About
Mark Adams is a photographer whose practice and research is concerned with landscape representation. His work explores the cultural and environmental forces that impact upon landscapes and the personal narratives that are woven into everyday places through walking.
Over the past 20 years Adams has exhibited in galleries and museums the United States, Europe and the UK. His work appears in Paris Lit Up magazine, Next Level, Der Greif magazine and recently in the American Landscape publication 'Observations in the Ordinary'. He is member of Millennium Photographers Agency and Senior Lecturer in photography at York St John University. He currently lives in North Tyneside.
Awards & Representation
Mark was awarded the Chris Garnham Memorial Prize for photography at the Royal College of Art in 2001 . Since then he has won a number of awards including The Greater Manchester Art Prize, The International Photography Awards and the Folio Society Illustration Awards.
Exhibitions
2023: Tyne/Tees - with Tessa Bunney. Vessel Gallery, York St John University, York
2022: Photometria International Photo Festival, Ioannina Greece
2022: Carbon Borders Voices. Online exhibition.
2021: Health, Climate & Ecological Emergency Exhibition. UCL Hospital. London
2021: Self Scapes, Group Show, Dalby Arts Centre, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire
2021: Postcards from Great Britain, Touring venues across Europe.
2020: Imagining an Island [Virtual Exhibition] Taigh Chearsabhagh Museum & Arts Centre, Scotland.
2019: Observations in the Ordinary, Subjectively/Objective Gallery, Detroit, Michigan, USA
2019: Into the Woods, Group Show, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland.
2018: Self Scapes, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
2017: GM Art Prize Exhibition, Chamber of Commerce, Manchester.
2016: Waterways (Solo), Bradford Industrial Museum, Bradford, West Yorkshire
2016 Northern Light Conference, Landscape & the North, Sheffield Hallam University, Yorkshire
2016 Migration, Cross Street Arts, Wigan, UK
2015 Multiples, PS Mirabel, Manchester, UK
2015: 23:57 COP21: A response to UN Climate Change Conference. Fuse Art Space. Bradford.
2015: Lubomirov-Easton, Art Athina Festival. Athens, Greece
2015: Test Space Open, Spike Island, Bristol
2015: Third Space: Landscapes & Windows (Solo), PS Mirabel, Manchester
2014: Art in the Eastside, Billboard Installation, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2014: Seeing Beckett, Liverpool Irish Festival, John Moores University, Liverpool
2014: Seeing Beckett, Beckett in the Regions Conference. University of Chester,
2014: PS Mirabel Open Exhibition, PS Mirabel Gallery, Manchester
2014: ESPY Awards Exhibition, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2014: RPS, International Print Exhibition, Museum of Somerset, Taunton
2013: RPS, International Print Exhibition, Michael Heseltine Gallery, Banbury
2013: RPS, International Print Exhibition, The Civic, Barnsley
2013: Royal Photographic Society, International Print Exhibition, Shire Hall, Stafford
2012: Signs, Gallery 1650, Echo Park, Los Angeles, California, USA
2012: Renaissance Photography Prize, Mall Galleries, London
2011: Simulacra, Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales
2011: Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland
2011: Kodachrome, Association of Photographers Gallery, London
2010: Visual, Salford Business School, Salford
2009: SUN Awards, Matt & Phreds, Manchester
2009: Instant, Touchstones Gallery, Rochdale, Lancashire
2008: Kiosk Photographers, Urbis, Manchester
2008: New Islington Festival, Manchester
2006: Fotofest: Museum of Cultural Arts, Houston, Texas, USA
2006: Sublime: Association of Photographers Gallery, London
2005: Photography National: Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
2004: Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA
2004: Bethesda International Photography Exhibition: Fraser Gallery, Maryland, USA
1999: New York / New York, Bar Vinyl, London
1998: The Changing Face of London: Moorfield Gallery, London
Competitions, Prizes and Awards
2017 - Greater Manchester Art Prize
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
2021: Self Scapes II, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
2018: Self Scapes I, Group Show, Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire.
2016: Transition: Prints and Postcards, PS Mirabel, Manchester
Conferences
2023: Ethnography &Qualitative Research Conference. University of Trento, Italy. Research paper and presentation of practice. 'Mobile Histories, the curated path and the pilgrimtrail'
2018: Northern Light: Critical Approaches to Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography, Sheffield Hallam University, South Yorkshire Research paper and presentation of practice: 'Aphotographic exploration of walking as a challenge to perspectival representationsof landscape.'
2009: Arts and Business Seminar, City Inn Hotel, Manchester
2009: Photography & Images of the English North, Leeds Met, Yorkshire
Publications
2024 Artists Responding To ... Magazine. Contemporary Art Culture & Activism. 'Variations on a Post Industrial Landscape'. [Triptych]
2024 Coolabah Journal. Nr35. Online Journal of the Observatory.: Australian and Transnational Studies Centre. University of Barcelona, Spain. 'Work in Progress' Research paper and practice.
2023 Out of Office Volume 4 Concrete Nature, ltd edition risograph publication
2021: Landscape Stories [Online]
2021: SelfScapes, Editor and contributor. Supported by Arts Council & Forestry England. (Book)
2020: Map 6, Feature [Online]
2020: Peregrinus [Bede's Walk], A3 Press (Chapbook)
2019: Observations in the Ordinary, Subjectively Objective Publishing. (Book)
2019: A5 Magazine (Feature)
2019: Homeland (Group workshop publication)
2015: Der Greif (Feature). Issue 8.
2015: Art Monthly (Review): April Issue
2015: Shutterhub: (Blog Feature)
2014: Paris Lit Up Magazine: Autumn Issue
2014: Index: Cafe Royal Books
2014: London Independent Photography Magazine: Spring Issue
2013: London Independent Photography Magazine: Spring Issue
2012: Chased Magazine (Online)
2011: Seeance Magazine (Online)
2008: Postcard, Laurence King Publishing
2002: Next Level Photography Magazine: Edition 2 Volume 1
2001: Next Level Photography Magazine: Edition 1 Volume 2
2001: Creative Base: Online Art Magazine
2001: Output 4: International Yearbook of Graphic Design
Commissions
Routledge
Random House
Orion Books
Calder Publications
Little Brown and Company
Macmillan Publishers
Hodder and Stoughton
The Independent Newspaper (UK)
Penguin Group
Taylor and Francis
Namara Design
Harper Collins
Form Design
Peter Dyer Associates
Pentagram
Time Warner Books
Bloomsbury Publishing
Faber and Faber
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