Alan Knox is a London based conceptual photographer whose work explores the feeling of the sublime and uncanny. A graduate of the Glasgow School of Art where he was the recipient of the Chairman's Medal, in 2015 he was named as a finalist in the Daniel Blau Gallery's 5 Under 30 exhibition and the Jill Todd Photo Award, whilst being chosen as one of 20 art graduates selected for Creative Review’s UK-wide talent spotting feature in association with JCDecaux and Creative Translation. His practice has been published extensively, including in the British Journal of Photography, Financial Times, BBC In Pictures, Creative Review, GUP, Fotografia and the Scottish Society for the History of Photography, alongside having been exhibited internationally. Prints from his Universal Sympathy project are held in the permanent collection of the Glasgow School of Art

CV

Education

2013-15: The Glasgow School of Art
BA: Communication Design (Photography),
1st Class Honours

2010-2012: City of Glasgow College,
HND: Professional Photography

Awards

Magenta Foundation Flash Forward Award, 2016

Daniel Blau Young Photographers Competition 2015

Chairman's Medal for the School of Design,
Glasgow School of Art, 2015

Dissertation Prize for the School of Design
Glasgow School of Art, 2015

Nominated: Newbury Award,
Glasgow School of Art, 2015

City of Glasgow College / StreetLevel Photoworks Award,
City of Glasgow College, 2011


Press

Phases Mag
09/2016
Der Greif - Artist Feature
05/2016
FotoFilmic
02/2016
GUP Magazine
12/2015
Fotografia Magazine
12/2015
Fotografi,
10/2015
Ignant
07/2015
Creative Review: Gradwatch,
07/2015
Intern Magazine,
07/2015
Der Greif, Guest Room: Kim Knoppers
06/2015
British Journal of Photography, Projects: Universal Sympathy,
07/2015
Financial Times, Special Reports: London and the World, Global Property Insight, The Future of the University - 10/2014
BBC News In Pictures: Scottish Referendum: The View from the Border
09/2014
Goose Flesh, Volume 3 - 05/2014
Independent on Sunday: Young Photographers Alliance UK Group Show - 06/01/2013

Exhibitions

Festival Circulations, 104 Centquatre, Paris, 01/2017

Tabula Rasa (group show),
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, 12/2016

Uncertain States,
Mile End Pavillion, London, 11/2016

Magenta Foundation: Flash Forward 2016,
Division Gallery, Toronto: 10/2016

Peripheral Histories (group show)
The Lighthouse Glasgow: 08/2016

Royal Scottish Academy Open Exhibition,
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh: 11/2015-02/2016

Jill Todd Photo Award. (group exhibition),
Stills Gallery, Edinburgh: 10/2015-01/2016

Tabula Rasa, (group exhibition),
Kaunas Photo Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania: 10-11/2015

Origins: Photo UK India, (group exhibition),
British Council Gallery, New Delhi, India: 10/2015-01/2016

Futureproof, (group exhibition),
Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, 08-10/2015

5 Under 30, Group Exhibition
Daniel Blau Gallery, London, July 2015

Working the Border, Group Exhibition
Peter Potter Gallery, Haddington, UK; May, 2015

Work in Progress: Glasgow School of Art, Communication Design
The Lighthouse, Glasgow, February, 2015

Working the Border, Group Exhibition,
Carlisle Photo Festival with StreetLevel Photoworks, Carlisle, UK, November, 2014

Celebrating Europe, Group Exhibition,
Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania, September, 2014

Goose Flesh 3 group show,
Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow, May 2014

Young Photographers' Alliance US Annual Show
Calumet Gallery, New York, February 2013

Young Photographers' Alliance UK Annual Show
Margaret Street Gallery, London, January 2013

City of Glasgow College End of Year Show, Barras Art and Design Centre, May, 2012

Trove – New Documentary Photography, Group Show, The Good Spirits Company, Glasgow, April 2012

Postcards form the Park Group Show, Mile End Art Pavilion, London, September 2008

Commissions:

National Archives of Scotland, 2013,
Philips Lighting, 2011,
North Lanarkshire Council Parks Department, 2008