John Myers

Biography
View works. John Myers, Woman in striped dress seated, 1974
Woman in striped dress seated, 1974
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Born 1944, Bradford.
John Myers lives in Stourbridge, UK
John Myers studied Fine Art under Richard Hamilton with a particular eye on Sculpture.He came to photography in 1972, turning his lens on the people and places in his native Stourbridge and surrounding places in the Midlands. He took around 1800 images in the ensuing decade, ceasing his photographic work entirely in around 1985.John’s photographs have a distinctly British feel,deadpan and unencumbered by hidden meaning, and yet as a body of work they reveal something about the 1970s British soul, a way of seeing the world through photography which is now rightly taking its place in British photographic tradition and wider visual culture.

 

Solo Show

2017 The End of Manufacturing, Foto/Industria, Bologne, Bologne, Italie

2014 John Myers 33 portraits, 14 Boring photographs, 10 televisions, 8 sub stations, 6 houses, 3 furniture stores and one girae, Gallery of Photography, Dublin

2011 John Myers Middle England, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham

1990 The Dudley Experience, De-Industrialisation, Unemployment and Enterprise in Dudley M.B.C. 1979-1983, Dudley Art Gallery

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 Ritratti, Collection Florence & Damien Bachelot, Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento italiano, Turin, Italie 

2022 10 years !, anniversary exhibition (collective), Galerie Clémentine de la Feronnière, Paris, France 

2020 The End of Industry, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris

2019 Home Sweet Home, Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France

2008-2010 Unpopular Culture, Grayson Perry selects from the Arts Council Collection Eight venues across United Kingdom

1987 ‘State of the Nation’, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry ‘Heroes’, AIR Gallery, London

1985 Impressions Gallery, York

1980 ‘Arts Council Collections’, Hayward Gallery, London

1978 Midland Group, Nottingham

1973 Serpentine Photography, Arts Council, Serpentine Gallery, London

1972 3rd British International Print Biennale, Bradford

 

Bibliography

The End of Industry, John Myers, RRB publishing, 2019

Looking at the Overlooked, RRB publishing, 2019

The Portraits, RRB publishing, 2018

John Myers Middle England, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2011

The Dudley Experience, De-Industrialisation, Unemployment and Enterprise in Dudley M.B.C. 1979-1983, 1990

Seeing the Unseen, the high speed photography of Dr. Harold E. Edgerton, 1976 Middle England, 1974

Works
  • Mr and Mrs Seabourne
    Mr and Mrs Seabourne
  • Young Girl
    Young Girl
  • Peter Olley, Jessie and Eve
    Peter Olley, Jessie and Eve
  • Ballerina
    Ballerina
  • Motorcyclist and combination
    Motorcyclist and combination
  • Robert
    Robert
  • Green Lane, Lye
    Green Lane, Lye
  • Young boy at house on ring road
    Young boy at house on ring road
  • Nicolas and Donny, Osmond
    Nicolas and Donny, Osmond
  • Ben
    Ben
  • Michelle
    Michelle
  • Young boy with ball
    Young boy with ball
  • Woman in striped dress seated
    Woman in striped dress seated
  • Louise
    Louise
  • The Bed
    The Bed
  • New Industrial Estate, Lye
    New Industrial Estate, Lye
  • Dyson's Brickworks with Hayseech foundry, Brierley Hill
    Dyson's Brickworks with Hayseech foundry, Brierley Hill
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