Summary
Deb began her practice within Documentary Photography & Film, studying at Leeds Beckett University (BA) and London College Communication (MA). Creating work instinctively generated from lived experience, seeking the raw over the ‘real’. Deb is Northern based and balances working in education while exhibiting her photographs and film installations. Her experimental Documentary practice investigates people and place, Post-industrial communities, energy, tangible & visceral life forces, Medical and Environmental Humanities. Deb’s current film in post-production is an eco-feminist embodied documentary ‘North Sea Sisterhood’ exploring grief and synostopia through Sensory Ethnography (an idea developed while on residency with Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology).
Her next project is an immersive Documentary that has been supported through workshops with Live Cinema UK, CULTVR Cardiff, Mediale and Alexander Whitley Dance Studio.
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Deb also have experience within the TV & Film industry within Production Coordination, Stills Photography and Art department.
Experience
Exhibitions & Experience
- Sheffield Documentary Festival, AR Talent 2024
-Mediale and Alexander Whitley Dance studio, Motion Capture workshop weekend 2024
-Live Cinema UK, 1-0-1 weekend workshop Immersive Arts training at CULTVR 2023
- Director, for eco-feminist embodied documentary 'North Sea Sisters' following female surfers processing grief and synostopia; grief of the landscape (currently in post production).
- Film Director, VRN (visual research network- Granada Centre for Anthropology) Covid film. Currently at festivals.
-Film Artist Residency: Arts, Letters, Numbers, Humanities, New York State Sept 2022 (postponed to 2024)
- Film Artist: Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Artist Residency September 2018 (Manchester Uni, Salford Uni & Manchester Met AHRC North west) Further info
- Photography Exhibition: The Bowery Gallery, Then & Now Exhibition and Publication June-Sept 2018
- Film installation: 'Dialect of the Deep' Free Space project, London. March - June 2018
- Photography Exhibition: The Bowery Gallery, Leeds Film Installation July - October 2017
- Whitecloth Photography & Film Gallery, Leeds 'Twinned' exhibition April- June 2017
- Goole Art Gallery, Arts Council Funded 'Place Greater than home' solo exhibition and community art workshops, 2017
- V Art Centre, Elephant in the room Photo Collective, Shanghai, 2015
- Brick Lane photo auction, London 2014
-The Junction Arts Centre grand opening, solo exhibition, Goole 2010 (Artist workshops)
- East London Photography Festival, Vyner Street Gallery London 2010
- Impressions Gallery, Bradford. Lost in Transit Group show 2009
- Redeye Photography Network & Impressions Gallery. One Year artist development and exhibition programme 2008
-Film & Video Umbrella, 3 month Arts film commissioning Traineeship, London 2008
Education
MA Photography, London College of Communication (UAL) 2014
BA Honours Graphic Art & Design, Leeds Met University 2007
Foundation Art Diploma, Leeds College of Art 2002