About Mimeses North


Mimeses North is a collective of Northern, fine art
photographers who have come together in order to enhance individual interpretations
of our relationships with the world in which we live, exploring relationships of
fellow humans, animals, interactions with our landscape, across to all things
‘other’.

Mimeses North provides mutual support and critique
along with opportunities for specific collaborations, mounting group
exhibitions on their core theme.

In an increasingly competitive art world, the
collective is a way of opening and maintaining the conversation between artists
and an art loving public. By combining insights and debate with defined
collaboration in work, Mimeses North intends that their combined output will
always add up to more than the sum of parts.

Wednesday 22 May 2013

 
 Forthcoming Evening Seminar
4th June, 2013
6-8pm
 
Mimeses North invite you to an informal evening of discussion and debate to investigate the role of collectives in artistic and photographic practice in the North.
 
Two major Northern collectives, Newcastle based Amber and Wideyed from Darlington will talk about their respective collectives and what it means to be a contemporary artist/practitioner working within their group.
 
Writer Graeme Rigby, is a member of Amber film & photography collective who first wrote for Amber developing Side Gallery exhibition texts for Chris Killip’s Askam & Skinningrove (1982), John Davies’ Durham Coalfield (1983) and Peter Fryer’s Coke to Coke (1989). With Peter Fryer he also developed the documentary book Peaceable Kingdoms (1992). He became a member of Amber in the late 1990s and has been part of the team developing Shooting Magpies (2005), The Pursuit of Happiness (2008), Today I’m With You (2010) and the feature film project Between the Mud and the Farthest Star.
 
Wideyed is an arts collective that undertakes international projects and creative collaborations leading to the production and innovative dissemination of new works. Since founding it in February 2008, its photographers have played active roles in photography festivals, received awards and bursaries, worked on commission, and exhibited from England to India. In 2011, Wideyed was commissioned to work on 'Mapping the Flaneur'  at Format Photo Festival in Derby.
 
The discussion will explore and evaluate differing successful models and how practitioners can develop their own personal practice within a group. In a time of limited economic movement does a collective have greater chance of navigating the storm than individual practitioners?
 
 
 
The evening: Tuesday, 4th June begins at 6pm with welcome refreshments followed at 6.30pm by presentations ending with an informal questions and answer opportunity at 7.30pm - 8pm chaired by Claire Cooper and Walter Lewis of Mimeses North.
 
The venue:  Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland, Chester Road, Sunderland. SR1 3SD.
 
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E - mail info@mimeses-north.eu or visit the seminar event page to reserve your place.
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Location: The Northern Centre of Photography, University of Sunderland, Chester Road, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear SR1 3SD, UK