https://www.ffoton.wales/interviews/2019/9/ron-mccormick-1
“Ron McCormick trained as an artist at Liverpool School of Art and the Royal Academy Schools in London before moving across to photography. He played a significant role in the formation and development of photography galleries across the UK in the 1970’s – including Half Moon Gallery in London, Side Gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne and the original Ffotogallery in Cardiff.
Ron taught on the Newport Documentary Photography course alongside David Hurn and established ‘The Newport Survey’ publication that students worked on as part of their studies – produced over a decade in the 1980’s….”
Commentary
Ron McCormick was a Visiting Fellow in the School of Art and Design at Curtin University in Perth when I was teaching after being a student, all the while engaged in my own efforts to radically reform art and photography education there and in other places in Western Australia.
Ron spent most of his time photographing in the goldfields and other outback locations and three images from those trips are featured in this set of interviews along with his earlier work in the east end of London and south Wales.
Meeting Ron and seeing some of his work led to spending a year in the United Kingdom shortly afterwards, meeting a number of photographers including the great Brian Griffin, stiffening my resolve to continue my reform efforts back in Australia by whatever means possible despite the gatekeepers and power brokers controlling the medium.
Links
- ffoton: Ron McCormick in Conversation with Paul Reas, Cardiff, June 2019 – Part 1
- ffoton: Ron McCormick in Conversation with Paul Reas, Cardiff, June 2019 – Part 2
- ffoton: Ron McCormick in Conversation with Paul Reas, Cardiff, June 2019 – Part 3
- Newport Museum & Art Gallery – Exhibition / Arddangosfa: How Green Was My Valley, Photographs of the South Wales Valleys Landscape by Ron McCormick
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