R O G E R S U C K L I N G
Statement, links and bio
Roger Suckling’s work is based around themes of location/place/ and autobiography/identity, using photography and moving image to explore place and time, to map a visual account of both the present and the past. A process of revisiting and recording significant locations is combined with a contemporary documentation of the everyday, offering a reinterpretation with new meanings and connections that attempts to make a universal image beyond the personal.
He has contributed to Film Free and Easy, an artist led group that stages events offering a platform for artists’ film, video, performance and installation work.
His practice is informed by working in collaboration with other artists.
He has worked in community/participatory arts, further and higher education and in freelance media production.
Roger Suckling is based in Nottingham, England and has a studio at Primary.
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He has contributed to Film Free and Easy, an artist led group that stages events offering a platform for artists’ film, video, performance and installation work.
His practice is informed by working in collaboration with other artists.
He has worked in community/participatory arts, further and higher education and in freelance media production.
Roger Suckling is based in Nottingham, England and has a studio at Primary.
- rogersuckling@gmail.com
- +44 7512 249 453
- Film Free and Easy: filmfreeandeasy.co.uk
- Primary: weareprimary.org
Exhibitions / Collaborations
2023
Artists Meet | Being Present Sharing Event. Primary, Nottingham, UK. 14 December 2023. Primary
Exhibition Being Present. Artists Meet collaboration project. Bethlem Gallery, London. 31 January - 13 May 2023. Being Present.
Documentation. Something Amazing Will Happen. Rachel Jacobs and Frank Abbott
Launch Party, video, collaboration with Titus Davies. Cove Park
2022
Exchange 2. Collaboration with Sylvia Waltering.
Documentation. When This Tree Blossoms. Rachel Jacobs and Frank Abbott
2021
Self Portraits, Looking Back to 1981. Exhibition, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
Collaboration. Artist Meets. Bethlem Gallery/Primary,with Courtney.
2020
Documentation Pete Ellis. Yes, Transfixing. Light Night, Nottingham
2019
Leicester Print Workshop. Film Free and Easy event
Collaboration. Expanded Studio Project. Belfast/Nottingham, with Gerard Carson. Exhibition PS2, Belfast.
Documentation Belen Cerezo, residency The Collection, Lincoln
Documentation. Pete Ellis,3 Trugs from Wilkos. Light Night Nottingham.
Radical Film Network conference. Workshop. University of Nottingham
Documentation. Rewilding. Performance by Frank Abbott at Back to Base, Film Free and Easy event
2018
Documentation. The making of "When this tree blossoms ..." Project by Rachel Jacobs and Frank Abbott
2017
WALL. Everything Flows, exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
2016-2022
Work shown at Film Free and Easy events.
Primary, Nottingham,
Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester
Waddington, Lincolnshire
Derby. Furthest from the Sea
2008
Self. Solo exhibition and lecture. College of Fine Arts, COFA, Sydney, Australia.
2007
Parade, Out of Place. Curated group exhibition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
2006
Walk to Work. Solo exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham,
2004
Space/Self. Solo exhibition and lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CV
2009 on
Individual and collaborative art practice
2001-2009
University of Lincoln, Senior Academic, Principal Lecturer, Senior Lecturer
1994-2001
De Montfort University, Head of Studies, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer
1993-1994
Lincoln School of Art and Design, PT Lecturer
1990-1993
Freelance work, Photography, Video, Consultancy
1990-1993
Part Time Teaching.
Nottingham Trent University, BAHons Creative Arts.
Derbyshire College of Higher Education BAHons Creative Film.
Nottingham College of Performing Arts
1989-1993
Short course teaching programme. AVEK, Finland
1989-1990
Intermedia Film and Video Nottingham, Workshop Director.
1983-1989
Nottingham Video Project, Workshop Director.
1979-1983
Nottingham Community Arts Centre, Project Manager and Photographic Arts development.
2023
Artists Meet | Being Present Sharing Event. Primary, Nottingham, UK. 14 December 2023. Primary
Exhibition Being Present. Artists Meet collaboration project. Bethlem Gallery, London. 31 January - 13 May 2023. Being Present.
Documentation. Something Amazing Will Happen. Rachel Jacobs and Frank Abbott
Launch Party, video, collaboration with Titus Davies. Cove Park
2022
Exchange 2. Collaboration with Sylvia Waltering.
Documentation. When This Tree Blossoms. Rachel Jacobs and Frank Abbott
2021
Self Portraits, Looking Back to 1981. Exhibition, New Art Exchange, Nottingham
Collaboration. Artist Meets. Bethlem Gallery/Primary,with Courtney.
2020
Documentation Pete Ellis. Yes, Transfixing. Light Night, Nottingham
2019
Leicester Print Workshop. Film Free and Easy event
Collaboration. Expanded Studio Project. Belfast/Nottingham, with Gerard Carson. Exhibition PS2, Belfast.
Documentation Belen Cerezo, residency The Collection, Lincoln
Documentation. Pete Ellis,3 Trugs from Wilkos. Light Night Nottingham.
Radical Film Network conference. Workshop. University of Nottingham
Documentation. Rewilding. Performance by Frank Abbott at Back to Base, Film Free and Easy event
2018
Documentation. The making of "When this tree blossoms ..." Project by Rachel Jacobs and Frank Abbott
2017
WALL. Everything Flows, exhibition, Millennium Gallery, Sheffield
2016-2022
Work shown at Film Free and Easy events.
Primary, Nottingham,
Leicester Print Workshop, Leicester
Waddington, Lincolnshire
Derby. Furthest from the Sea
2008
Self. Solo exhibition and lecture. College of Fine Arts, COFA, Sydney, Australia.
2007
Parade, Out of Place. Curated group exhibition, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham.
2006
Walk to Work. Solo exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham,
2004
Space/Self. Solo exhibition and lecture, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
CV
2009 on
Individual and collaborative art practice
2001-2009
University of Lincoln, Senior Academic, Principal Lecturer, Senior Lecturer
1994-2001
De Montfort University, Head of Studies, Senior Lecturer, Lecturer
1993-1994
Lincoln School of Art and Design, PT Lecturer
1990-1993
Freelance work, Photography, Video, Consultancy
1990-1993
Part Time Teaching.
Nottingham Trent University, BAHons Creative Arts.
Derbyshire College of Higher Education BAHons Creative Film.
Nottingham College of Performing Arts
1989-1993
Short course teaching programme. AVEK, Finland
1989-1990
Intermedia Film and Video Nottingham, Workshop Director.
1983-1989
Nottingham Video Project, Workshop Director.
1979-1983
Nottingham Community Arts Centre, Project Manager and Photographic Arts development.