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Ian Beesley :WORK
No full textIAN BEESLEY :WORK
This exhibition presents work from the last 4 decades by Ian Beesley, one of Europe’s finest documentary photographers.
Large scale prints include images taken at Salts Mill in the 1980s as it slowly shut down, and some from 2017 when Beesley returned to the building thriving once more.
Elsewhere, an extraordinary Wall of Workers shows portraits of men and women employed in trades that no longer exist.
The final part of the gallery houses The Big Big Camera- a century old- industrial relic revived by Beesley- and the work he has created with it. Throughout the exhibition are poems written by Ian McMillan. Beesley’s friend and frequent collaborater
Football Fans by Ian Beesley
No full textFootball fans a selection of 19 black and white photographs observing football fans reactions to the football matches from the 1999/2000 football season. In 1999 Bradford City AFC was promoted to the Premier league. Ian Beesley was appointed artist in residence at football club for that season. He chose to observe the fans rather than document the matches and the players.
As a life long supporter of the Bradford City he was well known amongst the fans, which enabled him to mix freely in the crowd and create intimate images of the fans emotional and sometime humorous responses to action on the pitch
Magic Lantern tales by Ian Beesley and Ian McMillan
No full textPhotographer Ian Beesley and poet Ian McMillan tell a story of the First World War from the point of view of the men and women who survived it and lived on to old age.In the 1980s and early 1990s Ian Beesley photographed and interviewed as many survivors of the First World War as possible this publication is a selection from this project, accompanied by Ian McMillan poems based on their stories
Yorkshire Stridings by Ian Beesley & Ian McMillan
No full textYorkshire Stridings is an incisive, intelligent guide to the history and landscape of Yorkshire from a renowned social documentary photographer and one of Britain’s most popular poets.
Ian McMillan and Ian Beesley have spent years walking through the landscape, history, towns and cities of their native Yorkshire and have recorded the uniqueness of the area in poetry and photography. Ian Beesley’s evocative photographs and Ian McMillan’s witty, moving poetry provide a portrait of Yorkshire’s past and present, its history and culture, and landscapes that have remained unchanged for generations.
From the iconic landscape of Ilkley moor and the limestone pavements of Airedale, the gothic coast around Whitby to the factories and mills of the industrial past, and the lost coalfields of South Yorkshire this is a sharply observed, personal, interpretation of ‘God’s Own County’ from two of its most popular native artists
The allotment of time by Ian Beesley, Tony Husband & Ian McMillan
No full textThe allotment of time
was produced as part of the ‘A Life More Ordinary’ project. Through collaboration with people who have dementia, carers, relatives and other supporters, the project aims to create a series of arts-based activities and outputs which provide a positive but realistic look at the experiences of those living with dementia and the individuals behind the diagnosis.
For this first chapbook in the series, Ian Beesley (photographer), Tony Husband (cartoonist) and Ian McMillan (poet) held a series of workshops in 2016 with Age UK Exeter’s ‘Budding Friends’ group. The artists spent time with the group—including those with dementia, their partners and volunteers—both on their rapidly growing allotment and indoors. Members of the group shared their images and stories, both from the past and in the present, and joined in activities with the artists. The chapbook presents some of the images and poems produced during the workshops on the theme of ‘The Allotment of Time’. We thank the group for their willingness to be involved, for their openness and honesty, and for the non-stop laughter during each session.
'A life More Ordinary' is funded by the ESRC (ES/M50046X/1) and is linked with the IDEAL study. The study examines what aspects of the social situation or the psychological resources that people with dementia and their families have that help or hinder their ability to live well. The IDEAL study is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the National Institute for Health Research (UK) through grant ES/L001853/2 'Improving the experience of dementia and enhancing active life: living well with dementia' (Investigators: Investigators: L. Clare, I.R. Jones, C.Victor, J.V. Hindle, R.W.Jones, M.Knapp, M.Kopelman, R.Litherland, A.Martyr, F.Matthews, R.G.Morris, S.M.Nelis, J.Pickett, C.Quinn, J.Rusted, J.Thom). The support of the ESRC and NIHR is gratefully acknowledged. (ES/L001853/2). For more information please see: www.idealproject.org.uk. Follow us on twitter: @IDEALStudyTwee
From the negative to the positive
No full textAs part of the Improving Dementia Experience And Living research project led by the University of Exeter. Gallery Oldham has been working with “The ragamuffins” a group of local people with dementia. From workshops led by the artists
Ian Beesley - photographer Tony Husband - cartoonist Ian McMillan - poet they have created this exhibition of
photography, cartoons, and poems that express their thoughts, hopes and experiences.
This is not a reminiscence project. Re-membering practices, within narrative therapy, are not about reminiscing but about relationships and witnessing the effects of those relationships and connections. It is a special form of re-collecting.
Here, each month, Ian, Tony and Ian have collected an amazing aural and visual smorgasbord. They have provided a safe fun context for people labelled with a dementia and their carers to come together. They have gathered to re-collect their memories, to laugh and to create and in doing so relationships and connections have been built. Profound issues and themes have been addressed with a lightness of touch.
In creating and witnessing each other all are members and re-membered into the fabric of the community. When we hear and see this work we too cannot help but be changed. It has been a journey from negative stereotypes to the positive relationships. I am honoured, along with DEEP (Dementia Engagement Empowerment Project) to have helped this to happen and get brief glimpses of its evolution.
Community psychology at its best
Polly Kaiser – Consultant Clinical psychologist
Pennine Care Oldha
A box full of cuckoos photographs by Ian Beesley Poems by Ian McMillan
No full textOldham’s original Library, Museum & Art Gallery opened in 1883. Plans were unveiled in 2012 to transform the building into a new Heritage Centre at the heart of a vibrant cultural hub for Oldham. The project was awarded development funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Arts Council England and the real work began.
Photographer Ian Beesley and poet Ian McMillan were invited to chart the first stages of this development. They found some rooms already empty, others still used to store museum collections and evidence everywhere of exploratory drilling and structural assessments. A new Heritage Centre will restore much of the building to its look and feel. It will also enable the museum collections to be fully displayed and allow the cuckoos out of their boxes once more
The book of damp Photographs by Ian Beesley Poems by Ian McMillan
No full textThe book of damp was commissioned by Doncaster & Rotherham Metropolitan councils for their Warm Well Families (WWF)
research project facilitated by Sheffield Hallam University. WWF examined the factors influencing the ability of households with children with asthma to keep warm and well in winter
Bruised Air
No full textBruised Air: animation for the Bradford institute of health research on the dangers of environmental pollution from car exhausts. Written & directed by Ian Beesley Animation by Jake Blakeston Lyrics by Ian McMillan and sung by Bradford Cathedral choi
Lets Eat (children & diet) for the Bradford Institute for health research photographs by Ian Beesley poem by Ian McMillan
No full textIn 2015 Born in Bradford started working with Bowling Primary School, Usher Street Bradford, on a series of collaborative arts projects.
The first was a project looking at food. Born in Bradford had been donated a number of smart phones which, once their sim cards had been removed, made excellent digital cameras.
Year 6 pupils were taught how to use them and then were asked to photograph what they had for breakfast, what they had for dinner and what they had for tea.
The images were projected in class for all to discuss.
Ian McMillan, poet, helped them construct this poem around these images whilst Fay Darvill Beesley, a performance artist helped to create movements to accompany the words.
The strength of such a collaborative approach is that it enables us to see into a child’s personal environment from their singular viewpoint, whilst empowering the child in the artistic and editorial performance of the work
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