Julian McKenny Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom
A fine artist and photographer using paint, collage and assemblage based in Pembrokeshire, west Wales. I studied Fine Art (Painting) at Canterbury and have an MA in Photography from DeMontfort University, Leicester.
Artwork
Clouds of Worry, Clouds of Woe, Photography zine, 2025, £12.00 including P&P
Disrupted Interiors, Found and scavenged materials, 2023, £ on application
The Exploitation Series, Acrylic on ply and found materials, 2025, £ on application
Tidal Races, Acrylic and homemade charcoal on canvas or ply, 2025, £350 each
Projects and exhibitions
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My First Still Life, Vol 201/02/2026 — ongoing A self-produced zine of still life photographs where I chose objects that would not normally be considered suitable subjects for this kind of photography. |
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Patterns of Empire01/02/2026 — ongoing Patterns of Empire is a self-produced zine that house two co-joined projects - Pure and Emphatic, which run from either end of the publication and meet in the middle. Part of a larger body of photographic work that reflects on building our own straw bale house, they are typographic images of found sherds of pottery, turned up on site during the... [Read more] |
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Quantum Entanglements01/02/2026 — ongoing Conceived during lockdown, Quantum Entanglements is a self-produced zine that partners the words of Donald Trump during his first term in office with 'drawings' that are photographs of jetsam found on local beaches. Something in these entangled drawings connected with the insanity of his words, sometimes also looking like portraits, and I... [Read more] |
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Rocks That Dream - Portraits of the Preseli Hills01/02/2026 — ongoing Rocks That Dream takes modernist conventions of photographing landscape and undermines it with the notion of pareidolio, the experience of seeing faces, animals and phantasms in rocks and clouds. The Preseli Hills in Pembrokeshire, home of the bluestones at Stonehenge, are shown to be haunted by these creatures in my self-produced photo zine. |
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Google Distorta01/02/2026 — ongoing I happened to notice a run of images on Google Streetview where the camera had a problem and was distorting all the cars it passed. The self-produced publication Google Distorta simply shares these images and leaves us to reflect on how the advent of Google has distorted our world in wider ways. |
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Clouds of Worry, Clouds of Woe01/11/2025 — 31/03/2026 A self-produced photographic zine and exhibition in Llandeilo. |
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Upstream01/10/2025 — ongoing I was commissioned by CELF and the National Museum of Wales to make a photographic project on plastic pollution in the oceans and in response to two pieces of related work that they hold in their collections. My response was to work locally, looking at the Afon Teifi (River Teifi) and its entrance to the sea at Cardigan (Aberteifi - mouth of... [Read more] |
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