UTTER NONSENSE

Exhibition and launch of Utter Journals 4 & 5 now on at Skippings Gallery, 133 Kings Street, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2PQ. Open from...

Utter Journal 5 is now back from the printers. Although a slimmer version than previous Journals it is looking fantastic. All the Utter...

The few items I’ve brought together for Utter Journal 5 are still with me, were all made in Europe [apart from the typewriter], still in...

Finishing off on the photography for Utter Journal 5, Object. What is the object? Immeasurable principle or material presence? The scale...

As humanity begins to unlock it's good to remember the solitude, the quiet, the skies and the clear air. Lockdown Sky I, Mark Cator, 2020...

The benefits to nature during lockdown have been profound. The clear skies, no cars to hear, clean air and a slowing down of humanity's...

I have a love hate relationship with the heron. They have quirky characters and fascinating to watch in flight but their predatory habits...

The great crested grebe are late risers in the morning. Each day I go out on the kayak I pass snoozing couples of grebes who are visibly...

The mute swan has a near faultless image of marriage bliss and family life but as with all animals during the mating and breeding season,...

I watched these two terns spiral higher and higher into the sky, jockeying with one another, and couldn't decide whether they were merely...

One of the most exciting moments is the arrival of the Common Tern. They arrived a month ago and, within a two or three day margin, do so...

5am, moon setting over church, Cassiopeia in a high arc above the house, bittern booming, tawny owl calling, deer barking, Cettis...

James Joyce wrote that, "places remember events." Our garden is a three-quarter acre plot of land. I've photographed this area, or more...

The last day of the virtual exhibition was yesterday. Utter Journal 4, Garden can be ordered off the website and you can pick up some of...

With the coronavirus still wreaking havoc the Garden Exhibition has had to be cancelled. As has the launch of Utter Journal 4, Garden. In...

I’m torn between the serious minded, or humour. To spin a yarn, or to write a weightier tribute to the aesthetic intricacies and endless...

To the wire but artwork complete and deadline met ... just! It's the last minute scramble, late night changes, typos, then doubt. I love...

With no interuptions and plenty of cancellations I've had more time than expected to work on Utter Journal 4. The next issue, now...

I've printed 500 images these past two weeks and have a further two weeks to get the artwork/text ready for the printers by the 6th...

I told a friend that the next issue of Utter Journal will be titled, 'Garden', "but don't expect any gardening tips, or how to's", I...

“This recombining of the verbal and the visual, full of my own kind of unpeopled portraits, sought to salvage what I considered...

Martin Gusinde recorded the cultures of the indigenous people living on the archipelago of Tierra Del Fuego betwen 1919 and 1924: the...

“The Jens pictures began as an experiment. To photograph a young boy in many of the positions that Andrew Wyeth painted the model Helga;...

The nights are still long enough to spend time watching films and looking up recently published, or recently found, photographic books....