Pau
Although I was born in
England, I've lived in Seville since 1989, and I've exploited my creative
resources since 1991 using photography, drawing, painting, texts and other techniques.
I've had individual and collective exhibitions from that year on in Seville and
Cordoba, the two most recent being collectives at the end of 1999 in Galería
Juana de Aizpuru y "99 del 99 (Artists against AIDS)" in the Convent
of Santa Inés (Seville). My subjects are imaginary architecture, the life and
loves of shop dummies and other non-human beings, and the passing of time. In
1997 I took a photograph of myself every day of the year, and the work that
came out of this-"365 Pautorretratos" or "365
Self-Pautraits"- is 27 metres long and includes the photographs
accompanied by texts from my diary and transcriptions of dreams. In the
intervention "Fuera de contexto" ("Out of context") (1997)
I distributed the 120 sentences from the Cuadernos Rubio (printed exercise
books full of surrealist ditties, Spanish children are supposed to learn to
write by copying them) all over the city of Seville, giving them a new context.
"Dentro de contexto" ("Into context") followed this,
photographs and poetry, with the collaboration of 14 more artists. Each year I
organise the "Salón de Fotografía en Mi Salón", a Bad Photography
Competition which has become more and more popular amongst a public capable of
anything. I believe that this is progress and it forms part of my struggle
"contra las modas en el arte" ("against fashions in art").
My photographic specialities are the Pinhole Camera, manual manipulation
(darkroom and otherwise) of black and white photos, colouring photographs and
self-por/pautraits. I've taught basic, specific and advanced photography,
always putting the emphasis on the fact that photographic technique only exists
as a back-up to the photographer’s ideas, and that first and foremost comes
creativity.
What our little show is made of
The Tears of a Chicken Penned In Eat Your Pet Camouflage
Common or Garden The Pit Noah’s Ark