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A couple of weeks ago I was fortunate enough to photograph the final leg of the installation of ‘Framing Identity’ a new artwork by the unflappable Neville Gabie. Neville has transported an iceberg from the waters of Greenland to Cheshire for this years Tatton Park Biennial. You can view the work from May 8th until September 26th 2010.

Neville Gabie’s quasi-heroic hunting, harvesting, transporting and maintenance of his two tons of Greenlandish ice echoes both the nineteenth century interest in re-location (Tatton, like most grand houses of its time imported ice from the North Pole) and our newfound societal interest in sustainability. Gabie’s work is problematic: should we be ‘harvesting’ ice from the Pole? We are told, if we don’t, it will simply melt as global temperatures incrementally rise. And why should the peoples of this region not find for themselves another natural resource that can be exchanged for apples, which they receive via ships from Spain? Gabie is working with the Sustainable Energy Research Group at Southampton University to ensure a new form of refrigeration can take place for the ice – solar powered cells and cool water add to the puzzle in these climatically-confused times. Source

You can see more of Neville’s work here: http://www.nevillegabie.com/

Martyn Amos of Manchester Metropolitan University photographed for the universities ‘Success’ magazine.

Dr Martyn Amos is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing and Mathematics at MMU specialising in biocomputing.

If you’re interested in biological engineering or ant-based computing (and who isn’t?) you can read Martyn’s blog here.

A recent portrait shoot for Manchester Metropolitan University at Heat Trace in Frodsham

Following BlackLab’s inaugural event at Manchester’s An Outlet, we were invited by Abandon Normal Devices to pitch for their Gleaners set of commissions working with the North West Film Archives. Despite being short-listed we didn’t make the final cut but if you click on the eye above, you can see a 6 minute version of the 40 minute film we presented at Trawling the Visual Wreckage.

From a recent visit to the Cawdor Road estate in Eccles