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Artworks, Published Work,
Exhibitions:
2009:
1. Fine Art Photography book
Networks released, November
9th. Published by Heavy Everywhere®, the book features 92 color plates of
recent work, and a lengthy introduction on digital exposure and manipulation
techniques, including HDR and image-fusion.
2. Presented a workshop on
digital spherical photography in conjunction with
Spheron VR, at The
Workstation, Sheffield, as part of
Digital Week. The workshop
included full demos, explanations and hands-on experience with the
SpheroCam HDR panoramic
camera.
3. Nine Heavy Everywhere®
wall-art canvases hung at
Dosanj luxury Indian
 restaurant, West One Plaza, Sheffield, from October for six months.
4. Major exhibition of old and
new work:
Blank Screen Syndrome at The Workstation, Sheffield, July 23rd -
August 28th, 2009. Features album-cover CGI work,
Wide
Area Network panoramic photos, and selections from the
Heavy Everywhere® fractal art
and design range. Also gave a lecture on career to date, and techniques used
to create the artwork.
 5. Retrospective exhibition of
album cover work and other CG images:
Blue Sky Thinking, at The
Forum, Sheffield, April 19th - May 10th 2009. The exhibition is also
included in the programme for
Sensoria Festival, which runs
from April 24th-29th 2009.
 6.
Art print image created for Eve Wood's film on Sheffield music
The Beat Is The Law.
The image features a fictitious cutting lathe for inscribing musical data
onto millstones.
2008:
'Rudolph the Red-Nosed Raconteur'
Frog and Snail image shown at
The Forum, Sheffield as part of the Christmas
art exhibition.
 2006:
Joint Exhibition
Imagine at The
Chartreuse de Valbonne, Provence, France, with Fred de Fred of
The Lovers. Featuring
large-scale fractal fabric pieces, 3D computer-generated images on glass,
and video/animation with environmental musical installations. My CG image
on glass, 'Oui et Non'
was also selected for the
Brazil render gallery.
2005:
1. Major feature on Warp
Records design style and album covers in the Japanese design bible,
Idea Magazine. Features
superb reproductions of all Phil Wolstenholme's Warp artwork.
2. Phil Wolstenholme's Warp artwork featured
in a whole chapter of Rob
Young's book
Warp Unlimited.
1996: 3 large-format computer prints shown at ‘LoveBytes’ Digital Media
Festival, Sheffield.
1995: Commissioned to construct 40-min. video, utilising
CG modelling, stills and animation
for British composer Gavin Bryars, used in orchestral concert performances of ‘Sinking of
the Titanic’, one of Bryars’ most well-known compositions.
The video was projected as part of a large themed presentation of the piece in
Belgium and Japan during 1995.
_Cover01_tiny.jpg) 1994:
1. Produced and Co-directed
(Motion), a 40-min. computer
animation/music video for Warp Records. First full-length completely 3D computer-generated
music video released by an independent record label.
Review
2. Received Silver Disc for contributions to cover artwork for The Orb album,
UFORB.
1992: Album cover design for Warp Records'
Pioneers of the Hypnotic
Groove published in Roger Dean’s Album Cover
Album.
1987: Solo Photographic exhibition,
Network, at the Crucible Theatre,
Sheffield, which expanded on themes developed during my degree course.
1984-1986: Member of
Fabricata Illuminata, a multimedia group, producing video, sound,
film and photography as components for live performance works.
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As Fabricata Illuminata,
performed
The Bell Monitor at the Leadmill, Sheffield, March 1985.
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FI then produced a 40-min piece about the Inner-city riots of the 80’s,
This
Heat, which was performed live at the Zap Club, Brighton, and the Midland Group,
Nottingham, as part of the ‘8 Days of Live Art’ Review Oct. 1985.
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FI performed
Potlatch, our final piece, detailing the incongruities of live
art when viewed through a Situationist perspective at the ICA,
London, May 1986.
