Endcliffe & Hillcote Mansions 2006

Additions and Subtractions

When visiting this location with the artist he talked of the interest in the clear additions made to the building over recent years, again presumably reflecting the nature of the building’s use to house multiple occupants who have very specific needs. Through a formalist photographic approach, including the removal of any figurative representation, vehicles or other urban distractions and the reduction of colour saturation through photographing on days with muted light, the viewer can purely focus on what is being presented – the new windows in the roof, the incongruous bay window, the multi-faceted facades of this structure. It was clear in this instance that there was no need to construct a model. There was nothing that needed to be removed in order to make his point.

(Dr Simon Standing - University of Plymouth)

(Extracts from ‘Urban Documents’ catalogue, ­­The Architecture Centre, Bristol 2006, ISBN 0-9553609-0-0)

Arundell Road 2006

Photographic subjects include: regional identity expressed through architecture and the landscape; the Victorian mansions of Weston-super-Mare; small buildings; property extensions/adaptions; and hillside housing.