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2010 - february  
Preparing for his first solo photography show at Momentum8 Studio in Joplin, Missouri. Photographed Matthew Halsall and band at the Vortex Jazz Bar in London.
Rope
2010 - january  
Started a 365 photography project on Tumblr. Photograph's featured on an American Art blog site called d'Arte Board. Denis Jones photo used on Band On The Wall and Friend Rock Manchester site. Matthew Halsall BBC Maida Vale session for Gilles Peterson photo featured on Brownswood's website.
Block
2009 - december  
Started a new Envelope Art series 'A-Z', despatching to people worldwide. Joined CityLifers.co.uk as a Manchester concert reviewer and photogrtapher. Took photos of Matthew Halsall and band as they recorded a live session at BBC Maida Vale studios for Gilles Peterson Radio 1 Worldwide show. Photo of Matthew Halsall DJing at Band On The Wall is featured in the venues gallery section.
BandOnTheWall
2009 - november  
Displayed work at The Coningsby Gallery in London as part of a Manchester Met University Illustration with Animation graduates reunion show. Completed a limited run of 10 hand drawn envelopes for people who responded to a blog post.
coningsby
2009 - october  
Photo of Matthew Halsall playing Proud Galleries in London is used on the music blog site Inaudible Answer. Started a Blogger site. Began sending envelopes covered in artwork to the 10 people who were first to respond on the blogger site.
Proud2
2009 - june  
Displayed work at Manchester Met University graduate show. Achieved a BA honours degree in Illustration with Animation.
Met
2009 - may  
Started a Coroflot.com page and created this web site.
 
2009 - april  
Designed the album sleeve for local Manchester band Cyril Snear's debut album "Fluent in seven types of monotone" which was released with a launch party at Manchester's Ruby Lounge.
cyril snear
2009 - march  
Photograph "Contorted" displayed in Manchester gallery Cube as part of the Capture Manchester competition. It was also published in a related book.
contorted
2009 - january  
Photograph "Paper" featured on blog site Creativity/Machine.
Paper
2008 - december  
Took photographs for Matthew Halsall at Proud Galleries gig in Camden, London.
proud
2008 - november  
Completed a commission for portraits of Oasis's Gallagher brothers, on 12" vinyl.
noel gallagher
2008 - october  
Was approached to submit work for an exhibition at the APW Gallery in New York. The work was created using 5 12" vinyl records and was on display for 2 weeks. Started his final year at Manchester Met University and decided to experiment exclusively with photography.
APW
2008 - september  
Took photographs for Matthew Halsall and his jazz band during a live session at BBC Maida Vale studios in London, for Stuart Marconie's 6music radio show.
Matthew Halsall
2008 - july  
Completed two independent commissions for abstract artwork.
flying lotus
2008 - may  
Made a film from a bus using a digital camcorder and edited the footage, along with some hand drawn rotoscoping, to music by Four Tet. Started using Final Cut software. Made a music video for local indie band Cyril Snear's tune "653 ways to self destruct", using night bus stills. Created a Flickr.com account for his photographs.
2008 - march  
Started to experiment with animation, made from long exposure photographs taken from a bus.
2008 - january  
Started to experiment with stop frame sand animation, made by drawing in sand on a lightbox.
sand anim
2007  
Photos of his artwork were used for the cover of online art magazine "World Artist Network". Contributed to the 'WAN' sketchbook which was sent to contributors around the globe. Was featured in a Manchester based online music and art website called 'The Console'. Became more interested in photography and started taking shots in the Manchester jazz bar, Matt & Phreds. Was asked to design a two page spread for Californian style magazine "Locale". The background image for a punk band review which was published in March. Sold his first canvas print through Myspace. Started taking photos of Matthew Halsall and his band performing live.
Locale
2005-2006  
At MANCAT, experimented with multi-media collage, photograms, installations, etching, screen printing, textiles, life drawing and animation. Created a large wooden artist book based on a song by Tom Waits called "Don't go into the barn" which includes a film to accompany the tune. Based his final project around the London Marathon, using photos, film, found objects and abstract paintings. Received a diploma in both life drawing and printmaking. Was accepted at Manchester Met University's Illustration with Animation degree course. Received a runner-up prize in Manchester City Art Gallery's "Inspired By" competition, for a multimedia collage which went on display in the Manchester Central library for one month. Started a YouTube.com page to display his animations.
2001-2005  
Progressed from pencil sketching to oil painting. Created multi-media collages on clip-frames for friends and family. Sent a collage to the clothing label Diesel, which was used at an exhibition in London called "Lights, Camera, Action!"and was included in a film edited by The Light Surgeons. Created and regularly maintained a Myspace.com page, containing his work. Applied to Manchester College of Art and Technology and is accepted on the Art Foundation course.
Badu
2000  
Graduated from SSR with a merit and worked part-time at Stump recording studios in Stockport.
 
1999  
Moved to Manchester from West Sussex to attend The School of Sound Recording's audio engineering course.
 
2008 - november  
Graduated from Southampton Institute with a BSc honours degree in Business IT.
 
   
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