Fergus Heron was born in London in 1972. He studied Photography at the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham, graduating with the degree BA (Hons) Photography in 1997 and at the Royal College of Art, where he was awarded the degree MA Photography in 2000. In 2003 he was nominated for the Jerwood Artist Platform.
His architectural, interior and landscape photographs depict commonly experienced places that embody real and imagined histories; making visible connections, discontinuities and tensions between the traditional and the modern. His work considers the photograph itself as a complex image between document and picture, past and present, representation and resemblance.
Heron’s work has been included in group exhibitions at Pump House Gallery (London) Museum for Contemporary Art (Roskilde, Denmark) K3 (Zurich, Switzerland) Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (Exeter, England) Royal West of England Academy (Bristol, England) and in the first major exhibition of Photography ‘How We Are: Photographing Britain’ at Tate Britain.
