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I've had several opportunities to show my works on the world via Rhubarb. In Fotofest recently, I had a group exhibition which was titled "International Discoveries". And then one show was in China which was in LIPF07. Rhubarb photo festival gave me that kind of good opportunities.
Duan Yuting, Curator for Lianzhou, wanted to organise Korean contemporary exhibition in LIPF 2007 and invite 4 Korean photographers (this time total 5 Korean photograhers showing in LIPF) from Rhubarb.
She selected Chanhyo Bae, Ayoung Kim, Mijeoung Baek and my photographs at the Rhubarb. Rhubarb festival is one of the influential photo festivals and hub to be internationally visible.
Thank you for organising.
Rhubarb Rhubarb has been an amazing catalyst for my Fine Art photographic career. I can’t recommend it highly enough for any photographer trying to make their way. It has brought many opportunities which includes print sales, publication, representation and exhibitions. It has allowed me to cultivate relationships with curators and collectors on an international scale. Most recently this has led to a solo show as an international artist in Lianzhou China. I first met the festival director in 2005 when she signalled how much she liked my work. I met her again at Rhubarb this year at something called The Promenade and a week or so after she contacted me with a view to showing my work in LIPF.
I cannot speak highly enough of the Rhubarb team and the support and opportunities that have come my way as a result of the network they facilitate. It can be a lonely old freelance world out there and having Rhubarb to support and nurture photographers is simply invaluable. I wouldn't have been given this opportunity (LIPF 07) if it hadn't been for the RR-/Review. So for me I would say that RR attracts influential curators from all over the world. People whom can make a difference for the participants. As a matter of fact I have just been offered to exhibit at LODZ festival in Poland next year, and I met Krzysztof Candrowicz at RR this summer. To me the RR-Festival is so well organized that I believe the reviewers are happy to be part of it, the atmosphere certainly is down to earth and good for the participants as my self. Another very important factor for us is that we meet so many other artist, exchanging ideas, looking at each others work, in fact we have made many new friends from all over the world, through coming here. RR review is a special and important place for this. Recently the work of one of the photographers who came to me during the review was published in the best cultural magazine of Greece "Highlights".
I'm writing to let you know that I managed to include another Rhubarb reviewee in Highlights magazine! The article is 6 pages long and I noted at the end of the feature that: "... the meeting with the photographer Nicola Dove took place during the international photo review Rhubarb-Rhubarb in Birmingham, England". I also included your site. I thought you might find this interesting and helpful.
We're going to publish in our next issue the work of Lyndsay Martin, I'm glad my editor agreed because I really found her work very interesting. Please find attached a pdf of the publication produced for my upcoming exhibition, Observance, at Pataka Museum and Gallery in New Zealand. The show opens next week and runs through until mid March.
Observance will also be exhibiting at the Lianzhou International Photo festival in China in December. In September a selection of the work featured in this years Noorderlicht Festival. We have an International Discoveries show that we just opened and one of the nine featured artists is Chan -Hyo Bae that we found at Rhubarb 2007. We always find good work there!
I am very pleased to let you know that we came across the excellent works of Chino Otsuka and Liv Pennington through Rhubarb-Rhubarb, so without you and your co-workers this show wouldn't have been possible. Thank you so much! The exhibition period is 3 June - 26 Aug 2007. The show will focus on the notions of representation/identity/portrait. It will be an extraordinary show, and these first time that these young UK based artists are exhibited at a Scandinavian museum. following the portfolio review sessions at Rhubarb Rhubarb 2006.
Intermix06 Programme
Two short artist films were selected, one by Patricia Townsend and one
by Nicola Dove for inclusion in this year Intermix06 programme. The
films were screened in association with the Leeds International film
festival and were shown at Round Foundry Media Centre Leeds on the 6th &
7th November and on the BBC Big Screen, Leeds from the 8th November
continuing throughout the month.
Online Gallery
Marjolaine Ryley has been approached to showcase selected images from
'Resident Astral' through Pavilions Online Gallery. The selected images
and text will be available to view on the Pavilion website from the 11th
December 2006. The Online Gallery is a dedicated web space in which
Pavilion promotes the practice of photographers who are based within
Yorkshire and North East of England.
Photofusion Collaboration
Pavilion is working in partnership with Photofusion to exhibit 'The
Prayer Project' by photographer Nicola Dove in Yorkshire in 2007/08.
Pavilion Banner
Five photographers have been selected to showcase their work on the
Pavilion banner. Each photographer is allocated a monthly slot in which
we actively promote their practice providing links to their website
also. The photographers selected are; Kate Peters (December 06), Kate
Potter (January 07), Barbara Downs (February 07),Charlotte Rea(March 07)
and Michael Mackenzie - currently being confirmed for April 2007. I thought I'd let you know that 3 artists have been slated for exhibition at Gallery 44:
Bae Hyo Chan
Spencer Murphy
Sian Bonnell
I just wanted to send you an announcement for my upcoming show at Nicole Fiacco Gallery in Hudson NY that opens on Sat. June 9. Some good new is that Stephen Bulger who purchased my print at last year's auction has taken on my work at his galery in Toronto, plus in addition to Nicole's gallery I have another one at Wallsapce in Seattle WA. So things keep moving ahead... After attending in 2005 and 2006 I have had ongoing communications with many of my reviewers. I was exhibited as part of a group show ‘Family Album’ at CPW and I was one of the winners of the Magenta Emerging Photographers Competition. I have been included in the Trace Edition. Bruno Ceschel referred to my work in The Rhubarb article in BJP this year and I have since kept in contact.
