Rory Carnegie

Botley Road – The Invisibles

Dead Places

Invisible People

Islay – Picturing an Absence

About

I tell my students that when I LOOK at a photograph, I am SEEKING to understand the person behind the camera. In my presentations I show works by photographers who all have a very identifiable signature, and this has led to some CURIOSITY when it comes to my own work; ‘So Rory, what sort of work do you do?’ The truth is, in my career I have worked in a BROAD RANGE of photographic STYLES and much of the work I have produced sits somewhere between traditional photography and painting.

When I asked the Director of the National Crime Agency why he had chosen me to develop the Modern Slavery campaign, he said that they were looking for someone who had exhibited in the ART WORLD, the commercial photography business and the humanitarian sector.

Throughout my work is the idea of INTERCONNECTEDNESS and an active presence of absent things. By this I mean, that all animals, landscapes and objects should be regarded, analysed and valued with reference to those other ELEMENTS by which they are influenced and made whole.

Central to this idea is that humans are just ANOTHER part of the World. In several of my series I explore how the land and other environments shape us and make us who we are; that is, we are in the land and it is in us. We would not be what we are without the other. This theme has led me into exploring the idea of DECONSTRUCTION; what might be seen as an indivisible whole is in fact a composite of separate parts. As a result I have in many of my series tried to illustrate the different components by conspicuously using multiple LAYERS of images to create the whole and finished image.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Autoportraits 1992-1996, PhotoOxford Festival, Fusion Arts Creative Space
2019 Long Service Project, St John’s College, Oxford
2019 Icon in collaboration with artists who have experienced homelessness. Old Fire Station, Oxford
2019 Long Ago and Far Away. Brown’s Hotel, London, John Martin Gallery
2018 Invisible People. Modern Slavery Exhibited in 12 cities in the UK incl London, Bristol, Glasgow and Belfast. Vatican, Rome and Wall St, New York
2016 Long Ago and Far Away, John Martin Gallery, London
2015 Tales of the Dog and Horse, John Martin Gallery, London
2012 Portraits, Keble College, Oxford
Land Girls. Then and Now, South Hill Arts Centre, Bracknell
2006 Botley Road/The Invisibles, OVADA, Oxford
2001 Art Crazy Nation, Inside Space, Selfridges, London
1988 Autoportraits, Charing Cross Road Gallery, London
1986 Altiplano, High Andes, Royal Geographical Society, London

Group Exhibitions

2023 Creative Meteorisms, Museum of Geological Formations, Meteora, Greece
2022 Handmade, Hertford College, University of Oxford
2019 Nature of the Beast, Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford
2018 The Full Picture.Diversity Oxford. Bodleian Library
AOP 50. Canary Wharf
2017 Ilex Gallery, Rome
2016 John Martin Gallery, Art 16
2014 John Martin Gallery, London Art Fair 2014
2012 Keble College, Oxford
Rencontres d’Arles Salon Gallery
2011 Children at War, Oxfordshire Museum
2008 2009 2010 2011 2013 AOP Gallery
2007 Institute of Contemporary Culture. Perm. Russia
The Face of Retail, Oxford Town Hall
They came to See, Leiden Museum, Holland
2006 Local Stories, Modern Art Oxford
2005 Modern Art Oxford
2004 2005 2006 Schweppes Photographic Awards, National Portrait Gallery, London
2004 The Oxford Show, Modern Art Oxford
1999 Naked, A.O.P Gallery
1996 1997 2002 2003 Kobal Photographic Awards , National Portrait Gallery, London

Contact

Rory Carnegie
5 Longworth Road
Oxford OX2 6RA

00(44) 7973 257920
rory@rorycarnegie.com

Represented by

John Martin Gallery (London)
020 7499 1314
info@jmlondon.com
www.jmlondon.com

Sarah Wiseman Gallery (Oxford)
01865 515 123
info@wisegal.com
www.wisegal.com