Funding Spotlight - The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
Funding Spotlight - The RS Macdonald Charitable Trust
Wed, Aug 24, 2022 9:30 AM BST (+01:00)
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FORMAT Photoforum with MacDonaldStrand
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Join us online for January's PhotoForum for an inspirational talk from the creative duo that is MacDonaldStrand.
About this event
MacDonaldStrand are the partnership of Clare Strand and Gordon MacDonald, based in Brighton, UK and exhibiting nationally and internationally.
Clare Strand is an artist whose work is held in many public and private collections. She has shown extensively in group and solo shows for the past 25 years.
Gordon MacDonald is an artist and editor. He was the founding editor of Photoworks magazine, co-founder of GOST Books and is currently co-founder and editor of Hapax Magazine.
Together as MacDonaldStrand they make work in response to photographic history, politics and practice. Recent projects include Old English Pricks, a newsprint image and text set of books depicting current figures in British politics; A Fucking Photobook, a letterpress book using a regular photobook sequence, designed to submit to photobook competitions; Most Popular of All Time, a survey of the most popular images of all time (according to a Google search), each transformed into dot-to-dot drawings and No More Flags, a series of images of far right-wing marches in the UK and US, with the flags crudely removed from the images. macdonaldstrand.co.uk
Most Popular of All Time was recently exhibited as part of FORMAT21, the project is the result of a 2012 survey of the many online lists of the most popular photographs of all time. These photographs have become so ubiquitous that it is hard to see their content and they have become detached from their context. MacDonaldStrand reduced them to a series of lines and numbered dots and turned them into dot-to-dot drawings to re-engage with the images and to reconsider their content and context. You can see the online exhibition here.
MacDonaldStrand will talk about these works and others in an informative and informal talk as part of FORMAT Festival's monthly talk programme, PhotoForum. If you would like to hear more about FORMAT's programme you can sign up to our newsletter here.
This talk will take place via Zoom and also live streamed to the FORMAT Facebook account. The link to access the talk will be sent to all registered attendees prior to the event.
Tickets are free but we ask that you donate if you can to support our ongoing programme. FORMAT is part of QUAD which is a registered charity and all of the funds we raise enable us to deliver high quality art to local, national and international audiences.
Image: Charlottesville 'Unite_the_Right' Rally, No More Flags, MacDonaldStrand