Isabella Jedrzejczyk
Isabella trained and worked in photography for twenty years. After completing the course in Creative Photography at Nottingham Trent Polytechnic, she joined Side Gallery, Newcastle in 1976 and pursued a career in photography and all aspects of gallery work. During this time she was awarded grants and commissions from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Northern Arts, Side Gallery and A19 Film and Video. The work was exhibited in groups and solo shows both in the UK and abroad.
Isabella also taught photography at Sunderland Polytechnic, Middlesbrough College of Arts and Northumberland University. Motivated by an interest in photographic archives, she went on to complete the MA in the Conservation of Works of Art on Paper at Northumbria University in 1999 and currently works for Cumbria Archive Service at the Conservation Unit in Carlisle.
For Druridge
from: Photography
Landscapes from the early 1980s of a stretch of the Northumberland coastline threatened by plans to develop a nuclear power station. The plans were dropped after the Sizewell Inquiry.
Urban Landscapes
from: Photography
Landscapes of Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside and industrial Northumberland by a photographer who was part of the Side Gallery operation in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Jungle Portraits
from: Photography
Portraits from a public house in North Shields, taken in 1980 as part of the broader photographic project, North Tyneside.
Northumberland Landscapes
from: Photography
Landscapes exploring rural Northumberland in early 1980s, by a photographer who was part of the Side Gallery operation from its earliest days.
Wills' Factory
from: Photography
The last days of a Newcastle upon Tyne cigarette factory, 1986, documented by the photographer who worked as part of the Side Gallery operation, with a text by Amber member Ellin Hare.