By pete kelly | September 29, 2011 at 09:41 AM EDT |
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DAF - Didsbury Art Fair, 24th September - 1st October, 2011.
The annual showcase of local talent, now in its third year, will take place from Saturday 24 September to Saturday 1 October, with over 200 events and exhibitions. Organisers are now putting the finishing touches to an exciting programme that will represent a huge range of arts from music, theatre, dance and comedy to visual arts, crafts and writing – all taking place at Didsbury venues.
To celebrate the 30th anniversary of leading independent lettings agency, Jen & Rob Wildblood of Montrose Properties, commissioned
local artists Ben Williams and Dan Mozley and they have decorated a selection of doors on Clyde, Old Lansdowne and Queenston Road with famous faces from the past 30 years.
The completed doors have been captured by fine art photographer Pete Kelly, who will create a photo montage using modern printing techniques combined with the ancient Encaustic process, where beeswax and resin are applied to the image to create a more painterly effect.
Pete’s unique photograph will be hung in the Festival Gallery and will be auctioned off at a classical concert, held in aid of the musical therapy charity Nordoff Robbins, which Montrose is also sponsoring. http://www.manchestersfinest.com/arts/didsburys-doors/
Marple Library, Memorial Park, Marple, Cheshire.
September 2nd - 16th, 2011
T: 0161 217 6009
I am exhibiting Photographic Encaustic pieces with J.D.Rees a local photographer who experiments with many different photographic processes, such as infra red, pinhole and cross-processing film.
No matter how they were taken, they have all been scanned and digitally printed and finally encased in Beeswax and Damar Resin to become Photographic Encaustic images.
My work ranges from local scenes, racehorses at Sedgefield and a bluebell meadow at Bolesworth Hall.
July 24th, 2011
Blenheim Game Fair
Blenheim Palace
The Game Fair exhibition was a great success, very well attended and many new contacts and sales made.
Lifepix is launched July 15th, 2011.
Lifepix is your personal images as Art, a Photographic montage of your images arranged on a Photographic Encaustic board with Beeswax and Damar Resin.
WildAid
San Francisco, California, USA.
Thursday, May 5th, 2011.
There was a fantastic photography auction in the beautiful Julia Morgan Ballroom in San Francisco. I was invited by WildAid to donate a print 'Blur Stampede' (above) to raise money for wildlife conservation.
It was a red carpet event hosted by Bo Derek, Jackie Chan, Maurice Green and Yao Ming amongst others.
They contacted me, full of praise for my work "The team here at WildAid think your photography is amazing" and I'm excited and privileged to be invited to exhibit my work in this high profile auction (the reach of our 25,000 global supporters and their 45,000+ active bidders in over 150 countries) whose aim is to conserve threatened wildlife through reducing demand for wildlife products.
They are showing some of the best photographers on the planet, including:
Michael Kenna, Chris Johns, (National Geographic Magazine, Editor-In-Chief) Alexis West, Lynsey Addario, David Doubilet and many others.
Celebrity guests/sponsors include: Jackie Chan, Bo Derek, Yao Ming, Edward Norton, Holly Beck, Maurice Green, Allen Johnson amongst others.
Let's hope we raise lots of money and awareness to save this beautiful planet!
Toovey's Contemporary Fine Art Auction, May 28th, 2011.
I have 3 Photo Encaustic pieces in this Contemporary Fine Art Auction.
Based in Washington, Sussex this auction house have an eclectic mix of high quality work from international artists including sculpture, painting and photography.
This is the first time i've exhibited here, i've heard it's a great show and i'm looking forward to doing a Photo Encaustic demonstration.
I was recently honoured to be selected for an exciting new website called 1stdibs.com which is a New York based multi-gallery site enabling viewers to sample the masters of photography like Irving Penn, David Bailey and Juergen Teller alongside emerging photographers like myself.
Another art website of interest which i've recently joined is saatchionline which covers the arts in general, under the watchful eye of curator and advertising guru Charles Saatchi.
There are 'Showdowns' which is an online tournament where artists can showcase their work and go head-to-head with other artists, giving the winner a chance to display their art at the Saatchi Gallery in London, so please vote for me here! Showdown
Staying on the topic of London, another London based website called Londonart has a wonderful collection of artists and a large amount of my work on display.
I thought this was an interesting article of the direction of picture framing in 2011:
Until the mid 1950s it was widely considered vulgar and pretentious to frame a photograph for a gallery exhibition. Prints were usually simply pasted onto blockboard or plywood, or given a white border in the darkroom and then pinned at the corners onto display boards. Prints were thus shown without any glass reflections obscuring them. Steichen's famous The Family of Man exhibition was unframed, the pictures pasted to panels. Even as late as 1966 Bill Brandt's MoMA show was unframed, with simple prints pasted to thin plywood. Since about 2000 there has been a noticeable move toward once again showing contemporary gallery prints on boards and without glass. In addition, throughout the twentieth century, there was a noticeable increase in the size of prints.
Below is a recent article in Harper's Bazaar magazine featuring my landscape photograph of a rainbow in Brabyns Park, Marple, Cheshire, U.K
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