MPhil Research Degree Birds & Film
Royal College of Art 2009-2012

M.A. POSTGRADUATE DEGREE PHOTOGRAPHY
Royal College of Art 1992-1995
Awarded an extra year to work with digital imaging techniques within fine art practice
Exchange student SVA New York

DIPLOMA ART & DESIGN (PART-TIME)
Sir John Cass School of Art, City Poly. 1990-1992

CERTIFICATE IN FOUNDATION ART & DESIGN
Sir John Cass School of Art, 1989-1990

B.Sc. HONS. GEOGRAPHY North London Polytechnic 1981-1984

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COMMISSIONS:

2010 An Observation of Flight Artisancam website commission

2009 The Flowers of the Mansion Tatton Park Biennial Website www.tattonparkbiennial.org

2008 The Park In Winter Arts Council England

2008-9 Early Birds, Animate & Channel 4 TV

2007 From the Archive, Permanent Video Projection Main Reception University College Hospital London

2006-7 About Running, Bupa Great North Run, Moving Image Commission

2006-7 Stone Voices, Sculpture in Woodland Commission, Devil’s Glen, Ireland

2005-6 Horses, Permanent Animation for Octav Boctar Wing, Great Ormond St NHS Hospital

AWARDS:
2004-5 Wellcome Trust SciArt Research and Development Award Abstract animations to relieve stress

2002 London Arts Board individual artist award

1998-2000 Fellowship in Printmaking, Wolverhampton University funded by the Henry Moore Foundation

PRIZES:
1994 Joint Winner First Prize John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award International Award for Photography, exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery, London

1993 First Prize South Bank Photo Show London wide award for Photography exhibited at the Royal Festival Hall, London

RESIDENCIES:

2016 Mothership Residency, Dorset

The Mothership

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2000/2001 Year of the Artist (YOTA) residency Cleeve Abbey funded by DA2 English Heritage South West Arts

2015– to present CENTRAL ST. MARTINS, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, LONDON

Visiting Lecturer MA Contemporary Photography: Practices and Philosophy

Developed and deliver curating installation workshops

One to one tutorials and group crits.

1996– to 2020 CENTRAL ST. MARTINS, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, LONDON

Short Courses

Regular Evening Class Introduction to the Mac
Regular Evening Class, Maximum Photoshop,
Lecturer Summer  School Computers and Graphic Design


2009 – to present ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
College wide Photoshop training

see software training pages for more detail

1997 – to 2012 LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATIONS
Visiting Lecturer Part-time MA Photography One to one tutorials and group crits.

November 2007-December 2007 WESTMINSTER UNIVERSITY
Visiting Lecturer BA Photography Identity ModuleOne to one tutorials and group crits.

October 2002 – Feb 2004 SURREY INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN
0.5 Senior Lecturer BA Hons Photography

1995 – 2002 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Visiting Lecturer Photography Department

2000– 2003 UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE visiting lecturer BA Hons Applied Art (Lens and Digital Media)

2002 LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING
second year tutor BA Hons Photography,

2001 LEAD ARTIST ON D@Y.T PROJECT.
In collaboration with the Photographers Gallery and Edexcel.

2001ANIMATION WORKSHOP SERPENTINE GALLERY
Devised and taught a digital animation workshop for Deaf Young Adults ( working with a sign language interpreter).

1999 – 2002 KENT INSTITUTE OF ART AND DESIGN
Regular visiting lecturerPhotography departments Maidstone and Rochester

1998 ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART
Part-time Lecturer Computing Department 1995/1999 Basic Mac & Photoshop & Internet Skills to groups from all disciplines across the college. Intro., Intermediate and Advanced levels Staff training sessions, Photography and Printmaking

1997 – 1998 RICHMOND COLLEGE (THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY, LONDON)
Part time lecturer Digital Image making (Fine Art Dept.)Wrote and developed course syllabus.

1995 – 98 TOWER HAMLETS COLLEGE OF FURTHER EDUCATION
Lecturer Computing and Fine Art
Photoshop Lecturer to Photojournalists
Visiting Lecturer Digital Photography

1996 INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF PHOTOGRAPHY NEW YORK
Leader Visual Narrative Workshop “From Duane Michals to Dallas” Wrote and taught this intensive workshop about the history of visual narrative in Western Art. Within the frame to sequential narrative. How film narrative is constructed with special emphasis on Soap Operas.

