Scratch 2561: Thornhill Estate, Southampton - No Miracles Here. - Limited Edition of 10 Photograph

Tony Bowen is a UK based fine artist working mainly with photography. Since postgraduate study, he has divided his time between personal practice and art and design education (teaching and curriculum leadership) in Manchester, where he was born and in Sussex, where he now lives. With a background and first degree in painting, an interest in making photographs has developed over time: initially supporting work with other media and subsequently as outcomes in their own right. Alongside formal and atmospheric considerations, his work is largely inspired by the power of the trace, the fragment and the unresolved to provoke the imagination in unexpected ways. A preoccupation with interpreting and documenting the found mark has spanned a number of years. More recent work focuses largely on interrogating and exploring ordinary and often overlooked surfaces present in natural, domestic and urban environments. The residues of human and other activity are areas of particular interest, suggesting all kinds of narratives and stimulating broad lines of investigation. Whether metaphorical or literal, these enquiries open up new, personal ways of reading the environment, and of deciphering and engaging with landscape. His work has been shown widely in galleries, venues and publications throughout the UK, Europe and the USA.