Revolve Gallery

Edward Chadwick

Award winning, Lancashire based art photographer Edward Chadwick has perhaps become best known in recent years for his iconic series of architectural images of Manchester. Ed has a definitive compositional style. This can be seen through his use of natural light, be it an abstract detail or a representational landscape.

For the last 17 years Edward has pursued his passion for photography on a mainly freelance basis, managing to combine commercial commissions and his own personal photographic projects. His work is both collected and widely commissioned both, with notable commissions being a series of awards for athletes ans stakeholders in the 2007 Paraolympics held in Manchester. With regards to collections, his work is present in both private & public art collections as far a field as Australia, New Zealand, Japan and the USA.

Background

Born in Lancashire in 1975, Edward grew up in a creative environment encouraged by his Fine Artist parents, his mother being a painter/printmaker and his father a sculptor. Upon completion of his A-Levels Edward went on to complete a BA(hons) Degree in Photography at Nottingham Trent University. After graduating in 1997, Edward worked in the commercial photographic industry for about 2 years whilst also concentrating on furthering his own art photographic career. Leading to a series of exhibitions throughout the UK and Ireland.

Since 2000 Edward has worked freelance as an art photographer, exhibiting, promoting and selling his own work and working on commissions. Alongside this Edward also opened, in 2003 - Naturaleye Gallery in Manchester’s Northern Quarter - a gallery devoted solely to showing his own work and latterly in 2010 - Snug Gallery in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire - a new venture showing mainly contemporary craft by some of the nest UK designers and makers. In addition Edward was also an Artistic Director at Manchester Craft & Design for 6 years.

Inspiration

Edward Chadwick’s photography is inspired by the interaction of texture, surface & the interplay of light. A strong believer in the continuation of traditional techniques through the contemporary digital medium all Edward’s photography is produced using only natural available light. Influenced heavily by the exponents of the ‘straight’ photography movement - the likes of Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Minor White and more latterly John Blakemore, Thomas Joshua Cooper and Josef Hoehner.

Seeking inspiration from the rugged moorland landscape of the North of England, the spectacular shorelines of the Western reaches of Scotland through to the intimate details in towns and cities throughout Europe. Edward’s photographs evoke a certain timeless quality that can be sometimes lacking in the constant bombardment of highly saturated instant images that are present in the everyday. A persuit of longevity over the instant.