Project in Progress

A  preview into my most recent shoot, photographing the diaries themselves. The book shown here was written in 1936.

Handmade books : Brenda's diaries

A few months ago I spoke about my new photography project involving a set of  diaries I bought at a car boot. The photos below are mock up books I've been making using scans from the diaries.

Featured in "For Example" art magazine

I am so pleased to be featured in "For Example" magazine recently : a website dedicated to an online exhibition space of artwork.

Heres a link to the page if you're interested in having a look! http://www.for-example.org/profile.php?fullname=katiemeadow

New project: screenshot

Sunday : Lavender farm and walk on canal

On Sunday I went to Inglenook Lavender farm for their farmers produce and craft market. 

 Pretty blue glass bottles from their shop

Honey and Lavender cake

Essential oil bottles

Inglenook tearooms : honey and lavender, victoria sponge and coffee and walnut cake

Walk along the Leeds and Liverpool canal, flowers on the bank

Summer is almost over...

1940s Wartime Weekend at Lytham St. Annes.

Lytham 1940s Wartime Weekend

 On the 17th August I attended Lytham's 1940s festival. These photographs are of their WW2 re-enactment battle scene.

Lighthouse

I really enjoyed photographing the Mull of Galloway lighthouse, on the edge of the cliffs in West Scotland.

Handful of seashells

Feeling like a giant with a handful of these tiny sea shells on a beach in West Scotland.

Where the sea meets the sky

Endless blue, Bray Harbour, Ireland.

Holidays

Smoke from gorse fire on Bray head, Ireland.

Fire damage on the cliff walk to Greystones. Photograph taken several days after the fire

Butterflies and Moths

Prints from my recent work looking at moth and butterfly collections in Victorian Britain. 3D butterflies I handmade using my own photographs I took at the entomology departments archives at Manchester's Natural History museum. At the recent exhibition in May, I scattered these butterflies around my prints.

Handmade Concertina Book

Miniature, handmade, double sided concertina hardback book that I created for a recent project. The book contains photographs I've taken on an old Olympus trip 35 camera and, within tiny paper pockets, scans of  documents belonging to my Grandfather in the 1940s, that can be opened and folded out. 

Seaside Polaroid

Scan of old Polaroid taken during a college project a few years ago. I love the colour changes and light leaks from the Impossible Project polaroid film.

Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire

Photograph from recent trip to Fountains Abbey, Yorkshire. 

The Housekeepers sitting room at Tatton Park

Tatton Park Photographs : A Neoclassical mansion

Photographs at Tatton Park Mansion

I loved visiting Tatton Park and the opportunity to see inside this Neoclassical mansion...

Brenda's diaries: New Photography project!

I'm excited to be working on a new photography project! I recently bought 19 old diaries from a car boot sale. They start at 1925 when the author is just 14 and finish in 1958. I have been typing out sections of the diaries, on my Imperial typewriter.

A short extract from Saturday 2nd October 1948

 "Just come to bed straight in soon after 10. Washed stockings, set hair etc. Now 10:45 but determined to try to get my diary going again. Know that I shall regret not having lovely times in writing."

Transient Collective Exhibition 26th May-28th May 2014

I recently collaborated with 11 photographers to organise, and hold an exhibition in the old ballroom at Antwerp Mansion Manchester.

My work focused on the temporality of nature. I photographed antique insect collections, butterflies that are captured, deprived of life and then displayed in such a way as to be preserved in eternal timelessness.

http://cargocollective.com/transientcollective/Katie-Meadow

'Specimen'

 A quick preview into a new project I've been working on.