About
Returning to civilian life with an ambition to be a photojournalist, a trip to London resulted in a series of commissions for 'Black Star' agency. Uncomfortable with freelance work I worked in a series of portrait and general studios from the late 1950s to 1970. My personal documentary practice continued alongside resulting in three large exhibitions.
A move to Derby, to teach full time, in 1970 marked the beginning of my landscape work which established me as a 'known' photographer.
My work has been exhibited widely both nationally and internationally and has been added to many public and private collections.
2006 | The Luminous Garden. Hoopers Gallery, London |
2005 | Tulipa. Hoopers Gallery, London |
2004 | Landscapes. Hoopers Gallery, London |
1995-8 | The Photographs of John Blakemore(British Council Touring Exhibition) |
1995 | Alden Biesen, Belgium |
1994 | The Stilled Gaze, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London |
1993 |
Beyond Landscape, Howarth Gallery, Accrington Beyond Landscape, Photographs 1970-1991 Focal Point Gallery, Essex The Royal Photographic Society, The Octagon, Bath The Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge |
1992 |
Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York, USA Intimate Rituals, 'Mai de la Photo', Reims, France Inscape, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh |
1991 |
Inscape, Poseurs, Birmingham Still Life, Contretype, Brussels, Belgium Beyond Landscape, Retrospective 1970-1991, Derby City Museum |
1990 |
Inscape, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London Still Life, Photographers Gallery, London |
1985 |
Still Life 1981-1984, Untitled Gallery, Sheffield Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool |
1981 |
Contrasts Gallery, London Camera Obscura Gallery, Stockholm |
1980 |
Lila, Photographers Gallery, London Impressions Gallery, York, then touring |
1979 |
Spirit of Place, Welsh Arts Council Exhibition Ffoto Gallery, Cardiff Photographers Gallery, London Impressions Gallery, York, then touring |
1976 |
Stand Before the World, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol Photographers Gallery, London Open Eye Gallery, London Impressions Gallery, York, then touring |
1974 |
A Vision of Landscape, Impressions Gallery, York Contrasts Gallery, London |
2011 | Seduced by Art, The National Gallery, London |
2001 | Something Old, Something New, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1997 |
History, Ferrens Collection, Hull Schoonheid van het Verval, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, Holland |
1995 | Photographs and Paintings, John Blakemore and Michael Porter, Harewood House, Leeds |
1994 | A Positive View, Saatchi Gallery London |
1993 |
Flora Photographica, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada The New York Public Library, New York, USA The Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario, Canada The Mead Gallery, University of Warwick Recent Works, Los Angeles International, USA Bergen Museum of Art & Science, New Jersey, USA |
1992 |
ICI Photography Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London and Photokina, Cologne Shared Light, Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales Works on Paper, The Amoury, New York, USA British Photography, Arles Photo Festival, France Flora Photographica, Serpentine Gallery, London Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh Manchester City Museum and Art Gallery |
1990 |
Landscape, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London The Garden, Newcastle Arts Centre, then touring Images of British Landscape, Meyerhoff Gallery, Baltimore, USA |
1987 | Realities Revisited, Sadye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada |
1986 | Tomorrow, Royal Festival Hall, London |
1981 |
Contemporary British Photography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, USA Photographs into Print(A.C.G.B. Exhibition) |
1979 | The Native Land, Mostyn Gallery, Wales |
1978 | The Thousand and one Photographs, Fotografiska Museet, Stockholm |
1977 | Singular Realities, Side Gallery, Newcastle |
1975 |
The Romantic Landscape, Kodak House, London Three Photographers, with Paul Hill and Thomas Joshua Cooper, 11 Diaframa Gallery, Milan |
1973 | Serpentine Photography '73, Serpentine Gallery, London |
2011 | Eyemazing Magazine (Amsterdam), Issue 4 |
2000 | Profi Foto, Germany, Interview by Rhona Wilson, pp 42-45 |
1995 | Kew, Spring '95 |
1993 | John Blakemore, Zoom International, Vol. 122 |
1992 |
Vis-a-Vis, Paris. No. 12 "Altered States". Portfolio, No. 14 Creative Review British Journal of Photography |
1991 |
Creative Camera, No. 311 British Journal of Photography, Nos. 6840/6851 The Photographic Journal, RPS Vol. 132, No. 1 Amateur Photographer, Dec. 21/28 Time Out, No. 113/4 Week End Guardian, Sept. 21/22 |
1987 | Photography Magazine, London |
1984 | Creative Camera, London |
1981 |
Print Letter, Switzerland, No. 31 Camera, London |
1979 |
Ten-8. No. 3 Aggie Weston's, No. 15 |
1976 |
Fotografie, Norway, No. 2 Nye Foto, Norway, No. 4 British Journal of Photography, No. 6027 |
1975 |
Camera, Switzerland, No. 8 Spot, Yugoslavia |
1974 | Aggie Weston's, No. 4 |
1973 | Amateur Photographer |
1972 | British Journal of Photography, No. 5819 |
1971 | British Journal of Photography, No. 5815 |
2000 | International Centre for Photography, Norway |
1999 | Irish Photographers, Belfast |
1978-1997 | Photographers Place, Derbyshire |
1989-2001 | Photographers at Duckspool, Somerset |
1993/95/96/97 | Merseyside Aware, Liverpool |
1990-92 | Irish Photographers, Dublin |
1988/91/95/96/97 | London Independent Photographers |
1992 | Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh |
1991 | Oxford Photographers |
1990/1993 | Royal Photographic Society, Bath |
1988 | Cork Independent Photographers, Cork, Eire |
1985 | Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool |
Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
Arts Council of Great Britain, London |
Department of the Environment, London |
British Council, London |
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris |
Royal Photographic Society, Bath |
Museum of Film, Photography and Television, Bradford |
Fotografiska Museet, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, USA |
The Vernon Collection, Los Angeles, USA |
University of Parma, Italy |
Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Holland |
National Library of Wales |
Ferrens Collection, Hull |
Birmingham City Archives |
2011 | John Blakemore: Photographs 1955-2010 Dewi Lewis 9781907893124 |
2005 | John Blakemore's Black and White Workshop, David & Charles ISBN 0 7153 17202 |
1994 | The Stilled Gaze, Zelda Cheatle Press, London. Introductory texts by John Banville and Judith Bumpus. ISBN 0 9518371 68 |
1991 | Inscape, Zelda Cheatle Press, London. Introductory text by Val Williams. ISBN 0 9518371 09 |
1989 | Year of the Tree, Hanover Acceptances, London Award of Excellence, Design Annual, 1990 |
1977 | John Blakemore, British Image No. 3. Introductory text by Gerry Badger, ISBN 0 7287 0107 3 |
2002 | Portfolio of 12 original prints. Edition of Six. Hoopers Gallery, London. |
1981 | Monograph of Original Prints, "Thistle Portfolio", Contrasts Gallery, London. |
1978 | Featured in "Exploring Photography" No. 3, "The Landscape", BBC 2 |