Mark Adams
Mark Adams is an English photographer and academic. His photographic practice and research is situated within the broad context of landscape representation and involves an ongoing preoccupation with the meta-language of film and its distancing affect from observed reality. Over the past 20 years Adams has explored themes such as psychogeography, urban regeneration and Jean Baudrillard's concept of the simulacrum while photographing sites of architectural development and neglected urban or suburban environments. Much of this practice involves a process of walking as a significant factor in the creation of narrative.
Solo Exhibitions
2016/17 - Waterways, Bradford Industrial Museum, West Yorkshire.
2015 - Third Space: Landscapes & Windows, PS Mirabel, Manchester
Group Exhibitions
2018: Self Scapes, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
2017 - GM Art Prize, Chamber of Commerce, Manchester
2016 Northern Light, Exhibition and Conference, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, UK
2016 - Migration, Cross Street Arts, Wigan, UK
2015 - Multiples, PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK
2015 - 23:57 A Response to UN Climate Change Conference (COP21), Fuse, Bradford,
2015 - Lubomirov-Easton, Athens, Greece
2015 - Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol
2014 - Seeing Beckett, Liverpool Irish Festival, Liverpool John Moores University, UK
2014 - Art in the Eastside, Billboard Installation, Belfast, UK
2014 - Seeing Beckett, Contemporary Art Space, University of Chester, UK
2014 - PS Mirabel Open Exhibition, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester, UK
2014 - ESPY Award, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2014 - Royal Photographic Society , International Print Exhibition 156, Museum of Somerset, Taunton
2013 - Royal Photographic Society, International Print Exhibition 156, Michael Heseltine Gallery, Banbury
2013 - Royal Photographic Society , International Print Exhibition 156, The Civic, Barnsley
2013 - Royal Photographic Society, International Print Exhibition 156, Shire Hall , Staffs
2012 - Renaissance Photography Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2012 - Signs, 1650 Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011 - Art Moves, Torun, Poland
2011 - Kodachrome Exhibition, AOP, London
2011 - Simulacrum, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2010 - Visual Exhibition, Salford Business School, Salford, Greater Manchester
2009 - Buy Art Fair, Urbis,, Manchester
2009 - Instant: A Celebration of Polaroid , Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale, Lancashire
2009 - SUN Awards , Matt and Phreds, Manchester
2009 - Visual Exhibition, Nutmeg House, London
2008 - KIOSK Photographers Exhibition, Urbis, Manchester
2006 - Fotofest Houston, Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, Texas USA
2005 - Photo National, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
2005 - Sublime, Association of Photographers Gallery, London
2004 - Bethesda International Photography Exhibition, Fraser Gallery, Maryland, USA
2004 - Contemporary Artists Centre, North Adams, Massachusetts
Degree shows
2001 - MA Communication Art & Design, Degree Show, Royal College of Art
1995 - BA (Hons) Graphic Arts, Degree Show, Anglia Polytechnic University
Conferences & Seminars
2018: Northern Light: Critical Approaches to Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography, Sheffield Hallam University, South Yorkshire
2018: Selfscapes, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
2016: TIRI Research Conference, University of Bolton, Greater Manchester
2009 - Photography & Images of the English North, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds City Museum, Leeds, Yorkshire
Competitions, Prizes and Awards
2017 Greater Manchester Art Prize (Runner up)
2009 - SUN Awards, Shot Up North, UK
2005 - International Photography Awards, Los Angeles, USA
2001 - Chris Garnham Memorial Prize, Royal College of Art, London
Curatorial
2016: Transition: Prints and Postcards, PS Mirabel, Manchester
2018: Self Scapes, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
Publications
2015 - Der Greif Magazine, Issue 8, Germany
2015 - Art Monthly (Exhibition review)
2014 - Paris Lit Up (Magazine) Issue #2
2014 - Index - Cafe Royal Books (Book)
2014 - London Independent Photography Magazine (Spring Issue)
2013 - London Independent Photography Magazine (Spring Issue)
2012 - Chased Magazine
2011 - Seance Magazine (Online)
2008 - Postcard, Laurence King Publishing (Book)
2002 - Next Level Photography Magazine: Edition 2 Volume 1
2001 - Next Level Photography Magazine: Edition 1 Volume 2
1998 - The Independent Newspaper (UK) - Sunday Supplement
Representation
Millennium images (London)
Arcangel Images (Malaga, Spain)
IRIS Artistic Platform (Manchester)
Commissions
Routledge
Random House
Orion Books
Little Brown and Company
Macmillan Publishers
Hodder and Stoughton
Penguin Group
Taylor and Francis
Namara Design
Harper Collins
Form Design
Stylorouge
Peter Dyer Associates
Pentagram
Time Warner Books
Bloomsbury Publishing
Faber and Faber