By Tessa Bunney on 22 December 2009
It’s been a couple of months since my return from China and I’ve been a bit busy with freelance work and doing talks about my work around the country. Personal projects are very needy in terms of energy, concentration and creativity as well as financially so its been nice in a way to step back from it for a while and earn some cash and as always freelance work takes you to places and meet people who you had never planned to!
Things are quietening now in…
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By Tessa Bunney on 21 December 2009
Axis presents a regular series of Curated Selections of artworks on Axis, selected by invited curators. Matthew Shaul, Head of Programming at the University of Hertfordshire Galleries, has selected one of my works for his piece, Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Mapping Absence, Confirming Presence – Artists’ Negotiations of Personal, Public and Domestic Space.
He writes: In closing I want to move briefly to a discussion of Tessa Bunney’s Romanian Travelogue ‘Hand to Mouth’ (2003-6). Funded by Arts Council England and the European Cultural Foundation, Bunney’s ambitious documentary project was an attempt to record Transhumance, the practice of moving livestock…
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By Tessa Bunney on 23 November 2009
If anyone happens to be in Wolverhampton on Thursday please coming along to the opening of Home Work at Light House between 5.30 and 7.30 – I will be giving a short talk at 6pm.
Exhibition Opening and Talk: Thursday 26 Nov, 5.30 – 7.30
Light House The Chubb Buildings Fryer Street Wolverhampton WV1 1HT
t. 01902 716055 e.info@lighthouse.co.uk www.light-house.co.uk
The exhibition continues until the 13 Jan 2010
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By Tessa Bunney on 3 November 2009
Thanks for Tim Clark for the mention in the 1000 words blog, follow this link to see it: http://1000wordsphotographymagazine.blogspot.com/2009/10/tessa-bunney.html
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By Tessa Bunney on 13 October 2009
On Friday I am off for a two week trip to China, back to Yunnan province but this time I am heading south from Kunming to Jinghong and down to the Lao border. The rainy season is meant to have ended but I’ve been checking the weather forecast for the past two weeks and all is says is hot, humid and RAIN and the 10 day ahead forecast says the same. It may just mean we cannot get to where we planned because the road conditions will be bad but no doubt it will be an adventure.
Hence, I probably…
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 October 2009
I’m pleased to announce that Hand to Mouth, a journey through the Romanian Carpathians is being exhibited by Peninsula Arts at the Cube ³ Gallery, Portland Square Building as part of The Romanian Festival at the University of Plymouth.
Friday 06 November – Friday 11 December
Open Monday – Friday 10.00 am – 5.00 pm
Saturday by appointment
FREE admission
for more information please visit http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 October 2009
I will be giving a talk at The Mercer Art Gallery on Tuesday 3rd November at 2pm to accompany my current exhibition of Home Work
Cost £5
To reserve a place please phone The Mercer Gallery on 01423 556188 or email museums@harrogate.gov.uk
The Mercer Art Gallery, Swan Road, Harrogate, HG1 2SA
Gallery talk by North Yorkshire based photographer TESSA BUNNEY. Tessa has a particular interest in how different landscapes have been shaped by human activity. She will talk abut the background to her work, which involves close links with communities and individuals, and about her recent experiences of working in…
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By Tessa Bunney on 16 September 2009
Thank you to all my friends and colleagues who came along to the opening of Home Work at the Mercer Gallery in Harrogate on Saturday and for all those who aren’t able to make it to see the exhibition or to entice those who are intending to, here are a couple of pictures of the show.
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By Tessa Bunney on 4 September 2009
Thank you to Jim and Zoë at Lens Culture for putting up a gallery of photographs from Home Work – please copy this link into your browser if would like to see it:
http://www.lensculture.com/bunney-2.html
or try lensculture.com/bunney-2
The exhibition is open at the Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate from tomorrow! I’ll post up some pictures of the exhibition next week.
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By Tessa Bunney on 10 August 2009
I’m delighted to announce that the first exhibition of Home Work will open at The Mercer Art Gallery in Harrogate on Saturday, 5th September.
The opening reception will be on Saturday, 12th September 12-2pm.
Gallery address: The Mercer Art Gallery, Swan Road, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG1 2SA 01423 556188
Gallery opening hours: 10am to 5pm Tues to Sat, 2pm to 5pm Sun, closed Mondays except Bank Holidays. ADMISSION FREE.
The exhibition continues until the 8th November and then it will begin its tour at…
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By Tessa Bunney on 10 August 2009
Anyone who might be interested in visiting or knowing more about some of the ‘craft’ villages around Hanoi may like to know of a new book just published by Sylvie Fanchette and Nicholas Stedman: Discovering Craft Villages in Vietnam: Ten itineraries around Ha Noi.
