URBAN DOCUMENTS

Exhibition: Saturday 15 July - Sunday 15 September
Seminar: 12 September

Urban Documents explores the way buildings have evolved and changed over time. The subjects within the photographs are predominately from Weston-super-Mare, but also from Bristol and beyond. These locations offer a diverse range of architecture that is old enough to have had different occupants over the decades.

Stephen Monger is a photographer who uses cardboard models of the built environment to make his work. The models are photographed using lighting and a large format camera to produce a final photograph in which the models appear superficially realistic, but which subtly manipulates the result to emphasise particular detail.

Stephen Monger is an artist and photographer based in Somerset. He is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Urban Documents is funded by Arts Council England, the national development agency for the arts, through its Grants for the arts programme.

We would like to thank Urban Splash for their interest and support.

Seminar: 12 September

Urban Documents invites us to look at images of buildings which have been changed over time. Can contemporary residential design give current and future owners and tenants a place which can truly be their own? How does personalisation affect other residents? Does a strong architectural language protect our overall environment from the intrusion of personal taste, or is there a benefit in allowing flexibility and an overlay of ownership over time?

For further details of this seminar which is aimed at a professional audience please see the web site or look out for a mailing nearer the time.

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