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Teaching, Academic and Professional Experience
2002 – present
Course Leader MA Photography, Bradford School of Art.
2005 – present
Lecturer MA Printmaking, Bradford School of Art.
2005 – 2006
Lecturer BA(Hons.) Photography, Bradford School of Art.
2005 – present
Lecturer BA(Hons.) Fine Art / Art and Design, Bradford School of Art.
2006 – present
Co-founder and Co-director MULTI-, The Centre for Contemporary Printmaking
and Reproducible Arts.
2005 – present
Founder and co-editor www.c-floorintheory.co.uk
2002 – present
Co-ordinator Hibrida and Hibrida Press
(with Colin Lloyd and Ian Colverson).
2002 - present
Co-founder and co-ordinator the Bradford Grid Project
2002 – 2005
Lecturer BA(Hons) Photography and HND Photography, Bradford School of Art.
2001 – 2004
Member of the Fellowship Appointments Committee, National Museum
of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford.
1999 – 2002
Course Leader BA(Hons) Photography, Bradford School of Art.
1999 – 2002
Lecturer BSc(Hons.) Electronic Imaging and Media Communication,
University of Bradford (Secondment).
1995 – 1998
Course Leader HND Photography, Lecturer HND, HNC, ND Photography
and HND Graphic Design, Stoke on Trent College.
1994 – 1995
Part-time Lecturer, BA(Hons.) Photographic Arts, University of Wales College, Newport.
1993 – 1995
Part-time tutor in Photography, Ffotogallery, Cardiff.
1991 – 1993
Part-time tutor in Photography, Howardian Community College.
Academic Qualifications
2006 - 2010
PhD Research, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies,
University of Leeds.
1996
University of Derby.
MA Photographic Studies
1996
Stoke-on-Trent College.
Edxcel TDLB D.32/D.33 assessor / verifier award
1993
University of Wales College, Newport.
Teaching Certificate (FE/HE).
1992
Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham.
BA(Hons.) Photography.
1988
Bedford College of Higher Education.
ONC Information Technology.
Exhibitions, Commissions, Collections and Publications
2007
Stir, Public Art Installation for BBC North Big Screen Bradford.
Funded by Yorkshire Arts and Bradford Metropolitan Council.
Commission to produce film, stills and sound installation for the Big Screen,
Centenary Square, Bradford as part of the Stir Arts Festival.
2006
The Bradford Grid Project.
Exhibition South Gallery, Bradford, funded by Yorkshire Arts.
2006
The Bradford Grid Project.
Grant from the Arts Council England made to project group of 12 photographers
to develop its exhibition programme.
2006
University of the West of England, Centre for Fine Print Research.
‘Yesterday I Went to Brighouse (West Yorkshire). I could see Tesco from Sainsbury.
’ Book project with Colin Lloyd. Exhibited with other artists
as part of a showcase of European book collaborations.
2006
‘Hibrida Fragments’, South Square Gallery, Bradford and the University of the Arts, Bucharest.
A collaborative exhibition of contemporary photography and printmaking between
the staff and postgraduate students of Bradford School of Art and students
and staff of the University of the Arts, Bucharest. Funded and organised by
the Hibrida exhibition initiative. Work exhibited: ‘Dances with Galanta’ with
Robert Galeta, photo silkscreen and inkjet prints.
2005
‘Hibrida II’, Cartwright Hall, Bradford and Galerie Brno, Czech Republic.
Hibrida II further developed partnerships with artists from the new European
countries, which joined the EU in 2004. The exhibition investigated the cultural – visual
landscape of the new Europe and explored the interface of new and old technologies
emerging within contemporary printmaking. Organised in conjunction with the
University of Leeds, University of Brno and Arts Council England.
Work exhibited: ‘Other News’ inkjet print.
2005
‘Illuminate’ Bradford, Leeds, Sheffield and Newcastle
A series of events in the North of England leading to the 2008 European City of Culture.
Public space projection of the Bradford Grid Project. Commissioned by Yorkshire Arts
in association with Yorkshire Forward.
2005
‘The Bradford Grid Project’ Gallery II, University of Bradford.
Exhibition of work in progress from the artists involved in the project.
2003
‘Horizon Incidents’ MAC, Birmingham.
Documentary photography project on the Wirral area of North West England.
Commissioned by North West Arts.
2003
‘Hibrida: New Printmaking by Leading Artists’, the Holden Gallery, Manchester.
Hibrida brought together work of leading artists from the North East and North West of England.
The exhibition focussed on the various emerging forms and
contexts which printmaking now embraces, such as multi-media and installation,
bookworks, electronic media and public arts. Works exhibited: selections from ‘Industria’.
2003
‘Hibrida: New Printmaking by Leading Artists’,Centre for Fine Print Research,
University of the West of England
2003
‘Hibrida: New Printmaking by Leading Artists’,Galerie Mladych, Brno, Czech Republic.
2002
‘Hibrida: New Printmaking by Leading Artists’,Cartwright Hall Art Gallery, Bradford.
2000
‘Industria’, Kirkby Art Gallery, Liverpool.
Multimedia installation considering the myths invoked by the North West’s
industrial past. Large scale inkjet prints, light boxes, sound and text. Commissioned
by North West Arts.
1996
‘Tracing the Present’ Montage Gallery, Derby.
A large scale photographic print triptych and text pieces looking at notions
of the simulacrum via the topography of Etruria, Stoke on Trent.
Utilising quotes from H.G. Wells novelette ‘The Cone’, memory fragments regarding
Wedgewood’s late 18th century Etruscan ware and the Modern factory system
he built for its production.
1995
‘Digital Demographies’ University of Derby, site specific
installation, part of Derby Photography Festival.
Self portraits by surveillance camera. Digitally constructed prints hung through
stair well of abandoned textile mill, text adhered to steps.
1995
‘Shifts’ National Museum of Wales, Cardiff.
A commissioned work by the National Museum of Wales to complement a major retrospective
exhibition of photographers and artists who have worked in the South Wales
valleys over the last 100 years.
1993
‘Ocean Park’, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff.
A documentary photography exhibition on the redevelopment of Tiger Bay in Cardiff.
Collections
Arts Council of Wales, Cardiff City Council, National Museum of Wales,
University of the Arts, Bucharest, Galerie Brno, Czech Republic.
Publications
Dwight, H., Ford, S., Galeta, R. Forage : operations,
Hibrida Press, 2005.
Ford, S., Galeta, R. Imagining the Auroch, Hibrida Press, 2007
Ford, S., Galeta, R. Scuola, Hibrida Press, 2006.
Ford, S., et al. The Bradford Grid Project (Exhibition Catalogue),
Hibrida Press, 2006-09-19
Lloyd, C., Ford, S., Yesterday I went to Brighouse (West Yorkshire).
I could See Tesco From Sainsbury.Hibrida Press, 2006.