“This book, the fruit of several years research by specialists working in Northern Vietnam, comprises ten itineraries, blending potted histories, legends, descriptions of craft techniques, signposted walks and maps, designed to introduce travellers and lovers of Vietnamese culture to forty or so…
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By Tessa Bunney on 8 June 2009
On Wednesday, I will be travelling to Madrid to take part in Descubriemientos PHE Madrid, PHotoEspañas annual portfolio review that gives photographers the opportunity to show their work to curators, gallery owners, critics, editors and publishers specialising in Photography in order to generate new professional possibilities.
The 70 photographers’ works which were selected by open submission will be included in a collective exhibition at the Complejo El Aguila.
The online portfolios can be seen at http://www.phe.es/festival/
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By Tessa Bunney on 15 May 2009
The North Yorkshire Open Studios ’09 are taking place on 20/21 and 26/27/28 June. Although I don’t have a studio open, to coincide with this event some ‘work in progress’ from my Inspired by Heritage residency at Newby Hall will be on show in the Grantham Room restaurant at Newby Hall. Also, as part of the events programme, in the Grantham Room I will be running family workshops using photography and digital imaging techniques on Sunday 21st and Sunday 28th June, 11am to 4pm. Normal admission charges apply. For more information about the Open Studios or associated events please visit…
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By Tessa Bunney on 1 May 2009
Three images from Hand to Mouth are currently on show at the Klompching Gallery in Brooklyn, New York as part of Splash!, a group exhibition of contemporary fine art photographs by photographers represented by the Klompching Gallery.
SPLASH! – GROUP EXHIBITION
April 30 – June 19
www.klompching.com | info@klompching.com | +1 212 796 2070
111 Front Street | Suite 206 | Brooklyn NY 11201
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By Tessa Bunney on 24 April 2009
gamekeeper n. a person employed to take care of game, as on an estate
Newby employs 2 gamekeepers (a headkeeper and an underkeeper) to maintain their pheasant (and partridge) shoot. I’ve been fascinated by gamekeeping for while, whilst working in Nidderdale I spent a lot of time with the gamekeepers looking after the grouse moorland. As well as the gamekeepers, shooting has a lot of other occupations on the actual shoot days which have intriguing names associated with it: beater, flanker, birdman …
So I couldn’t resist the temptation to spend some time with the gamekeepers at Newby. At…
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By Tessa Bunney on 16 March 2009
Much of the past few weeks have been spent getting to grips with Newby Hall where I am currently artist in residence and finally I feel like I can find my way around a bit and am getting to know who’s who.
The Hall and gardens are currently closed to the public for Winter so I feel its been a great privilege to be able to see the Estate during this time.
Last month, I spent a morning meeting some of the 40-odd staff with the Lucinda Compton, the estate owner. It’s been amusing to hear everyones opinions on who…
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By Tessa Bunney on 24 February 2009
Glasgow Art Fair 2009 23 – 26 April 2009
Pavilion will be attending this year’s Glasgow Art Fair, Scotland’s National Art Fair. They will be selling editioned photographic prints by some of the UK’s leading emerging artists.
The artists that Pavilion will be presenting at the fair are:
Peter Ainsworth Spring and Summer, Angel Road (A406), 2008
Tessa Bunney Home Work, 2006 – 2008
Lydia Goldblatt And The Word Was God, 2007
Penny Klepuszewska Living Arrangements, 2006
Andy Lock Lost Horizons, 2006
Jo Longhurst The Refusal, 2001 – 2008
Tess Hurrell Drawing Light, 2008
Marjolaine Ryley Villa Mona,1999-2006
Eva Stenram…
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By Tessa Bunney on 28 January 2009
In this weeks British Journal of Photography (28.1.09) there’s a feature about The Travel Photographer of the Year Competition and my photograph of Cao – incense stick making village from Home Work appears on p 12-13 as a full page and a bit spread.
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By Tessa Bunney on 14 January 2009
Back in early 2008 I posted off my CD of images and proposal for the BJP’s Project Assistance Award from Hanoi (wondering if it would even get there!) and was lucky enough to get featured in the 5th March issue of the BJP.
Selected from a longlist of 51 published entries in last year’s BJP, which in turn were chosen from more than 1500 submitted portfolios, I recently found out that I have been shortlisted along with 7 other photographers and following a group meeting in London in early Feb must now write an extended, fully costed proposal for my…
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By Tessa Bunney on 6 January 2009
I’m very excited to be one of 6 artists selected for Art Connections ‘Inspired by Heritage’ residency programme. During 2009 I will be artist in residence at Newby Hall near Ripon, a private Georgian family home and garden owned by the Compton family. The house and garden is open to the public between April and September. I will be producing new work for an exhibition and running a series of community workshops.
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