William Arnold

William Arnold (b.1983) is a visual artist and historian interested in the engagement of science, ecology and history in contemporary photo practice. His compositions, seek to explore aspects of temporality, the physical qualities of light and the role played by process in current debates surrounding the materiality of photography and the perceived authority of the photograph as historical document.

Through seeking new ways to chemically challenge the medium, the works hark back evocatively to the early experiments of the first photographic pioneers, however the integral role of contemporary technology within the practice makes for a synthesis of the analogue and digital, past and present.

Accolades

Vignette Awards 2013 (shortlist)

Peaches & Cream III - 2013 (Shortlist)

Ideas Tap Photographic Award in association with Magnum Photos – Finalist and Conceptual Category Winner (2011)

MA Photography and the Land (University of Plymouth 2014)

BA (hons) History (University of Lancaster 2004)

2014

MAKING TIME: New Photographic Constructions - Penwith Society Gallery, St. Ives - co-curator and exhibitor

PHOTOMASTERS - Old Truman Brewery, London

Beyond The Camera - Pingyao International Photography Festival, China

Nocturnal - University of Plymouth - Land Water & Visual Arts Symposium - invited film screening.

London Pinhole Festival - curated group show - Doomed Gallery, Dalston

'I' - (PASSING THROUGH THE VEIL OF SOLITUDE) Truro, curated by Millennium Contemporary Fine Art. St. Ives

2013

Vignette Awards Show, Bristol

Peaches & Cream III, DreamSpace, London (October

Royal Photographic Society - 156th Annual International Print Exhibition

Photography & The Expedition - Invited Speaker (University of Plymouth)

2012

Cornwall Film Festival

Silverprint, London

Hand, ‘Untitled Falmouth – An Exhibition of Unintentional Art’

Magnum Photos, London – IdeasTap Photographic Award

2011

Photomonth – Old Truman Brewery, London. (October 2011)