John Farrell

01/07/1990
Bellshill, Scotland
johnfarrellphotos@gmail.com
Education:
First Class BA (Hons) Fine Art Photography with Distinction,
Glasgow School of Art, 2011 2015

Selected Exhibitions:
2016

RSA New Contemporaries 2016, Group Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries,
Edinburgh

2015

The Skinny Showcase at Edinburgh Art Festival, Group Exhibition, Hill St Design
Studios, Edinburgh
Glasgow School of Art Degree Show 2015, Tontine Building, Glasgow
ART SHOW, Group Exhibition, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
Boundary Lines, Solo Exhibition, ijeme Tady Gallery, Glasgow
Scotland Three England One, Group Exhibition, The Art School, Glasgow

2014

Home is Somewhere Else, Group Exhibition, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow

So Far So Good, Group Exhibition, Wasps Hanson St, Glasgow
Hattonrigg Pit Disaster, Solo Exhibition, Bellshill Cultural Centre, Bellshill

2013

Book Show I, Group Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow

Book Show II, Group Exhibition, Richmond Building, Glasgow School of Art
DISTILL, Group Exhibition, Richmond Building, Glasgow School of Art
DISTILL, Group Exhibition, Grace and Fyfe Clark Gallery, Glasgow

2012

REPROGRAPHIC, Group Exhibition, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow

2010

Berlin > Glasgow, Group Exhibition, The Goethe-Institut, Glasgow

Publications:
2015

Nazi Punks Fuck Off! Hand cut 7 Vinyl Record, Edition of 10

Pedestrian Recording, Hand cut 7 Vinyl Record, Edition of 10
Glasgow School of Art Fine Art Photography Degree Show 2015,
Self-Published Catalogue, Edition of 500

2014

Home is Somewhere Else, Self-Published Artist Book, Edition of 20

2013

Hattonrigg Pit Disaster 1910, Self-Published Artist Book, Edition of 20

Collective, Self-Published Catalogue, Edition of 200

Professional Development:

Artist in Residence as part of Foco/Phoco Collective at the Environmental Art Festival

Scotland, Kettleton Byer, Dumfries and Galloway.
Director of Photography on the promotional music video for De Rosas 2015 single
Chip On My Shoulder, in collaboration with Kris Boyle.
Organised and presented a seminar on the film and video works of Robert Frank in
collaboration with Lesley Punton and the Glasgow School of Art.
Guest speaker at Talk See Photographys Curatorial Slam at the Centre for
Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
Invited to deliver an artist talk at Bellshill Cultural Centre in collaboration with Culture
NL on the occasion of my exhibition Hattonrigg Pit Disaster 1910.