ABOUT

Richard Chivers is a contemporary photographic artist and Architectural photographer, located in Brighton and London. Born in Basingstoke in 1974, he received a first class BA honours degree in photography at the University of Brighton in June 2006.

Richard has exhibited throughout the South East of England and in London. His own personal work is concerned with contemporary landscape issues, while his commercial work is focused on Architectural photography and capturing the built environment, with recent commissions from ADP Architects, Rick Mather Associates and design company GardnerQuainton. Richard is also working for the Photographers Gallery on the Colliers Green Focus project, teaching Key stage 3 children to explore their environment through photography.

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Exhibitions

August 2010. AOP Open 2010 London

July/Aug 2010. Foto8 Summer Show 2010. Host Gallery London

May 2010. Landscape 1. Lucy Bell Fine Art

May 2010. HumanENDeavor. Crane Kalman Brighton

Jan-April 2010. Textures of Time. Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent.

Oct 2009. Territory. Otter Gallery Chichester.

Sept/Oct 2009.'Textures.' Gallery 100, 100 Queens Road Brighton.

June 2009. Blue Skies Ahead. Arts and Business Exhibition.

June/July 2009. Gainsborough Art Centre. Crawley.

Oct-Nov 2008. 'Human Endeavour' Brighton Photo Fringe.

Jul-Sept 2008. 'Textures of Time'. Amberely Working Museum West Sussex.

Feb-May 2008. 'Layers'. Brighton Museum and Art gallery.

Feb 2007. 'The Things we Love.' Crane Kalman Brighton.

Dec 2006. 'My Backyard 2'. Calumet Gallery Manchester.

Nov 2006. 'My Backyard 2'. Calumet Gallery London.

Oct 2006. 'Recent Graduates. Affordable Art Fair' Battersea London.

Jun 2006. EDPHOTO06. Truman Gallery. Brick Lane.

Jun 2006. EDPHOTO06. Centre for Visual Art Brighton.

Jun 2005. 'Transitory Landscapes' Sydney Street Gallery Brighton.

Awards

Aug 2010. Judges Choice Award AOP Open 2010. ;

May 2009. Magenta Flash Forward 2009 winner. ;

Jan 2009. The Geologists Association award for further research and development of 'Textures of Time'. ;

Sept 2008. Arts Council England award to curate exhibition 'Human Endeavour'

Feb 2008. Arts Council England award to produce & exhibit project Textures of Time.

Oct 2006. Highly Recommended. My Backyard 2. London Photographic Association.

Oct 2005. Winner. North Laine Photography competition.

Publication & online.

Sept 2009. Urbanautica featuring Textures of Time. www.urbanautica.com .

29th July 2009. British Journal of Photography. Textures of Time.

June 2009. Liverpool. Shaping the City. RIBA Publication. LJMU.

May 2009. Coast Magazine. Towner Art Gallery.

April 2009. Architects Journal 16.04.09 Towner Art Gallery.

April 2009. Wallpaper Magazine online. Towner Art Gallery review

Jan 2009. Source Magazine. A review of 'Human Endeavour' Exhibition.

Dec 2008. Foto8. An online review of Human Endeavour.

Nov 2008. Metavisual. www.metavisual.org

Oct 2008. 1000 words photography. www.1000wordsphotographymagazine.blogspot.com

Sept 2008. PROfile 04 Textures of Time:landscape architecture. Chalet Alpin.

Sept 2007. KEN360. 'Layers.' Chalet Alpin.

Ongoing. The Photographers Gallery. Colliers Green Focus Project. www.photonet.org.uk & www.colliersgreenfocus.com/gallery

Representation.

Millennium Images. www.milim.com

Visual. www.visualforbusiness.com

Visual. www.ribapix.com

To commission Richard for work contact 07786616461 or email richard@rchivers.co.uk