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Latest news about projects, exhibitions and publications can now be found on my new blog: http://tessabunneynews.wordpress.com
September 2008 I'm excited to announce that I am one of four North Yorkshire Artists selected to take part in phase one of Connections North, an International Residency Exchange Project in Jyväskylä, Central Finland in October. Organised by Art Connections (http://www.art-connections.org.uk) the project involves a proposed international residency programme for four North Yorkshire artists and four Finnish artists and is supported by Arts Council England and the Finnish partner organisations. I am now a member of Lightstalkers, a network for journalists, filmmakers, photographers and professional travellers so you can see where in the world I am at any time! http://www.lightstalkers.org/tessa-bunney
August 2008 An image from Hand to Mouth is now featured on photobetty - a website dedicated to stories about women by women photojournalists. Check it out on http://www.photobetty.com
I will be in Romania from 28th August to 7th September travelling to Maramures and Bucovina to deliver the decorating roller back to the Manta family in Botiza which was used to create the room installation in the Hand to Mouth exhibition and give some books to people who participated in the project. If you need to contact me please ring my mobile 07850 740254 as I won't have access to my emails during this time. May 2008 We will be leaving Hanoi on 1 May, taking a two week holiday and then arriving back in UK on 17 May so please get in touch after this date, although I will be checking emails when possible.
Tomorrow (8 April) I will be embarking on a 6 day trip to Yúnnán province in Southern China. Very much looking forward
to seeing and travelling amongst mountains again after spending
so long in flat landscape of the Red River Delta! March 2008 Images from my Home Work project are featured in the Project Assistance Award pages in this weeks British Journal of Photography, 5.3.08
The current issue of Source magazine which was published in December has a review of Hand to Mouth at Impressions Gallery. Simon Denison writes: "As the EU's objections to Carpathian food-processing practices centre on work done by hand (milking, cheese-making, slaughtering) it seems fitting that so many of Bunney's pictures focus on her subjects' hands. One might mischievously point out that most of them have a full set of dirty fingernails, which gives pause for thought. Yet these hands provide a sympathetic portrait of a community; each pair distinctive, marked by hard physical labour but capable of great tenderness, as they gently offer up whatever they are holding to the camera. Most notable are those of a rheumatic elderly woman crocheting what looks like a black and white bag, her index finger holding the thread just blurring with slight movement. Seen so close, particularly in the enlarged exhibition print, these are soft, holdable hands, our mother's or grandmother's hands. It is a moving picture, a deeply loving portrait. Indeed this entire series of images could almost be seen as a paean to the usefulness and vigour of age, and Bunney a descendent of Emerson and Strand in her desire to restore dignity to rural people has delivered a reprimand to the ageism that suffuses our Western culture and will no doubt come to these mountain regions before long."
January 2008
 December 2007 The Hand to Mouth exhibition has now finished but you can still purchase the book from Impressions Gallery for £15 plus £3 postage. Further information about touring venues later. If you would like to see some reviews of the work please visit: Redeye website: http://www.redeye.org.uk/redeye/newsdetail.asp?uvarnewsID=266 Essay by Sophie Wright appears in the October issue of HotShoe magazine. http://www.hotshoeinternational.com/documentary_details.do?b=104 There will be a review of the exhibition in Source magazine in January and a review of the book in foto 8 in March. More details to follow.
November 2007 We have now arrived back in Hanoi, Vietnam and will be here until 2nd May. To keep in touch with how work is progressing with Home Work please visit my blog at http://tessabunney.wordpress.com where you will be able to see images from my previous visit and leave comments and feedback about the new work.
