Piers Rawson

Photographer/digital artist/writer NUJ Freelance no. 22942

Non-intrusive available light documentation/reportage, landscape,
editorial, digital imaging

tel/fax +44 (0)1460 220193

e-mail: piers@scenae.co.uk 

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Professional Arts

1980-84 Stage designer (Arts Council Awards to Artists 1980, 1981, 1983; full membership of Equity designer section)
1988-95 Solo and Group photography exhibitions, and prints sold via Photographers' Gallery printroom; Artist in Schools (photography) residencies for Somerset and Devon LEAs, South West Arts, Newlyn Orion, Take Art (residency published as representing 'exemplary practice' in Arts Council Close Collaborations, 1994); photo documentation for arts organisations, theatre groups, LEAs
1998-99 Photographer in residence: documentary and digital photography public arts commission, Tacchi Morris Arts Centre, Taunton
1999 Flow images selected for Digital Visions tour, ruuural venues in Wales
1999 Captive Ark (digital images) exhibited at Plymouth Arts Centre
1999 Digital images published by South West Arts in Proof # 9
2000 Community Photographer, Landlines project, Beaford Centre, Devon
2000-01 Photographer in Residence at South West Arts, for Year of the Artist
2002 Commission from South West Arts Marketing: digital documentation of participants/audiences of arts in the South West
2002-05 Photographer for Phase II, Parrett Trail
2003 Digital photography residency 'Changing Lives', Royal Photographic Society/Somerset LEA
2004 Digital photography landscape commission/exhibition, 'Pastures New' Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton
2004 Public art billboard commission for Somerset Art Weeks

Editorial/design/publication

1987 Publish thesis, British Archeological Reports (International Series), Oxford
1992-94 Editor of Light Reading , South West Arts funded photography newsletter
1993 Research and edit South West Arts Photography Directory
1994-95 Founding editor of Photo-Art International (5 issues) fine art photography magazine
1995-96 South West Arts, member of photography publishing advisory group, supervising Arts Council funded Available Light imprint
1996 Edited Sculpture by Philip Rawson, University of Pennsylvania Press (1997)
1997-98 Edited and revised Art and Time by Philip Rawson (2005, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press)
1998 Pre-publication review work for A & C Black, Publishers
1999-01 Design/edit bimonthly brochure/website for Plymouth Arts Centre
2001 365-Year of the Artist in the South West - images + CD-ROM archive with digital work, South West Arts
2003 Photography for Fresh Today (Arnolfini/Art+Power)

Teaching

1979 Durham University/WEA, extramural Art teacher
1980-88 Community Education Art tutor (weekly during term time), Somerset County Council; Exeter University Extramural Dept. (25 sessions); Co-director Community Education Youth Theatre and LEA residential Youth Theatre courses (6 years); numerous photo courses taught for children, adults, teachers
1999-00 Photography tutor, Open College of the Arts

Advisory/voluntary

1989-94 Member of Council of Management, Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre, Taunton
1990-91 Member of Arts Advisory Board, Television South West
1992-94 Chair, South West Independent Photographers' Association
1994-96 Management group member, Somerset Arts Forum
1994-2003 South West Arts, Photography Adviser
 

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