BIOGRAPHY:
* BA Hons Fine Art (2:1) University of Central Lancashire
COMMISSIONS:
* Marsh Farm Futures
40 metre Vinyl Banner created to cover empty shop hoardings
* Our Story
20 metre Vinyl Cinema Hoarding designed to cover derelict cinema
* Barclays Wall Art
Four artworks commissioned for Barclays HQ
* Book Illustration, Nathan Publishers
Image created for Agatha Christie book which depicts the murder scene.
* 18 Photographic images, including a 45m x 3m work on glass. Allen & Overy, London.
Allen & Overy moved into their new head office in London, a Norman Foster designed building
* Front / Back DPS for Q Magazine
Q Magazine commissioned this double page spread for the front and back cover of the Guilty Pleasures issue
* Photographic DPS for Honda Magazine
Honda commissioned this image as a double page spread for their magazine Dream. The images depicts a Feature Article about the cleaning of the New York Hudson River
* Photographic Wall Art for Starbucks
Starbucks commissioned this piece of wall art to depict the main streets and attractions of Blackpool for their new coffee house in the centre of Blackpool's main shopping district
* Photographic Wall Art, Mid Essex Hospital Services NHS Trust
Commissioned by the Mid Essex Hospital Trust to reflect their onsite architecture and the local community. The final work was for a permanent feature in a new ward
* Photographic Wall Art, L & D Hospital NHS Trust
Commissioned by the L&D Hospital Trust to reflect their onsite architecture and the local community. The final artwork was for a permanent feature in the main entrance to the hospital
* Two photographic images, Greenhill McCarron for The London Studios
Commissioned by Ad Agency Greenhill McCarron for their client London Studios. The images which were used in magazines, as posters and reflected the studios London location and the faciilities and post production capabilities available for hire
* Photographic Wall Art, Carling
Commissioned by Carling to reflect the city of Liverpool for a new bar opening in the city centre
* Photographic Wall Art on Carnaby for Shaftesbury plc
Commissioned by Shaftsbury to reflect their property portfolio in the Carnaby Street area of London. The final piece hangs in the head office foyer in Central London
* Photographic lightbox, Carling
Commissioned by Carling to reflect the town of Hull for a new bar opening in the town centre
* Photographic Wall Art on Manchester, Bruntwood (Manchester Commonwealth Games Partner)
Wall art on display in the head office foyer. Reflects their property portfolio in Manchester
* 5.7m Photographic Wall Art, Harrison Ince for JD Wetherspoon
Commissioned as wall art for a new bar opened in Staffordshire
* Photographic image, Pictons Solicitors
Commissioned as a wall piece for their foyer
* Five photographic images on Rome for Pizza Express at Gatwick Airport
Pizza Express sent me to Rome to gather images to create a series of large scale prints for the walls of their new restaurant in Gatwick Airport
* Digital Installation / High Rise Projection, LBC
Professional projections from a building roof onto a high rise building
* Two photographic banners , LBC
Presented as vinyl banners
* Five photographic images on contemporary village life, SBDC
Presented as a series of postcards
About Cityscapes
With the aspiration’s of the architect and the meticulousness of the town planner, the consequence of this space – our space - is destined to be concluded by us - the inhabitant’s. We create continuously this city in our own minds and image’s, unleashing our daily iconographic creation’s through London’s arteries - adding to the popular mythology.
The cities topography undulates, a mass of effaced structure’s, retold with every new sunrise and sunset. Each of our stories recreated on top of each other, layering our live’s in the same manner the structure’s surrounding our geography begin to layer themselves, trapped in a one way system, into a world deemed in disarray.
Our live’s, these map’s, these space’s, form a constitution contained in a perpetual flux, not due to the structure’s alone, but due to the unceasing surge of activity that makes up the populace of this urban space.
Our city can never be truly learnt , turn down the street you walk daily with a different set of eye’s and new vision’s will be there in front of you - displayed on a blinding sarcophagus like plinth, awaiting your participation, your submersion into the everyday presence – to live that day’s holagraphic reality, then disappear as quickly as you came.
It’s not just our set of eye’s, she’s seen with many. Allowing us to roam in multifacted intersected vision’s, the everyday is now amplified – the lampost, the traffic light, the sign, the street furniture, text and repeating form’s and component’s - the mundane and the beautiful, pining down the essence of the effaced geographical layering that create’s our cities inhabitant’s, existance and experience. – the frantic turbulance dependant on destination.
In the twenty-first century we can vicariously live or derive through exposure to the cities movement’s, aiming to position ourselve’s in the heart of the experience yet amplifying the insignificance between humanity and architecture, between glimmering glass and concrete and our bodies.
Graham can be contacted at +44(0) 7951 496 858 or at graham@gdholland.co.uk