October 2007 I am pleased to announce that I am now represented for print sales in the USA by Klompching Gallery, New York
Hand to Mouth The first exhibition of Hand to Mouth is currently on show at Impressions Gallery, Bradford until 2 December 2007. A 142pp publication accompanying the exhibition is now available from the gallery at a special exhibition price of £12.50 (+ P&P). Further information about the exhibition is available on http://www.impressions-gallery.com  Hand to Mouth explores the lives of villagers and nomadic shepherds in Romania's Carpathian Mountains. Made over a period of four years, Tessa Bunney worked closely with these communities, spending prolonged periods in villages and shepherd camps. As the title suggests, these people survive precariously by their own labour, bringing a new reality to our often idealised notion of self-sufficiency. Bunney takes us on a journey through the seasons, witnessing the changing landscape and the rhythms of rural activities: cheese making, crop harvesting and sheep milking. Her photographs reveal a way of life that is at times idyllic, yet often harsh. With Romania's new EU membership and its associated health regulations, this mountain culture, rich in traditions linked closely with the land, is now under threat.
A feature about Hand to Mouth will appear in the next issue of HotShoe out in October with an essay by Sophie Wright of Magnum Photos.
Home Work Plans are coming along for organising a touring exhibition of Home Work - domestic labour in the suburbs and villages in and around Hanoi, Vietnam. I will be returning to Vietnam in November for six months to continue this work.
August 2007 Thank you to Pippa Oldfield at Impressions Gallery, Bradford for nominating me for the Northern Arts Prize. The shortlist will be announced in September. For further information about the prize please visit http://www.northernartprize.org.uk
May 2007 Two Special Edition Prints from the series Made in Vietnam are now available to purchase through the Pavilion website. For further information please visit http://www.pavilion.org.uk/gallery_SEP.html
The long awaited Focus on Farmers - Art and Hill Farming book has now been published. The book features work from my (and 7 other artists) residencies on Exmoor and Dartmoor hill farms during 2003. Copies can be order via the Aune Head Arts website: http://www.auneheadarts.org.uk/dartmoor/index/html  January 2007 Images from 'Made in Vietnam' are currently featured on The Pavilion Online Gallery http://www.pavilion.org.uk 2 special edition prints from this series will be launched by Pavilion in May. See Pavilion's website for more details. I am continuing to work on this project until I return back to UK in April. For further information please visit http://www.pavilion.org.uk/gallery_SEP.html Click on the link below to see images from 'Made in Vietnam' and find out more information.  December 2006 An article about my work is currently online at www.pdnonline.com We are arriving back in the UK on 19th December for a few weeks then returning to Vietnam around the 10th January until the end of March. November 2006 Hand to Mouth is to be published in the German magazine Frankfurter Rundschau Magazin on Saturday 4th November. September 2006 Tessa, Ian and Noah have temporarily relocated to Hanoi, Vietnam for 3 months. You can contact me on my usual emails and my local mobile no. is 0084 936 110 558 if you'd like to speak to me whilst I am away. August 2006 One of my photographs from Romania, Roadside Stall, Rucar Pass was shortlisted for The Observer Seeds of Change Photography Competition and is on show at the.gallery@Oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, London SE1, until 10 September. It was also published in The Observer on 20 August. July 2006 I will be in Romania from the 22nd to 30th July working on the ' Hand to Mouth' project. Working with a translator we will be travelling through part of the Carpathian Mountain range camping with shepherds we meet on our journey. June 2006 Images from 'Green Fingers' are featured on The Pavilion Online Gallery www.pavilion.org.uk and are currently on show at the Round Foundry Media Centre in Leeds until 6th July. 'Hand to Mouth' was recently shortlisted for the Descubrimientos Award at PhotoEspana 2006, International Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, Madrid. A total of 60 photographers were chosen to participate in the Portfolio Review held on 2 and 3 June 2006 and a collective exhibition is on show at Matadero Madrid until 2nd July. More info is available from www.phedigital.com 'Moor and Dale' is a featured project in Chris Dickie's new book PHOTO PROJECTS Plan and Publish Your Photography - in print and on the Internet published by Argentum. for more information visit www.picture-box.com Images from 'Moor and Dale' were also published in the March - April 2006 issue of Zoom. |
