Event: Desert Island Pics – Fergus Heron | 15 October 2024 5:30-6:30pm (doors at 5pm) – Edward Street, Room 309

If you are cast away on a desert island and could take only eight photographs, what would they be?

This event, hosted by Snr Lecturer Stephen Bull, roughly follows the format of the radio program Desert Island Discs. An invited guest is asked to imagine themselves castaway on a Desert Island. The castaway can choose eight significant photographs they would take with them. Stephen Bull and the castaway discusses the thoughts behind their choices. Our castaway is photographer and Snr Lecturer Fergus Heron.

Everyone is welcome.

154-155 Edward Street, Room 309

About our cast away

Fergus Heron was born in London and currently lives and works in Brighton, England and Nairn, Scotland, United Kingdom. He studied at the Royal College of Art and the University for the Creative Arts.

Exhibitions featuring his work have taken place internationally at venues including Tate Britain, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Royal West of England Academy, Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark; K3 Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland.

His work is included in the anthology Emerging Landscapes (Abingdon: Routledge, 2014). He selected The Photographers’ Gallery Photography Culture: Photography and Landscape, edited Visible Economies (Brighton: Photoworks, 2012) and is a contributor to A Companion to Photography (Oxford: Blackwell, 2020). Heron is interviewed in Photoworks Ideas Series.

He is Course Leader for MA Photography and a research supervisor in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton, England.