Selected Solo Exhibitions

Tulpa. Marina Post Office Tearooms, St. Leonards On Sea. October - November 2010
The Edge Of England. McCarrons, St Leonards On Sea, East Sussex, November 2009
Word On The Street. Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel. October 2004 - January 2005
19Hz. The Spitz Bistro, London E1. October 2004
Antinomy. The Rivington Gallery, London EC2. 2003. The Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, 2003
Lines of Desire. The Space, London. June - July 2003
Spectacle. The Eye Company, London. 2002
Last Minute. The Alex public house, Victoria Park London. 2002
Recent Photographs. The Alex public house, London. 2002
britart.com. Foyer exhibition, London. 2000
Paul Mark Hatton Jewellery. London. 2000
Portals and Spirits. The Clerks House, Shoreditch. 1999
Freuds Cafe Gallery. London W1. 1992
Brattell In Poland. Polish Social & Cultural Association Gallery, London W6. 1990

Selected Group Exhibitions

Telling Stories: Hastings. Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. Autumn/Winter 2012. Funded by Arts Council England.
Christmas Exhibition. Lucy Bell Fine Art. December 2011.
Interim Projects Show. Photo hub group. Hastings Arts Forum. October 2011. Funded by Arts Council England.
Pushing Print Open 2011. The Pie Factory, Margate. October 2011.
Telling Stories: Margate. Marine Studios Margate. Part of Pushing Print Fringe. October 2011. Funded by Arts Council England.
London Road. One Cafe & Gallery, London Road St. Leonards On Sea. Part of Coastal Currents 2011. September 2011.
Gallery Photographers Exhibition. Lucy Bell Fine Art. July, August 2011.
Fillet 08/10. F-ISH gallery. Lens based works taken from the first two years of programming. February 2011.
They’re Not Laughing Now. F-ISH gallery Hastings. Exhibitor & curator. October 2010.
Summer Exhibition 2010. Lucy Bell Fine Art Photography, St Leonards On Sea. August 2010
Photos With Words. PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont Photography Workplace USA. July 2010
IPG’s Greatest Hits. The Independent Photographers Gallery Battle, December 2009
Indian Summer. Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, September 2009
Conversations...From The Edge. Photo Hub Group, St Mary In The Castle Hastings, September 2009
Jack In The Green. Hastings Arts Forum, St. Leonards on Sea. May 2008, 2009, 2010
Shadowlands. South Coast Artists. Arts Forum, St. Leonards on Sea, March 2008
Spirit Of The Season. The Independent Photographers Gallery, Battle, Dec 2007 - Jan 2008
Regeneration. SoCo Gallery, Hastings, March 2007
Seaside. Conquest Hospital, Hastings, August - November 2006
South Coast Artists Spring Show. SoCo Gallery Hastings, May 2006
Landscape Through The Lens. SoCo Gallery Hastings, January 2006
War! The Rivington Gallery, London. June 2003
Looking at London. The Prince’s Foundation, London. 2002
London College of Fashion Faculty Show. London W1, 2001
Cordwainers College Faculty Exhibitions. 1997, 1998, 1999
Spitalfields, A Last Lingering Look. The Clerks House, Shoreditch. 1999
Smalls. The Clerks House, Shoreditch, 1998
Camerawork Open Exhibition. London E2, 1990

Selected Events

University of Brighton Media Enterprise Centre. The Big Photography Debate. Chair. August 2011.
Projection Space. The Electric Palace, Hastings. Screening of "Lampshade Making In Ontario". May 2011.
Jawdance Audio Poetry Competition. Rich Mix Centre London E1. Projection of photographs. May 2011.
London International Documentary Festival. "The Invisible City". April 2010.
Four Corners. London E2. Photoforum. Speaker, 2004.

