Julia
Abstracting Reality
An exhibition of limited edition creative photography at CreateBolton Last year I was delighted to be asked by CreateBolton, a Bolton-based community arts charity, to be their guest artist. Entitled Abstracting Reality, it’s combines an exploration of creative photography techniques with imagery inspired by my keen interest in place and sense of location. “I greatly
Music, Instruments and Musicians
I’m delighted to say that my image of Nick Cave that started out as entry to the SheClicks February 2025 Monthly Challenge with the theme of Music, Instruments and Musicians, saw its way into the SheClicks Monthly Challenge Gallery exhibited at The Photography & Video Show at the NEC, 12th-17th March 2026. The gallery was
Writing the North
The Centre for Literature and Community at the University of Greater Manchester has embarked on an exciting project to document northern writing and writers, creating an online resource entitled Writing the North. This features a writing wall where you can explore contributions from people across the Bolton area so I’m extremely pleased that my photograph
Impressions of Louvre Couture
I was lucky enough to visit the “Louvre Couture. Objets D’Art, Objets De Mode” exhibition in June 2025, so i feel this blog has been too long in the making as that was almost a year a go as I write! Curated by Olivier Gabet, it features some of the most stunning 20th and 21st-century
Orange
I submitted shots to the SheClicks challenge for April 2026 on the time of Orange and thought I should start sharing these challenge images on my website. The above image is a response to a poem entitled “A Greeting” that I created as a part of the Multiple Exposures of Poetry workshop, led by Janina
Harvest of Visions
It was a real pleasure to receive an invitation in mid-July to exhibit two photographs in the Summer Art Exhibition at the BL6 Studios in Horwich Bolton, appearing alongside some very talented local artists. Organised by gallery owners and artists, Julia Entwistle and John Bentley, it launches on 26th July.. The preparation for this has
Journeys in Place
An exhibition of photography at FaMAS, Bolton, 9th 10th May I was so delighted to be invited by the FaMAS artists to be a guest artist in their May 2025 Open Studio event, so I thought I’d record my selection of photographs in a blog post. FaMAS (Falcon Mill Artist Studios) is a vibrant and
Bolton Observed
To commemorate Bolton as the Greater Manchester Town of Culture, Live from Worktown revisited ideas from our Mass Observation work last year to produce an illustrated anthology of writing and photography, compiled from submissions from local people. Bolton Observed – an open call to the Bolton public for contemporary observations of everyday life in the
A Roma Rehearsal
On the 12th May, I was pleased to be invited to meet a Roma group who get together every Sunday at Bolton’s Socialist Club, thanks to a collaboration between the club and a charity called KaskoSan. I’d been promoting a Live from Worktown project for National Diary Day so was keen to meet with a
Shooting Bolton Creatives
I recently organised a photo-shoot, starting with a call-out to Bolton creatives, in order to produce a promotional shot for a project led by local art and heritage group, Live from Worktown. The project, to reinvigorate Bolton’s participation in the 12th May Mass Observation (MO) Day, has its roots in a ground-breaking 1930s ethnographic research
