By Tessa Bunney on 13 July 2010
Impressions Gallery Bradford Thursday Late: Book Launch with Tessa Bunney
Thursday 22 July 2010, 6.30pm to 8.00pm
I will be showing and discussing a selection of my photographs from the Home Work series and talking about the making of the work. There will also be an opportunity to ask questions and a book signing.
Refreshments will be available. Free event. Booking advised – please contact Impressions Gallery Welcome Desk on 01274 737843 or email enquiries@impressions-gallery.com
More about Home Work
Home Work is published by Dewi Lewis Publishing with support from Arts Council England and will be available…
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By Tessa Bunney on 5 July 2010
After a few months of reconstruction my new website is now up and running with a fully integrated blog and a page where you can purchase my publications online using paypal.
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 June 2010
During 2009 I was artist in residence at Newby Hall, Ripon, a private Georgian family home as part of the Inspired by Heritage project organised by Art Connections and funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. An exhibition of the work opens on Friday 11th June at The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate along with the five other artists who were based at other heritage locations in North Yorkshire.
THE MERCER ART GALLERYSwan Road Harrogate North Yorkshire HG1 2SA 01423 556188
11th June to 18th July 2010
Tues to Sat 10am to 5pm, Sun 2pm to 5pm, closed Mondays except Bank Holidays.
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 June 2010
I will be at South Street Gallery, Scarborough on Friday and Sunday of this week (11 and 13 June) and next weekend (19 and 20 June) as part of North Yorkshire Open Studios www.nyos.org.uk, if you would like to pop along and say hello!
On show will be a selection of images from Home Work which explores domestic labour in and around Hanoi, Vietnam.
SOUTH STREET GALLERY 6-8 South Street South Cliff Scarborough YO11 2BP 01723 506010 www.southstreetgallery.co.uk The opening hours are as follows: Thursday 10th, 12-5pm Friday…
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By Tessa Bunney on 20 May 2010
Tomorrow I will be heading off back to Finland to undertake the second half of my residency at Jyväskylä Printmaking Centre and taking a short trip east to Finnish Karelia. I’m struggling to believe that the temperature is really in the late 20s when it was so cold on my last trip! I will be back in the UK on Monday 7th June but should be easily contactable by email and mobile phone during that time. As well as my usual mobile number my Finnish mobile is +358 (0)41 724 1355.
Sadly, though it has meant that I won’t be…
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By Tessa Bunney on 20 May 2010
Julia Margaret Cameron Award
I was pleased to find out recently that 3 of my portraits of women from Vietnam and China have reached the final of the portrait section of The Julia Margaret Cameron Award. The winners are now being selected by the jurors’ team and will be announced in the last week of June.
The Photographers’ Gallery commission
I’m also very pleased to be selected to participate in an ambitious project by The Photographers’ Gallery to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games in London. With 205 nations competing in the 2012 Olympics, the project will feature 205 portrait…
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By Tessa Bunney on 28 April 2010
I am pleased to announce that I have been selected to undertake a commission to create an exhibition of new photographic work and archival material about the Hereford breed of cattle for the Hereford Photography Festival in October, www.photofest.org
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By Tessa Bunney on 13 April 2010
I’m pleased to announce that I am now represented for print sales by Zoe Bingham Fine Art, a new private gallery in central London. Visit www.zoebingham.com to participate in an online silent auction beginning with the launch of the website on Monday 12th April. Auction ends 10pm Sunday, 2nd May. Also visit her website to see the artists whose work she is currently representing. The inaugural selling exhibition is: Dorothy Bohm – Vintage Photographs from 15th May to 26th June. Home Work will be exhibited at the gallery from 3rd July to 21st August, 2010. Viewings strictly by appointment only….
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By Tessa Bunney on 2 April 2010
I’m heading off tomorrow for a week in Morocco returning on 10 April. I’m not sure what kind of mobile phone reception or email there might be in the mountains so please leave me a message and I’ll get back to you on my return.
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By Tessa Bunney on 20 March 2010
As Finland comes out of its long dark winter towards spring, the sunshine has put everyone in a good mood and I’ve had no problem in finding people willing to be photographed doing their chosen activity on the frozen lakes.
I’m steadily working my way around the ice swimming holes in and around Jyväskylä and with uncannily good luck have found people swimming at all of them and willing to be photographed. I’ve been shooting on film so photos will have to follow later as nowhere here processes 120 film – I haven’t met a single photographer here who uses…
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By Tessa Bunney on 14 March 2010
Thursday 11 March
I’m in the flat. There’s no television on. There’s no happy 4 year old child. There’s no internet. I can hear traffic and its raining. I’ve started knitting some socks but I’m thinking about the residency at the same time.
It’s taken us almost two days to get here with an overnight in Helsinki. It’s cold but not as cold as I expected and its started to rain. There are big piles of dirty snow everywhere.
I wanted to get off the train all the time to take pictures.
I’m here with Debby who is also part…
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By Tessa Bunney on 9 March 2010
Between 10 and 24 March, I will be undertaking the first part of Connections North, International Residency Exchange Project in Jyväskylä, Central Finland organised by Art Connections and funded by Arts Council England.
Situated in Finland’s lake district, I will be based at the Jyväskylä Printmaking Centre and working on a project exploring the landscape and leisure activities of the frozen lakes. Although this could all change once I am there! I will then return to Jyväskylä to complete the residency in late May.
The other artists taking part in the project are Debby Moxon (jeweller), Sally Greaves-Lord (textile artist)…
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By Tessa Bunney on 25 February 2010
I’m delighted to announce that the Home Work book will be published by Dewi Lewis in July 2010. Watch this space for details of the London exhibition and book launch in July and a series of book signings around the country.
£19.99 hardback 112 pages, 53 colour photographs 297mm x 245mm ISBN: 978-1-904587-88-0
It is available for pre-order on Amazon now!! Thank you to Arts Council England for their generous support through the G4A scheme which has made this publication possible.
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By Tessa Bunney on 25 January 2010
Home Work appears as an 8 page feature in the February issue of Geographical (the magazine of The Royal Geographical Society) out now!
Download a pdf of the feature here: GE022-029_Photostory_Feb10
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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…
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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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