Nick Berkeley is an English photographer, film maker and writer. He was born in London in 1956, the youngest son of the composer Sir
Lennox Berkeley
Sir Lennox Randal Francis Berkeley (12 May 190326 December 1989) was an English composer.
Biography
Berkeley was born on 12 May 1903 in Oxford, England, the younger child and only son of Aline Carla (1863–1935), daughter of Sir James Char ...
and brother of
Michael Berkeley
Michael Fitzhardinge Berkeley, Baron Berkeley of Knighton, (born 29 May 1948) is an English composer, broadcaster on music and member of the House of Lords.
Early life
Berkeley is the eldest of the three sons of Elizabeth Freda (née Bernstein ...
, the composer and broadcaster.
Life and work
As a young man Berkeley played in a band with
Raymond Watts
Raymond Watts (also known by his former stage names Nainz, Nainz Watts and Ray Scaballero) is an English musician, the founding and sole member of the industrial music project PIG, sometimes written as <PIG>.
Watts was an early member and ...
(c.1977) before signing with
Island
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as a songwriter. He later studied photography at
The Arts Institute at Bournemouth
Arts University Bournemouth (abbreviated AUB) is a further and higher education university based in Poole, England, specialising in art, performance, design, and media. It was formerly known as The Arts University College at Bournemouth and The ...
, subsequently lecturing there.
''Time After Time'' (1997), a series of prints created by Berkeley from slit scan race finish camera footage, depicted time elapsed represented spatially. It utilised archive material of race finishes and was widely exhibited. The photographer
Rankin
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and the cinematographer
John Mathieson went on to work with Berkeley, the former curating ''Time After Time'' and Berkeley's series ''The Women'' (1999) at the Dazed Gallery, London.
Berkeley later made two short films, one of which
WARMOVIE- utilised archive footage, much of it shot during the course of a
Lancaster bomber
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raid over Germany. It was first shown at the
Imperial War Museum
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in London. WARMOVIE and SPINNING WORLD were shown at festivals throughout Europe and the UK.
In December 2014
Proud Galleries exhibited a new body of work by Berkeley entitled ''The Wild Ones'', based on treated footage from
Love and Poison
''Love and Poison'' (released 1993) is a live concert video of Suede's show at the Brixton Academy venue on 16 May 1993, notable for performances of songs from their debut album ''Suede'' and early B-sides. It was originally released on VHS and ...
, featuring the band
Suede
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in concert in 1993. ''The Wild Ones'' consisted of a limited edition of C type prints signed by Berkeley and
Brett Anderson
Brett Lewis Anderson (born 29 September 1967) is an English singer best known as the lead vocalist and primary lyricist of the band Suede. After Suede disbanded in 2003, he fronted The Tears with former Suede guitarist Bernard Butler in 2004- ...
. In 2015 Berkeley was commissioned by the BBC to write and present a series on lyrics in popular music. The first episode o
The Escaped Lyricwas broadcast on 31 October 2016 on BBC R4. The five part series was repeated in October 2020 and is available on
BBC Sounds
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. In 2021 Berkeley started an ongoing collaboration with his partner, the artist Anna Best. In October 2022 ''Time After Time'' and ''The Wild Ones'' were exhibited at the
Allsop Gallery in Berkeley's home town, Bridport in Dorset.
A motorcyclist, Berkeley regularly contributes to BIKE magazine and edits the online motorcycle culture magazine BIKERGLORY.
References
External links
Portobello Film Festival
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Photographers from London
Living people
Alumni of Arts University Bournemouth
Year of birth missing (living people)