Going to Rhubarb has been a great help for me in both getting opinions on my work and raising awareness of it. It has also provided me with some great contacts that would otherwise be a lot harder to come by. Thanks! The artist Fred LeBain, whom I met at Rhubarb, will be having a show at ClampArt in 2007. I also purchased work by the artist Steven Miller, at Rhubarb, and displayed it in my gallery in New York in the fall of 2006.
As a result of Rhubarb 2006, I'm participating in a group show in 2007 at KODAK Eastman House. USA. Also, publication in Seesaw magazine in 2007.
Outcome of involvement at rhubarb 2006: I'm currently showing my 2-channel video work entitled “Confluence” at Galeri Image in Denmark.
I will exhibit “Confluence” at Belfast Exposed Photography in October 2007.
We will be featuring Dona Schwartz, whose portfolio I saw at Rhubarb, in the next issue of Hotshoe. I will send you a copy, but if you don't receive one by the 10th of Oct please contact me and I will pop one in the post then.
I have just launched another issue of Lens Culture -- this one featuring three people I met at Rhubarb-Rhubarb. An audio interview with John Blakemore is my favorite, and this issue also features work by Vee Speers and Elaine Duigenan. More Rhubarb participants will follow in subsequent issues.
As a result of one viewing I have the possibilty to have a show of my photo-works in april 2006 in Aarhus, Galeri Image, Beate Cegielska.
Following my meeting with Clare Grafik (from the Photographers gallery in London), she refer my work to Zoe Bingham from the Photographer’s print gallery they will represent me in the UK and I will have a show there that will open on June 7th, 2006.
There will also be a big party for my first book “Perfect Intimacy” coming out in April.
Also in September 06 (I don’t have final dates yet) I will show at the - Fotografie Forum international through meeting with Celina P. Lunsford
There are couple of outcomes after Rhubarb, my work has been invited by the fotografie forum international, Frankfurt, Germany,2005; Fotofest 2006, Houston, USA, 2006. It was very good time to see many people in Rhubarb and I have recieved many good responses as well.
This year's Rhubarb was brilliant for me. Apart from your amazing team, the reviewers were wonderful. I enrolled at the last minute, so my choices were limited, but I nevertheless have had some good things come out of it. Blake Fitch invited me in to a show at the Griffin Museum in January, a retrospective of the Nude, and I have 7 Fresson prints in that show. She and I are now firm friends. I also met Jim casper from LensCulture, who lives in Paris too, and with whom i have become close friends. I am currently showing with Lens Culture, and as he is the fastest-growing on-line magazine at the moment, I feel very fortunate to have met him.
Thank you again to everyone.
I had a solo exhibition in Goethe Institute, Frankfurt from 13 Oct to 16 Dec 2005. Celina Lusford curated my solo exhibition. I met her at Rhubarb-Rhubarb in 2003
I will have a meeting with director of Birmingham Museum in Jan 2006. Pete James arranged the meeting because he was so interested in my work.
Kathy Aron Dowell at The Society for Contemporary Photography, chose four shots from my
series “uncanny likeness” to be shown as part of her inaugural exhibition, in her rather splendid new gallery. So there is life after Rhubarb, I just want to thank you for all your
support and help.
In terms of opportunities arising from R-R, I had several interested offers and possibilities, Stock libraries, USA contacts, Photographers Gallery, Trolley books. All of these need me to focus on a specific area of work that
I met some wonderful people and got a great response to my new work from Russia, including an interesting magazine spread to be published in Magenta Magazine through MaryAnn Camilleri.
More importantly, I might also have a book deal. Nothing signed in ink yet but I'll keep you posted in the New Year.
Note: Simon's book Motherland was published by Chris Boot in 2007.
During the reviews I gained a lot of insight into where I was as a photographic artist and the areas in which I need to work on,which have been invaluable. I had a review with Sian Bonnell who is during 2006 going to be my mentor for the year to help me develop the themes and concepts within my photographic work.
The mentorship will take place in my studio at The Crescent Arts Gallery in Scarborough and have successfully obtained an award of £4500 from Arts Council England for the mentorship and materials/research costs.
Because of my review with Ute Noll my work "Relative" was published in Frankfurter Rundschau and also curated as part of a group exhibition 'Autobiography' in Darmstadt Germany 'Darmstadter Tage Der Fotografie 2006'
I have also been chosen as one of Magentas emerging photographers competition 2006 winners because of the efforts of Rhubarb to keep me informed.
Here is the summary of outcomes from people I saw in 2004 and 2005.