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Fabricata Illuminata also developed a low-cost binaural (3D) recording system for soundworks,
and utilised these techniques in live and recorded pieces.
I subsequently produced solo sound-pieces using similar techniques for assessment in final-year degree show.
Business and Employment:
 2005-present:
Founded
Heavy
Everywhere Ltd. to publish radically new fractal fabric designs for fashion and
other products. Currently working on a variety of projects for commercial
outlets, including a new range of luxury Cruisewear.
 1999-2004:
Worked for
Lightwork Design Ltd., and
then offshoot company
Kazoo 3D PLC, (which later merged with ZOO Digital Group PLC)
in Sheffield, Great Britain, in a variety of roles in the 3D content sector. I worked on the Kazoo software team for three years as 3D Content Supervisor, producing and commissioning a vast library of thousands of 3D models and characters.
I defined standards for modellers, both freelance and in-house, supervised
overall model production, and I also built a large proportion of the 3D model library
myself. Additionally, I designed and presented demonstrations of ‘Kazoo’ software at
SIGGRAPH,
New Orleans in 2000 as part of the International sales team.
I subsequently managed a development team at
ZOO Digital Group, producing its successor,
Home Creative Studio, a consumer-level software package for image-creation, using 3D models and photographs. This significantly increased the product's capabilities, and in addition to
writing the product documentation and localisation, I also designed and produced all the
website content, visualisations and tutorials.
 1996-99: Worked for
Second Nature Industries as part of the
3-man development team of
HyperMatter. This was a soft-object dynamics plug-in for the popular 3D
animation package 3D Studio MAX®, which won three awards in its first year of
sale, including Computer Graphics World’s ‘Product of the Year’.
Responsibilities included alpha and beta-testing of HyperMatter code, production of
software demos and tutorials, and company website design and maintenance. Additionally, I provided technical support for
users, authorising users and maintaining user databases, and production of promotional
material, both image-based and textual.
I also designed and presented demonstrations of HyperMatter on the Kinetix booth at
SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, and Digital Media
World, London in 1997,
and then again at SIGGRAPH in Orlando, Florida, in 1998.
You can see the archived HyperMatter website and demos here:
HMWebsite
1992-1994: Part-time lecturer in Computer Graphics, HND Design Diploma, Norton
College, Sheffield. Taught basic image creation using Amiga Paint packages, and rudimentary use of 3D
software.
1988-Present: Freelance computer artist
and photographer. Self-taught.
Produce computer-generated art and video for commercial and
not-so-commercial usage.
Produced stills and animated work
for many commercial projects, mainly album cover work, poster designs and
video. Also produce panoramic landscapes and other photography
projects. Proficient on all formats of camera from 35mm to large-format,
to a
Spheron HDR
360° panoramic camera.
Album cover clients include:
The Orb,
808 State,
Warp Records,
Designers
Republic,
The Shamen,
Sony
Music,
Frogman Records,
Strictly
Rhythm,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Richard H Kirk,
The Lovers.
1986-1987: Part-time lecturer in Darkroom Practice, HND Design Diploma, Castle
College, Sheffield.
1981-1982: Assistant Art Technician, Rotherham Art College. Main responsibility was
maintaining the Photography Studio and darkroom.
Education:
1983-1986: BA (Hons.) Degree in Fine Art (Communications). Sheffield Hallam
University.
1982-83:
‘A’ Levels in Photography and Art, Rotherham College of Arts and
Technology.
Other Skills:
Excellent written and communication skills,
3D modelling/lighting/rendering, website design, image manipulation and
processing.
Wide
experience of different visual media, including Painting, Photography (film
and digital up to 360° panoramic), Video, Sound Recording
(studio and remote, inc. Binaural), and Non-linear digital editing.
Can print black-and-white photographs to
exhibition standard.
Experience of live performance,
software demonstrations and public speaking. Capable
(non-qualified) teaching skills in known subjects.
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