AIR Open 2017
In August I was fortunate to be selected for the AIR Open 2017. Curated by AIR Gallery / A4 Studios, the show has 40 great pieces on display until 30th September 2017. My selected work is ‘Spring Sprung’, a metamorphogram of a difficult to fold, kinetic origami form. Find out …
All Small Things Must Evolve Slowly
My first solo exhibition of cameraless photographs, ‘All Small Things Must Evolve Slowly’, is in place at the New Schoolhouse Gallery, York, from 25th July until the end of September 2017. http://alunkirby.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/SunnyCranes.mp4 The exhibition brings together three recent working strands. Firstly, the ‘Dream/Place’ series pieces, playing on the contradictory certainty …
This Is The Sea
Three weeks ago I finished my ‘good, steady job with prospects’ at The University and leapt into the unknown… committing myself to photography. It had been a long time coming… After 20 years as a scientific researcher (see evidence here!) I left to be a home-dad to my Two Girls, …
Domino Heart
It is easy for any who have known love to feel for this domino heart – to see the ghost of it’s once whole self clinging to something that no longer exists. Or perhaps the heart is coming together, healing…. Or finding love for the first time, and the anticipation permits …
Condensed Love
It could have happened to anyone, anywhere, at any time. To me, it happened like this… Walking through Botanik, a Sunday morning most likely, visiting the hothouse, quail scurrying in the shrubbery. On a glass door between rooms, she does this. Only a quick movement of finger on glass, some …
Tao of Taos
Taos is a small, New Mexico mountain town, a base for nearby skiing. Wandering around in Spring sunshine, several residents caught the eye. Zen masters, every one. Taos Hound Beyond the dog, the decrepit pick-up, the run-down porch, the mountains. If we can learn how to see, the mountains can …
When Love Breaks Down
In the little good sunshine we had here in Yorkshire last year, I made a few significant new images. The first of these is a contact photogram, ‘When Love Breaks Down’. The image is large, for a contact photogram, at 18 x 24″ (46 x 61 cm). It was …
Dreaming in the Garden
I find a lot of inspiration in our small garden. Most of my cyanotypes over the last 5 years have used subjects taken directly from the spaces outside the front and back doors. One series which has been developing over the last couple of years has been the Dream Trees. …
Making of a Cyanotype – Part Three
Following from Parts One (preparation) and Two (set-up and exposing) this final part details finishing the exposure and developing the image. Choosing when to finish an exposure depends on artistic choices such as the desired colour and level of detail in the final image. See Part Two for more details. …