Background and CV

Tricia Porter: Curriculum Vitae Tricia Porter has been a freelance photographer since 1970 and is experienced in several photographic disciplines, such as photojournalism, wedding photography, portraiture and illustration. Her work has been seen in exhibitions and documentary projects. She has also been involved in developing several Community Arts photography programmes. To print this CV: Either use your brower's Print command to print the whole CV, or select what you require and print only the selection. You may need to adjust the screen type size in your browser if you have changed it from the default size setting. Principal Photographic Exhibitions
1973	Liverpool Academy Gallery: Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 exhibition. Half Moon Gallery, London: Bedford Street, Liverpool 8 exhibition. (This exhibition featured a disappearing street community in central Liverpool. It received financial support from Merseyside Arts Association, and was a joint project with David Porter who wrote accompanying text.) National Film Theatre, London: Women's Stills Exhibition.
1974	Liverpool Academy Gallery: Some Liverpool Kids exhibition. Edinburgh Festival: Some Liverpool Kids exhibition (The motivation for this project was a desire to make a positive and meaningful statement about the children of an area in inner-city Liverpool that all too often had been treated as statistical fodder and sociological phenomena. The project received financial support from the Arts Council of Great Britain and the Merseyside Arts Association.)
1975	Free University, Amsterdam: Group Exhibition (This exhibition featured work of three photographers, a painter and sculptor. It included a presentation of photographs of the disused South Docklands of Liverpool, a project on which Tricia worked for one summer. These Docklands have now been substantially redeveloped.)
1976	Upstream Theatre Club, London: Trees exhibition. Also contributed photographs to Children Photographed (Touring group exhibition compiled and presented by Children's Rights Workshop/IKON.)
1979	Year of the Child: Some Liverpool Kids exhibition shown at Arts Centre Group, Waterloo, London.
1982	Selborne: A Photographic Portrait - opened at the Curtis Museum, Alton, Hants and subsequently toured the area. (This two-year project explored village life in a popular Hampshire tourist venue. It had financial support from Southern Arts and East Hants Leisure Services.)
1986	Allen Gallery, Alton, Hants: Alton At Work, commissioned by the Alton Industry Year 1986 Committee.
1987	Alton Town Hall: an exhibition of photographs of the restoration of Alton Town Hall, October 1986/October 1987, commissioned by Alton Town Hall. (These photographs are now part of the Town Hall archives.)
1989	Selborne: A Photographic Portrait exhibition shown at Arts Centre Group, Waterloo, London. Photographs exhibited at Budapest University Students Union Club.
1992	Exhibition of the Industry Year photographs at the ADT College, Putney, London. This was preceded by a talk given at a Visual Arts Symposium at the same college.
1994	Initial exhibition of Military Ranges images in Army Officers' Mess, Bordon, Hants, then shown at Curtis Museum, Alton, alongside the Museum's exhibition on the Longmoor Military Railway.
1995	Tricia Porter's work featured in a film documentary Wat is er aan de hand [What's Up?], made by Art Revisited, Holland. It discussed three artists and has been shown on Dutch television.
1997	Photograph of the Hale-Bopp comet marketed as packaged print with text by David Porter (currently 200+ copies sold by word of mouth).
1997-8	Commissioned by Solway to illustrate an edition of selected poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins, Over the Bent World. This became the first Porterfolio.
1999	Over The Bent World published.
2000	Work begun on two black and white portfolios, featuring the vegetable garden and the flower garden.
2001	Fresh Harvest, the first showing of photographs from the 2000 projects, exhibited at Forest Mere,Hampshire. New series begun of colour photographs of wild and garden flowers
Publications Work included in sociological, educational and other studies from several publishers, including Oxford University Press, Longmans Educational, HarperCollins, The Times, etc. Portfolios in British Journal of Photography, Where? and other periodicals. A book of photographs of children, with poems and text by David Porter, Through the Eyes of a Child was published by Lion in 1983. An illustrated edition of selected poems by Gerard Manley Hopkins (with text and design by David Porter) - Over the Bent World - was published in 1999. Work has also been featured on various television programmes, book covers and elsewhere. Community Arts Projects In January 1987 Tricia joined Art Box, a Community Arts Project in Bordon, Hampshire, to set up a photography workshop, and since then has gained considerable experience working with various community groups. Photographic workshops undertaken include:
1	Work with a class of children in a junior school, to make an exhibition of photographs of people who work at the school.
2	Photography as part of an arts and crafts club on a housing estate.
3	Helping mothers attending a social services counselling centre to photograph, process and print portraits of their children.
4	Work with teenagers, taking photographs of their community which were used as a basis for creating a mural for the community centre.
5	Helping people to photograph self-portraits which were incorporated into larger painted portraits.
6	Creating a tape-slide story with a group of children, making hand-made slides and puppets.
7	Exploring sunlight and chemical photograms with various groups of people, and pin-hole photography.
8	Work with people with learning disabilities who attend a day centre. One of these workshops is now a regular half-day workshop each week. In September 1995 a two-year project of photographing and compiling an album of parish churches surrounding Alton, Hampshire, culminated in an exhibition of the work in Winchester Cathedral together with painted backdrops of some of the churches and work produced in the ceramics workshop -- all by clients of the day centre. The album was presented to the Alton Museum. Other projects include a collage 'map' of photographs based on a 1666 map of Alton, exhibited locally in September 1997.
9	Photography workshops with the Portsmouth Probation Centre for Men.
10	Helping a group of women compile an exhibition of old and new photographs, newspaper cuttings and questionnaires about the history of the housing estate in which they live. The exhibition has been displayed in local venues and has a permanent place in the new community centre on the estate.
11	Devising a series of nine photography workshops held concurrently with a sculpture workshop and a dance workshop, working with mixed groups of people with severe learning disabilities and men from an open prison coming to the end of their life sentences. An exhibition of the sculpture, photographs and a video of the dance was held at the prison and will be displayed in local and possibly national venues.
Some of these workshops have been set up by The Arts Connection based in Portsmouth. In 1991 Art Box disbanded. Since then Tricia has continued as a freelance peripatetic Community Arts Worker, developing Community Arts projects, working with local Welfare associations, with young people, socially disadvantaged people and groups with learning disabilities: clients include the Probation Services and Alton Day Services. She is also a member of the Arts Connection.
Other Workshops In February 1994 Tricia and David Porter led a two-day Adult Workshop at the Barbican Centre Art Gallery, London, on the theme 'Words and Images', as part of the All Human Life exhibition of photographs from the Hulton Deutsch picture library.