Basically, I developed a theme and curated a show from seeing Marcus Haydock and Andrew Scott's work, sensing strong links between them that reflected a personal area of research I was exploring. I wanted to have three artists in the show - all at the early stages of their careers - and it took a year for a third one to materialise. Although I was looking at photographers through various avenues, it was at Rhubarb 2005 that I saw Nicola Dove's work in progress and felt that she made a good bridge between the other two artists. The resulting exhibition, Subtle Bodies, has been running from 24 March until 13 May 2006. as a result of meeting reviewer Anna Douglas at Rhubarb Rhubarb last year I am participating in her exhibition Alchemy, opening at Harewood House, Yorkshire in July. I sought her out on the strength of her biog. advertising that she was working on a show of non-traditional photographic artists, so I think those 'wants lists' are particularly useful if they're specific enough.
I also had work considered (but finally not selected) for Fotofest, so I'm quite pleased with my one afternoon first exposure to Rhubarb Rhubarb. Sadly can't come this year, but keep up the good work. I saw a bunch of people at Rhubarb 2005:
BEATE CEGIELSKA (denmark) - exhibition in August 2006 at Galleri (arhus)
GUNILLA MUHR (sweden)- group exhibition in Feb 2006 at Centrum for Fotografie (stockholm).
DEBORAH KLOMP - screening at INTERMIX in conjunction with International Film Festival in Leeds 05.
JOHAN SJOSTROM -(sweden) group exhibition in Feb 2006 at Bildmuseet (Umea)
UTE NOLL (germany) - publication in Frankfurter Rundshau (Feb)
UTE NOLL (germany - group exhibition in Darmstadt Day of Photography, Germany (April). Just wanted to let you know that as a direct result of the portfolio reviews days at Rhubarb, I have a solo exhibition in Denmark at Galleri Image next year and I also have a one page article appearing the current issue of Photo Technik International. So thank you Rhubarb!
My first Rhubarb result of a show in UK which went totally beyond my expectations, was at TRACE. Sian Bonnell organised an amazing panel discussion with Chris Coppock and Jim Knight (MP) looking at the various layers and perspectives of the work. It was a remarkable event according to many of those who came, including myself. So, THANK YOU for creating the possibility!!
If you want more to the success story - TRACE organised a double spread of
the photos with text promoting the exhibition in PLUK magazine (photo london
UK). A double spread in Ute Noll's magazine, Frankfurt Rundshau of the same
series. (Also a video piece of mine was presented at the EXTREMES exhibition
Ute curated). I wanted to let you know that Eyemazing is publishing a portfolio of my Pool series in their March issue. And then Next Level on the White series. Thank you again for introducing me
and my work to them.
I brought Naglaa Walker's work to the attention of Harbourfront Centre, and she will
be exhibiting at the Photo Passage in Toronto in the Fall.
Just a Thank you for your help I have just won a wildlife photographic competition with Youth Hostel Association. Having been in and discussed With Rhonda the different aspect of my images....Hey it paid off...on to the next.
Just to let you know that, as a result of having my work reviewed by P Elaine Sharpe at last years rhubarb, she has recently published some of my stuff in Dislocation magazine, and is including a couple of pictures in a show she is curating in Toronto.
The whole process has been very enjoyable and rewarding.
Also as a result of rhubarb, I am showing my SeaChange” at David Kampfner’s SS Robin Gallery in July 05
By the way, I am publishing four Korean photographers I met at Rhubarb 2004
in the next issue.
I thought it would be useful for you to know that as a result of a portfolio viewing at Rhubarb last year, Belfast Exposed will exhibit and publish work by Scottish photographer Catriona Grant. The show opens on 28 April and runs until 10 June 05.
I met Michelle Sank at Rhubarb, as did Chris (a few years earlier) so yes, I guess you could call it a match made in Rhubarb!
For your interest, I am hoping to work with a number of photographers that I met at Rhubarb this year, namely Robert Harding Pittman, Charles Traub and Anthony Luvera. So fingers crossed for funding, I’ll keep you posted. In January (2006) we'll be doing a show by Rhubarber Naglaa Walker at Blue Sky Gallery. Our other exhibition that month is by Jules Greenberg, who is another Rhubarber if I remember right.
Marjolaine Ryley will be showing in Toronto at the Harbourfront Centre. (Same location as Naglaa Walker). Just thought I'd let you know in case Rhubarb keeps track of the success stories for participants & reviewers!
First of all I want to thank you and your team for putting together Rhubarb Rhubarb, such an inspiring, well organized and intense event. It was lots of fun too, because everybody seems to be at ease even when things get hectic.
One of my reviewers at Rhubarb Rhubarb 2007 was Krzysztof Candrowicz. He selected my work for the main programme at Fotofestiwal Lodz this year and I will be showing "City of Ambition" from May 13 to 31 as one of nine international artists.
The wrong information in Paul Halliday's profile stating that he wanted to see only UK-based artists could not prevent me from getting a show at Photofusion, London this summer (August 1 to September 27) ;-) I met Paul unexpectedly during Portfolio Promenade where he was directed to my table by referrals from other reviewers.
I made other great contacts during the event but it's too early to talk.
Please keep up the great work. I am definitely looking forward to be back to Birmingham.
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