary, editorial, architecture and industrial photography and worked for numerous national and international clients, for example Stern, OTIS, Dorling Kindersley and BMW. Since then she had several books with her work published and had numerous solo and group shows in Berlin, London, Glasgow and New York between 1993 and 2011.

Heike Löwenstein’s field of enquiry is photography concerned with meaning of place and

representation of identity. Her research pursues the impact of an environment upon the formation of identity and the self. The role of space and place are central to her research and photographic

practise.

ARTIST TALK – Stephen Bull

12th March 2013, 10.30-12pm, LT1

‘Lionel Blair Meeting Hazel Stokes’ from the series Meeting Hazel Stokes (2006)

Stephen Bull is a writer, artist and lecturer. His works using found photographs -

often relating to the theme of celebrity - has been exhibited in venues including Tate

Britain and The Photographers’ Gallery, London. His series ‘Meeting Hazel Stokes’,

shown in the Brighton Photo Biennial Fringe 2006 and in the exhibition “How We

Are: Photographing Britain”, at Tate Britain in 2007, re-presents snapshots of a

celebrity-obsessed theatre usherette posing with famous people in order to show

how mass reproduced images can lead to a form of fame.

He is the author of Photography (Routledge, 2010) and he is currently editing the

Companion to Photography (Blackwell, forthcoming). He contributes to magazines

including Source: The Photographic Review and Photoworks. He also devised and hosts

the live events Desert Island Pics. Stephen is Course Leader for BA (Hons)

Photography at the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Artist Talk – Jessica Potter  

13th March 2013, 10-11.30am, LT1 

Jessica Potter’s work investigates the photograph as a site of writing through processes of description 

that operate between the photograph and the written word. The relationship between word and 

image is central to thinking about the nature of the photograph. Within this context she has 

developed a body of photographic work and writing that takes the form of voice recordings. The 

work brings together examples taken from 20th century French literature and 20th century American 

photography, specifically the writing of Gustave Flaubert, Alain Robbe-Grillet and George Perec and 

the photographic series Labor Anonymous by Walker Evans. The relation between these examples lies 

in a desire to present experience and question realism through methods of description. 

 Passer by Iceland, 2010 

Jessica Potter is an artist and writer who lives and works in London. Her work is concerned with the 

relationship between word and image involving processes of photography, writing and drawing. She is 

currently in the final stages of a PhD by practice in the Photography Department at the Royal College 

of Art, London. She gained her MA from Camberwell in 2004 and BA from Goldsmiths in 1999.