Print Sales

Eyestorm
Lucy Bell Fine Art Photography

Community & Education: Selected Projects & Events

PhotoHastings.org. "For photography in Hastings & East Sussex”. News & resources. Editor & founder. 2009-present.
Towner. Artist and Practioner Pool 2011/12. Working with the Gallery's education and outreach programmes.
De La Warr Pavilion. Young Photographers. A summer school for 8-12 year olds. August 2011.
De La Warr Pavilion. Exhibitions Interpretation Team 2010-11. Creating events to accompany The Pavilion’s exhibitions. See the DLWP Thinking Aloud blog
On Arrival. Helenswood School Hastings/Creative Partnerships. A "Change School" project with Yr7 pupils. 2011.
Pier Support. Fundraising exhibition with photography students from Sussex Coast College. May/June 2011.
Artist Rooms: Robert Mapplethorpe. Towner Gallery Eastbourne. Workshops with Willingdon Community School in conjunction with the exhibition creating content for the launch of the Towner youth community website. Sept/Oct 2010.
Voices and Visions. University of Brighton School of Education Centenary Conference. Workshop leader. September 2010.
The Helenswood Newsroom. Helenswood School Hastings/Creative Partnerships. Working with Yr 9 students to create The Helenswood Reporter, a printed & online newspaper. With journalist Jane Hughes & designers Playne Design. June 2010.
From This Point On. Hastings Arts Forum, St. Leonards On Sea. NCFE certificate (photography) final exhibition. Sussex Coast College Hastings, May 2010.
The Dark Monarch. Towner Gallery Eastbourne. Workshops (film & photography) and gallery tour to accompany the Tate exhibition “The Dark Monarch. Magic and Modernity in British Art”. 2010.
Conference for Art & Design in Primary & Special Schools 2010. East Sussex & Brighton & Hove Councils. Speaker.
Heroes For The Future. Workshops in East Sussex schools. Directed by Rachael Roser. Supported by the Shackleton Foundation. 2009.
Working Our Way 2. De La Warr Pavilion/Creative Partnerships. A project in eight Bexhill primary schools to create an educational toolkit and an exhibition for the De La Warr Pavilion. Supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation. 2008.
Zoom Group. White Rock Theatre Gallery, Hastings. National Diploma in Photography final exhibition. Hastings College 2006.
Lea Rivers Trust. Community workshops and photographic competition leading to touring exhibition and postcards.
2003 & 2006.
Bridie Productions. Photography of theatre projects in Tower Hamlets secondary schools. 2005, 2006.
Jerwood Charity. Jerwood Prison and Community Art Award 2004. Member, judging panel.
Community TV Trust. Photographic workshops in primary & secondary schools in Southwark, enabling students to produce their own content for the Southwark.TV website. 2003, 2004.
Groundwork Southwark. Photographic workshops at Poet’s Corner Estate, Camberwell Green using disposable cameras and leading to an exhibition as part of Black History Month 2003.
Big Arts Week. “Captions That Rhyme” Stepney Greencoat Primary School 2002. Large format Polaroids, scanned and projected, of children dressed as characters from the rhymes that they had written.
Resonant Frequencies. Whitechapel Gallery foyer exhibition of monochrome photographs. Sponsored by Keyphoto. Cordwainers College, 1999.
Dreams Made Flesh. Whitechapel Gallery foyer exhibition of toy camera images. Sponsored by Ilford. Cordwainers College, 1998.
Salle des Fetes, Suresnes, France. Photography exhibition in Hackney’s twin town. Cordwainers College. 1997.
Hackney Visual Artists Mentoring scheme. Mentor. 1997.

Employment

1986 - present. Self-employed photographer. Fine art, portrait, editorial and advertising photography. Exhibiting and selling prints, primarily from darkroom based practice. Working to commission for national newspapers (including The Sunday Telegraph over a 14 year period under picture editor Nigel Skelsey), magazines, agencies, artists & craftspeople.
2006 - present. Part time lecturer in photography, Sussex Coast College (previously Hastings College), teaching analogue and digital practice & theory. Adult courses & A levels in 2010/11. Course Leader, National Diploma Photography, 2006-7.
2006 - 2007. Part time tutor, Bexhill College, East Sussex. AS, A2 photography and graphics, 1st Diploma media (photography and web design).
2000 - 2005. Associate lecturer in photography at The London College of Fashion, working with Foundation and foreign exchange students. Teaching analogue and digital photography, monochrome printing, Photoshop. Group tutor.
1996 - 2000. Visiting tutor, part time, in photography at Cordwainers College Hackney. Working mainly in the art & design department with Foundation, BTEC and GAD students.
1995 - 1996. Photographer, writer and co-editor, ON Magazine, London.
Student, BTEC Creative Computing (digital arts), Tower Hamlets College.
1984 - 1985. Junior Photographer, Dawson Strange Photography, Cobham, Surrey - supporting a team of three specialist photographers (social, commercial location and commercial studio).
1983. Social photographer and colour printer, Photoworld Monaco. Photographing and printing portraits and conference pictures for conventions, business and social events.
1981 - 1982. Photographer and writer for Breakout, an independent monthly art and culture magazine, Liverpool.