Charles William Meecham

Date of birth: 3/11/1950.

Studio address: 11a Nanholme Mill, Shaw Wood Rd, Todmorden, Lancs. OL14 6DA.
Tel: +44 (0)1706 819212
Email: charlie@nanholme.demon.co.uk

QUALIFICATIONS

M.Ed by Research - University of Leeds 2004.

BA Photography BIIP (1st class Hons) Manchester Metropolitan University 1974.

TEACHING PROFILE

Specialist experience in photographic theory and practice with particular knowledge of technical processes and presentation techniques regarding lens based imaging through using conventional photographic chemical processes and digital media pathways. My teaching experience also includes an ability to help students extend ideas, to do visual research, consider copyright issues and output pathways that best help them reach their intended audience.

PREVIOUS RESEARCH

The Integration of the Digital Camera in Schools. This research looked at how teaching and learning at secondary level can be enhanced by students being given the opportunity to make photographs using digital cameras that relate to the subject being taught. I was interested in how, through this integrated process, students can be helped to engage more fully with the subject, raising the standard of their written work and enhancing their IT skills. I further considered if this process assists teachers in meeting the criteria set out in the curriculum. More recently with the adoption of the white board, there is an increased opportunity for students to create and work with their own visually created content in a group situation.

CURRENT PROJECTS

Founder member of the Bradford Grid. This is primarily a visually led project involving a core group of 12 photographers who are committed to a long term topographic survey of Bradford and its surrounds. This project is designed to investigate the potential for an alternative view represented by images and associated text. Aims include exhibitions, publication and continuing dialogue on the WEB.

Also working on a new photo essay called 'Perfect'. This project explores the relationship we have to space in the summer such as the spaces people create on the beach. The photographs also consider the arrangement of space from the point of view of the photographer and the photographed as seen when people take pictures such as at moments when an image is made to celebrate arrival and to evidence being there.

MAJOR RESEARCH PROJECTS AND SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

The Changing Land 1976 MOMA, Oxford and Whitechapel, London.
Pennine Upland Series 1980 ICA, London.
Moors and Reservoirs 1983 Fellowship Exhibition, Oldham Art Gallery.
Passages of Time 1984 Mid Pennine Arts Commission.
Man Made Landscape 1986 Dean Clough, Halifax.
The Oldham Road 86-87 Cornerhouse Manchester, Oldham Art Gallery and Architectural Association, London.
New North 1990 Group exhibition Tate Gallery, Liverpool.
The Forest Tract 1994 British Council Residency, Malaysian National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur.
E20 Project 1998 Photo Arts 98, Media Centre Huddersfield and Quay Arts Hull.
Halifax at Night 2000.

Work in selected publications:

The Oldham Road 1987. Architectural Association, London.
Things 2004. Ed Mark Haworth-Booth and Marina Warner. Jonathan Cape and the V&A, London.
Mapping The Landscape 1990. Department of Art History, University of Nottingham.
Using Digital cameras Within Secondary Education: A case Study 2005. Bradford School of Art.

‘Enhancing The Curricular’ 2004. Annual conference paper in Barcelona for Centre for Learning and Teaching in Art, Design and Communication.

Member of the International Visual Sociology Association, BECTA on line research group, the Arts and Humanities Data Service and SPE - The Society of Photographic Educators.

WORK IN PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

Arts Council of GB, British Council, Countryside Commission, North West Arts, Mid Pennine Arts, Oldham Art Gallery, Leeds Education Loan Scheme and The Victoria and Albert Museum.