1995  –  1997 BOURNEMOUTH AND POOLE COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN Visiting Lecturer HND/CED Photography Department Regular visits, one to one Tutorials 1996BBMember Periodic Review Panel / Photography 1997

Guest/One off Lectures:

2011
BA Fine Art Media UNIVERSITY OF CREATIVE ARTS Maidstone
International Womens Day Talk Great Western Studios, London

2010
Adobe Inspired Media Talk, CENTRAL ST. MARTINS, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, LONDON

2008
FALMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN MA Media Art

2007
CAMERWELL SCHOOL OF ART MA Printmaking

2006
NOTTINGHAM TRENT BA Photography

2004
FALMOUTH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN BA Photography  BA Fine Art

2002
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSTIY BA Photography  BA Fine Art
BRIGHTON UNIVERSITY BA Editorial Photography
SOUTHAMPTON INSTITUTE BA Photography 2001

2000
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY  BA Photography
FALMOUTH COLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN BA Photography
TUNPIKE GALLERY Public Lecture to accompany exhibition
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE NORTHAMPTON BA Fine Art

1999
IMPRESSIONS GALLERY York
CHELTNEHAM AND GLOUCESTER SCHOOL OF ART BA Sculpture

1998
A NEW SPIN ON THE FOTONOVELA, Camerawork San Francisco
LONDON GUILDHALL UNIVERSITY Interactive Arts MA
HENRY MOORE FELLOWSHIP LECTURE University of Wolverhampton
OBSERVER HODGE LECTURE (London College of Printing)
DIALOGUES AT THE HAYWARD GALLERY: HENRI CARTIER BRESSON
UNIVERSITY OF WEST ENGLAND BA Photography/ Interactive Multimedia
FARNHAM COLLEGE (West Surrey Institute of Art and Design) BA Photography

1997
SACI (Studio Arts Centre International) Florence Italy
FLORENCE TRUST (Talks for Artists) London
NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY BA Photography
LONDON COLLEGE OF PRINTING BA Photography
NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY  BA Photography
NAPIER COLLEGE EDINBURGH BA Photography

1996
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OXFORD Speaker Oxford Photography Digital Artists Lecture Series
TROWBRIDGE COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN Photography Department
GWENT COLLEGE OF HIGHER EDUCATION  BA Photography Department

SOLO PUBLICATIONS:
2005 The return of the native Film and Video Umbrella ISBN 1 90427 013 1 with essays by Nicky Coutts and Stephen Moss

the time for talking is over catalogue published by the University of Hertfordshire ISBN 1 898543 45 3

1999 Suky Best Presents” These are Restless Times,” a short moving picture WAL ISBN 1 902770 10 2 Commissioned by make magazine to be distributed with their March/June issue 1999, funded by West Midlands Arts, the Light House and the University of Wolverhampton

1997 Suky Best Presents” Dorigen’s Promise” PHOTO-LOVE Vol. 3 Festerman Press ISBN 0-9518293-6-X Commissioned by Aberdeen Art Gallery for Fotofeis ‘97 and funded by the Scottish Arts Council.

1997 PHOTO-LOVE! Volume 2 That was then…This is now! Festerman Press ISBN 0-9518293-3-5 Funded by grants from the Kobal Foundation and the Arts Council of England

