Biography
Richard Page is a photographic artist based in Manchester and is currently Programme Leader of BA (Hons) Photography at Manchester Metropolitan University. He received the Jerwood Photography Award in 2004 and his artist’s monograph What We Already Know was published by Ffotogallery in 2007. Employing a variety of approaches, his work considers how space is implicitly bound up with history, memory, and our psychological relationship with place. Richard has exhibited widely thoughout the UK and abroad, including shows in London, Cardiff and Germany. Most recently his work featured in Diffusion: The Cardiff International Festival of Photography for which he curated and edited the exhibition and publication From Common Differences. His work was included in JAP Alexander's Perspectives on Place (2015) and has been published in Portfolio magazine, the Guardian, Source, Art Review, Artists Newsletter and Royal Academy magazines. Richard is currently working on a project in Spain, The Dialogue Of The Dogs, which was exhibited at the Francesca Maffeo Gallery in 2017.
Education:
2003 : MA Photographic Studies - University of Westminster, London
1996 : BA (Hons) Film & Photography - University of Wales, Newport
Lecturing Positions:
2013 - present : Programme Leader BA Photography - Manchester Metropolitan University
2002 - 2013 : Senior Lecturer - Swansea Metropolitan University
2002 - 2009 : Associate Lecturer - Cardiff University
1997 - 2005 : Part-time Lecturer - University of Wales, Newport
Awards:
2006 : Arts Council of Wales, Project Grant
2004 : The Jerwood Photography Award 2004
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2017 : The Dialogue of the Dogs : Francesca Maffeo Gallery, Essex
2007 : What We Already Know : Ffotogallery, Cardiff
1999 - 2004 : Landscapes from the Tryweryn Valley (touring exhibition) :
The Royal Photographic Society, Bath
Altena Museum & Art Gallery, Germany
Wrexham Arts Centre
Williamson Museum & Art Gallery, Birkenhead
Maidstone Museum & Art Gallery
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2017 : Via : Francesca Maffeo Gallery, Essex
2017 : Echo Chamber : Bankley Gallery, Manchester
2016 : Process : Bankley Gallery, Manchester
2015 : Still Moving : Vertical Gallery, Manchester
2013 : From Common Differences (Diffusion: Cardiff International Photography Festival) : St David's Hall, Cardiff
2008 : Unreliable Truths : Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
2008 : Fantasy / Denial : Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2008 : If We Build It, They Will Come : Gallery 39, Cardiff
2007 : Interruptions in Time : The London Gallery West, London
2005 : Coagulation : Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
2005 : The Jerwood Photography Award 2004 : The Jerwood Space, London,
touring to Open Eye, Liverpool, The Cooper Gallery, Dundee& Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery
2004 : Twenty Shadows : Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, Essex
2003 : Blind Site : The Hanbury Gallery, London, touring to the London Gallery West
2002 : Ha Ha: Margam Revisited : Ffotogallery, Cardiff
2002 : But still… : Gallery 39, Cardiff
2001 : A470 : Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, touring to Chapter, Cardiff
2001 : Coast : ArtSway Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Hampshire
2000 : Afon : River : Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno
1998 : Viewpoints : Artsway Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Hampshire
Selected Publications:
Page, R. et al (eds). From Common Differences (Swansea: SMU, 2013)
Chalmers, G (ed). New Light - The Jerwood Photography Award, 2003-08 (Edinburgh: Portfolio, 2009)
Cocks, M. Evans, JP (eds). Unreliable Truths (Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, 2008)
Richard Page – What We Already Know (Cardiff: Ffotogallery, 2007)
Coppock, C. (ed). Ha Ha: Margam Revisited (Cardiff: Ffotogallery / Seren, 2002)
Richard Page – Tirluniau o Gwm Tryweryn (Wrexham: Wrexham Arts Centre, 2000)
Barlow, M. (ed). Afon : River (Llandudno: Oriel Mostyn Gallery, 2000)
Published Essays:
Page, R. 'Looking for the Black-box: European Documentary Photography' Darwin Magazine (Vol 6. 2014)
Page, R. 'The Perfect Distance' in Ryan Moule: Latent Frequencies (London: Bookworks, 2014)
Page, R. ‘To see a landscape as it is when I am not there’ Blown (Vol 1. 2009)
Other Published Work:
Palaces for the People - Prefabs in Post War Britain by Greg Stevenson (London: Batsford, 2003)
Flux Magazine (#23 Feb/March 2001)
Newport - A Day in the Life (Newport: County Council Arts Development, 2000)
Quality Britain - The British Embassy Magazine in Japan (Jan. 2000)