The Bumforth Manor Collection

• Photographer
  Nick Simpson, United Kingdom
• Studio
  Nick Simpson Photography

My work seeks to express visually a fascination with stories
steeped in the bizarre, the erotic and the fantastic. Stories are
told through an eclectic collection of clues; - fictional objects,
artifacts and curiosities, cause the narrative to hover between
the real and the imaginary. By careful planning, these richly
detailed photographic tableaux are devised to invite the viewer
to at first question, and then piece together the whole story for
themselves.
In this latest body of work; ' The Bumforth Manor Collection ' I
present a collection of photographs as though recently
discovered in the attic of an imagined, long-deceased relative...

Awards Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London (Group show) April 2015. Stephen Romano Gallery , New York (Group show) Dec 2014. The Photographer’s Association Awards, Design Centre, London. Sept-Dec 14 TheYoung Masters Art Prize, Sphinx Fine Art & Lloyds Club, London. Oct 14 Pictures from an Attic,The Proud Archivist ,London (solo). June 2014  Weirdness at Bumforth Manor, Oakley Lodge, London W11. May 2014 Weirdness at Bumforth Manor - Bristol Festival of Photography (solo). Dec 2013 Medici Gallery, Cork Street, London, W1. April 2012 Unreliable Evidence - Bristol Photo Festival (solo).