Bruce Rae
EDUCATION: 1996-1997 Birmingham School of Photography, Diploma in Photography; 1968 West Sussex College of Arts and Crafts, Pre-Diploma; 1970-1972, Royal College of Art, MA Photography.
TEACHING PHOTOGRAPHY: 1974-1978 London College of Printing; 1991-1995 University of East London; 1997-1998 University of East London.
BOOK COVERS: Penguin Books, Picador Books.
RECORD COVERS: A & M Records, CBS Records, Decca Records.
EDITORIALS: Time Out, City Limits, Over 21, Architects’ Journal, Management Today, Accountancy Age, Blueprint, Daily Telegraph Colour Supplement, The Times, Eye, Ritz.
CORPORATE LITERATURE: Citybank, 500 Group, Manulife, Reuters, Post Office Counters, Vailin Pollen, Coutts Bank.
COMMISSIONS: 1982 Side Gallery and Northern Arts, documenting Tyneside shipbuilding; 1984 Side Gallery and Northern Arts; documenting a mining village.
EXHIBITIONS: 1976 Newington Butts Arts Centre, ‘Death of a Road’. 1978 Institute of Contemporary Art, ‘Ways of Working’. 1979 Hammersmith Arts Centre; Half Moon Gallery. 1980 Battersea Arts’ Centre. 1982 Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, ‘Shipbuilding on the Tyne’; touring to Camera Work, London. 1984 Side Gallery, Newcastle, ‘Easington’, touring to Easington Community Centre, Camera Work, London, TUC, Congress House, London. 1991 Lamont Gallery, Bethnal Green, London; London Art Fair. 1992 Kate Heller Gallery, Soho, London; Portfolio Gallery, Portobello Road, London; London Art Fair; 1993 Akehurst Gallery, Print Room exhibition with major show of Ralph Eugene ‘Meatyard’; Los Angeles Art Fair; Seattle Art Fair; Chicago Art Fair. 1994 Special Photographers Company, London, Mixed Show. 1995 Brasserie Portobello, London; Side Gallery touring exhibitions, ‘Easington’ with Keith Pattison and ‘Wallsend’ with Graham Smith, Chris Killip; Kangawa, Japan, International Print Exhibition. 1996 Andrew Lamont, Gallery, London, ‘The Dream of Life - 12 photographs with poems by Richard Hamilton’; ‘Moth Myths’, University of East London, staff exhibition; Michael Hoppen Gallery, London, Exhibition in print room in conjunction with Blossfeldt exhibition. 1997 Michael Hoppen, London (Catalogue sponsored by Olympus Cameras).
DONATIONS: 1998, set of six silver palatine prints to King’s College Hospital, London.
RESEARCH: 1995, the platinum and palladium process (Mike Ware Variant) funded by the University of East London. 1996The salt print to the present.
AWARDS: D & AD Silver (work commissioned by the Partners Design Group).
BIOGRAPHICAL FEATURES: Ten Eight Magazine, Creative Camera, Amateur Photographer, Kew Magazine, Arts Review, A.G. Photographic Journal, Gardens Illustrated, Telegraph Newspaper.
PRINTS IN COLLECTIONS: The Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris; Texaco Willis Corroon; The Gas Exploration Council; The Anderson Consultancy; Citibank; Ralph Lauren; Private collections in Europe and the USA
REPRESENTED BY: Michael Hoppen, Jubilee Place, London SW3; Tel 0207 352 3649
Shipbuilding on the Tyne
from: Photography
Portraits and documentation of the shipyards on the Tyne from the early 1980s, when they were first beginning to feel the threat of the Conservative government's industrial policies.
Easington: A Mining Village
from: Photography
Portrait of Easington Colliery in County Durham immediately prior to the start of the Miners’ Strike of 1984, part of Amber's engagement with the issues which underpinned it.