Richard Dickson Photography
Another artist exhibiting at the Green & Stone event has organised a shared exhibition in Arundel over the Easter weekend.
The theme is the landscape and specifically inspired by the South Downs. The exhibition has been organised by Nathaniel Fowles an artist also living by the Downs inviting other Sussex based artists.
I will be showing six works from my South Downs series.
Another print from the series, South Downs Rugged Beauty, has been selected for this exhibition at Green and Stone Gallery, January 19th – February 20th 2026 – @thegalleryatgreenandstone
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From over 6500 entries I have been selected for this exhibition. The work is one of the argyrotype prints from my series South Downs – Rugged Beauty and was selected by Dr Chris Stephens. This is the second time I have had works selected for this prestigious annual event. The exhibition runs from 14th – 23rd November at the
Mall Galleries, The Mall, SW1 5AH,London. @INGDiscerningEye
I am very pleased with this as it means the works from this series have now been selected for exhibition in the UK and US.
This year two works have again been chosen for exhibition by Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati (https://www.manifestgallery.org/) in their annual small works callout. I am pleased that the chosen argyrotype prints are from my series shown in 2024 at ArtWave in Sussex.
This print was selected for a call from Loosen Art in Rome. The exhibition title was ‘Scenes from Real Life’. I like that subject matter, seeking images often with a counterpoint of ordinary human activity whatever the surrounding environment – Finding Space. In this case the family enjoying the beach side with the fog surrounded, decommissioned nuclear power station in the background.
The digital images posted don’t show the subtle tones of the final prints. It is difficult to show a true representation of how the final prints look either by scanning them or digitally photographing them. These are digital photos taken with a flash. Still not very good but will get some done in a studio geared for product shots.
I will be exhibiting prints from the series Rugged Beauty, taken on the South Downs (see post South Downs – Rugged Beauty…) at this years Art Wave Festival organised at locations around Lewes.
These prints have been created using a modified Victorian process, argyrotype, with hand coated paper and produces a fine, detailed print with a log tonal scale. It is an intensive, involved procedure but suits the subject and method I used to obtain and interpret the images.
Also showing works that have been selected for exhibitions in open calls internationally and at home, some listed in previous posts.
@artwavefestival
Another Midwest Center selection, this for the Likeness exhibition November 2023.
https://www.mwcponline.com/likeness.html
I want to do more portraits but my style is very much informal, impromptu where I think you can get real essence of a person being in that moment.
Manifest Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA is an extraordinary organisation. Not just a gallery exhibiting works from open calls and solo exhibitions, they are an arts education establishment with a broad and inclusive outlook. It encompasses a Drawing centre that explores and promotes, unusually together, drawing and photography and have a residency program. Also, unusually, they have a prolific publication department producing a huge annual of all the year’s exhibitions, 375 pages for the last one. They also produce, every three years, on a rotating basis an annual of photography, drawing, and painting respectively. The quality of these products is superb.
For the exhibitions all the works are judged in a rigorous blind jury process prioritising quality reducing any curatorial bias or juror prejudice. In the latest season 17 publication there were 41 separate exhibitions of 567 works in total from 319 artists and over 11,000 submissions.
I may be biased as my first engagement with Manifest was being selected for the last Photography Annual, then a year later for the opening round of the season 17 exhibitions and just this year have had two works again selected. It has presented me with an opportunity to showcase some of my work with an affirmation of their quality. I am extremely proud of this especially in the knowledge of their blind jury process.
My work is photography based, often using or abusing different materials and processes. I think that photography in the US is taken more seriously and accepted as an art form. All of the works I have had accepted by Manifest have been submitted in the UK without success.
What I like most about exhibitions is not necessarily seeing my own work, I know it so well, but viewing it in relation with the others on show, appreciating their work and in the context of the exhibition theme.
I have had two works selected for exhibition in this years Manifest Gallery Magnitude Seven show, in Cincinnati USA, for small works. The show is of 27 works from 15 artists out of 352 entries from 101 artists. The exhibition is on from June 2nd to 30th.
I am especially happy with these two has they originated from the vintage glass plates I exposed 98 years after manufacture. One is a direct contact print of the plate via the argyrotype process (similar to all hand coated prints like platinum/palladium) and the other a photopolymer intaglio print mixing modern technology with old methods.
