Tim Watson

watsonvalis@aol.com

Statement

Photography has been the principle medium with which Tim has worked since studying art at university. It’s initial appeal the immediacy, Tim regards the photographer’s art as curatorial - a collector of images rather than creator. As such his work generally consists of series’, groups of photographs linked aesthetically and thematically such as previous explorations of derelict buildings both at home and in Cyprus.

The work featured here, although linked thematically by a focus on nature, is really far more concerned with the formal elements of the image than it is the subject matter. Through enlargement beyond their natural scale these images take on an alien quality that invites the viewer to explore afresh the texture and form of the object. Sharp shifts in focus cause the images to blur into abstraction, only for certain details to stand out in sudden clarity. For Tim, this exposes the camera, not as a substitute for the human eye but a different way of looking at - and recording - the world around us. 

Tim would consider this project to be in it’s early stages still and these images the first produced to really capture these concerns and open new lines of enquiry… not mention satisfying as images in their own right.


Education
Postgraduate Diploma in Fine Art Cyprus College of Art, Limassol, Cyprus
BA (hons) Creative Arts Bath Spa University, Bath, England

Additional qualifications
ASET award in Post-16 Teaching (Art & Design)
ASET award in Exhibition Organisation

Group exhibitions
2008 / 09 Off The Shelf
Saltburn Artists’ Projects
Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Yorkshire, England
2008 Use Your Peripheral Vision to Make A Decision
The Lloyd Gill Gallery
Weston-Super-Mare, Somerset, England
2007 Abandoned Chairs by Paul Kuzemczak
Norwich Arts Centre
Norwich, Norfolk, England
(featured work also published in an accompanying art book)
2006 Summer/end of year exhibition
The Limassol Studios
Limassol, Cyprus