Mr Richard Billingham
Professor in Creative Industries
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School Arts & Creative Industries
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Department Visual Arts
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Location London
Richard is an award winning artist, photographer, filmmaker and teacher. Work in public collections includes The Metropolitan Museum New York; San Francisco MOMA and the V & A and Tate Galleries London.
He graduated from Sunderland University with a degree in Painting in 1994. During his third year, writer and curator Val Williams included some of his photographs originally made as research for paintings in the show Who’s Looking at the Family? Barbican Art Gallery, London. A year later the Swiss publishing house Scalo published a sequenced collection of photographs taken of his own working class family in the photo book Ray’s a Laugh with a quote from the American photographer Robert Frank. This, together with a paragraph by Billingham printed on the back cover was the only text to the book, the idea being that the images stood by themselves.