1995 Suky Best Presents, PHOTO-LOVE Volume 1 Festerman Press ISBN 0-9518293-2-7

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2010
Pour Le Roman-Photo Jan Baetens  Les Impressions Nouvelles ISBN 978-2-87449-100-9
2008
Silicon Fen with texts by Iain Sinclair, Sean Cubit and Tom Williamson ISBN978-1-904270-27-0
Interview animatetv channel 4 21 September
Through a glass, darkly The Independent  19 September 2008
2007
Keep On Onnin’ Contemporary Art at Tate Britain  ISBN 9 781854 3777 08
Towards a New Ease Fotomuseum Winterthur Switzerland catalogue
Re Print Photolove Vol 1 Foam Magazine Spring #10
Great North Run Cultural Program catalogue ISBN978-0-9551203-1-2
Wicklow People June 21 2007
2006
Naturaleza: PHE06 catalogue La Fabrica
Within & Without Tulca catalogue
2005
The Guardian Guide Preview May 7-13
The Independent The Information May 21-27
Once they’re gone, they’re gone… Bedfordshire on Sunday May 8 2003
The old tombs are the best. Observer 31.8.03
2002
Independent on Sunday Review “Watch the Birdie” 14.3.02
Hot Tickets (Evening Standard) 22.March
Zoo 13 Magazine and DVD ISBN 1-84118-034-3
Artist project Cube Magazine (Japan) ISBN 4-309-90446-7
Artists Newsletter “Ten Journeys” review November
Art Monthly “East 2001” Review September
2001
The Guardian Guide Previews, 14. 4. 01
Proof Magazine Suky Best Spring
Artists Newsletter “Artists Save the world?” April 2001
Interviewed “Whats going on” HTV 2.2.01
Metro Newspaper, Art Review 19.10 00
The Guardian Guide Previews, 14.10.00
Independent on Sunday Review “In the realm of the senses” 10.12.00
Interviewed documentary BBC Knowledge August 2000
365 Year of the Artist in the South West eds Butler,Hallet,&RawsonISBN0-9538000-6-72000
Coil 9/10 It had been a quiet day ISBN1-901540-05-7
1999
Interviewed for Watching  a new TV series to be Broadcast in 2000 on BBC2
Feature in Foto 12 December 1999 Dutch Photography magazine
1998
Suky Best-Photo Love  by Andrea Hernandez Moxie Magazine San Francisco November98
Portfolio  the catalogue of contemporary photography in Britain Plates p 26/27 #27 June 98 ISBN-1354-4446
Interviewed “The Usual Suspects” BBC Scotland Arts Magazine Programme in Scotland 8/4/98 Inadmissible Evidence Maria Webster on Suky Best make magazine Nov-Feb 1998
Art Choice Postcards from the  Cutting Edge  The Scotsman Newspaper 7.4.98,  I
nadmissible Evidence  reviewed The List Magazine 16-30 April
“Bit by Bit, Photographic Anxiety” Dr. Susan Edwards  The History of Photography Journal, Spring 98
In the Frame, Christopher Kelly The Back Hill reporter Feb. 98
1997
Exhibit  G p 30-33 Thurn & Taxis, issue #2 ISBN 0-9526789-1-8
Interview on German television Kulture Sudwest  8.7.97 Art program Mit ironischer Distanz  Otfried Kappeler Sudwest Presse, vom 29 July 1997 Augenfrutter fürs Volk Andreas Langen Stuttgarter Zeitang vom31 July 1997 Gehversuche gegen den Uhrzeigersinn Neu-Ulmer Zeitung vom1 August 1997 Die Di-Bilder am Morgen danach  Georg Linsenmann Schwäbische Zeitung vom1 September 1997
John Kobal Photographic Portrait Award 97 Catalogue interview and feature of past winners)ISBN 1-899823-04-2
Hot Tickets Preview Photo-Love 2 The Evening Standard 18.2.97
Photo-Love Vol. 2 by Suky Best reviewed by Colin Jacobson The Art Review April 1997
Photo-Love Vol. 2 reviewed Michael Mack The Art Book Vol. 4 Issue 3 June 1997
Photo-Love Vol. 2 reviewed  The Big Issue Feb 3-9- 1997 No 218
Never Walk Alone  reviewed by Gianmarco DelRe Flash Art Jan 1997

ROYAL MAIL Designed and made  a new concept in postal stamps for 1998

MAID (Market And Information Database) 1996Design and implementation of Internet Interface

IBM DIRECT (Europe) Commission for Advertising Department 1995

PLOWDEN AND SMITH 1988- 1995 Freelance Conservator/ Restorer,
Restoring Contemporary Fine Art and decorative objectsCarving precious and semi-precious materials, including ivory, mother of pearl, chagrine,working on contemporary sculptures including work by Naum Gabo, Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, Jeff Koons, Rodin, Degas, Giacommetti
Made and installed displays for;
The Art of Africa Royal Academy Permanent Collection
Design Museum
Bank of England Special exhibitions
First World War Exhibition Imperial War Museum
Second World War Exhibition Imperial War Museum
National Maritime Museum
National Gallery

METRO MODELS 1987- 1988
Making commissioned  special effects models for Advertising photographs and commercials.  From design to completion.Developed specialised polyester casting skills. Was chief mouldmaker.

GAVIN LINDSAY & ASSOCIATES 1987
Modelmaking for advertising.

ASYLUM MODELS AND EFFECTS 1986
Modelmaking for television commercials and film animation using a wide range of materials and techniques.

FACTO MODELS
Modelmaking for advertising. 1986

STEPHEN EINHORN 1986
Modelmaking for advertising.

TETRA DESIGN SERVICES 1986
Working on Architectural Models and production prototypes.

R.W. MODELS 1986
Working on Architectural Models and production prototypes.

PARALLAX MODELS 1985
Architectural and advertising modelmaking.

STALL HOLDER COVENT GARDEN MARKET 1984/85