Richard Glover has been photographing architecture and other aspects of the built environment since the early 1990s, when he first arrived in London and began work as an architectural photographer. Now based in Sydney, Richard has continued to combine commercial commissions with producing personal work that adopts a more interrogative perspective on the contemporary urban landscape.
His commissioned assignments reflect his drive to help the designer communicate their ideas, and to attract an audience with thoughtful, striking and surprising images. In addition to being directly commissioned by designers, Richard also produces architectural images for the general and specialist press, working with magazine and book publishers, online journals and websites.
Clients include:
Sydney – Architecture Australia, Archrival, Bates Smart, Candalepas Associates, Collins & Turner, Cox, DCM, H&E, Hector Abrahams, Historic Houses Trust, Indesign Media, JPW, Luigi Rosselli, MSJ, MCK, NSW Land & Housing Corporation, Shiro Architects, Stanic Harding, Thomas Isaksson, TZG, Tzannes
UK/International – Architectural Review, Conran Octopus, Ben Kelly, Blueprint, Diverse Interior Architecture, Desiño Interior, Domus, Ombrae, Emess Lighting, Foster & Partners, Ian Hay, John McAslan & Partners, John Pawson, Nitzan Design, Obumex, Phaidon Press, Reading & West, Sheppard Robson, Simon Dance Desi, Tate Modern, Thames & Hudson, The Independent, The Times, Volpato Hatz, Wallpaper*
During his career as an artist Richard has turned a distanced and reflective eye on many different kinds of structure. These range from the monumentally industrial spaces of the defunct Bankside Power Station in the years before it was transformed into the calmly iconic Tate Modern, to the relentlessly aspirational ‘McMansions’ of Sydney’s new suburbs, and the poignant, unacknowledged manhole covers of London’s pavements. Behind all these images is a focus on noticing and critiquing what might otherwise go unnoticed and unquestioned.
Alongside his commercial and personal practice, Richard also teaches photography, in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney, and at the Australian Centre for Photography.
Selected Exhibitions:
2019 Pingyao Photography Festival, China
2018 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast
2018 Unconscious Places – Photography and History, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney (curated by Dr Donna West Brett)
2018 Couplings, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney (curated by Brad Buckley & Helen Hyatt-Johnston)
2018 The View From Here, PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra
2017 (solo) Paradise, Contact Sheet Gallery, Sydney
2017 Black Lines, Black Eye Gallery, Sydney
2016 Time-Space-Existence, European Cultural Centre, Architecture Biennale, Venice
2015 Social Gallery, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2014 De Colori, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney (curated by Thomas Loveday)
2011 Transience, Arles Photography Festival Open Salon, Arles, France
2010 The Stranger’s Eye, Peloton Gallery, Sydney (curated by Donna West Brett)
2010 (solo) Suburban Frontier, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
2008 Blake Prize (Finalist), Sydney
2008 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2005 (solo) Suburban Frontier, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
2003 House of Exquisite Memory, State Records Office, Sydney
2002 Building Sites: London Architectural Photography, Zilas Gvardes Nams, Riga, Latvia
2000 (solo) Tate Transformation: Bankside to Modern, Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery, London
1997 Original Film, Association of Photographers, London
1996 Inside Bankside, South London Gallery, London
1995 A Gallery in the Making, Tate Britain, London
1993 (solo) Manhole Covers, The Barbican Centre, London
1992 (solo) The Façade, Architectural Association, London
His commissioned assignments reflect his drive to help the designer communicate their ideas, and to attract an audience with thoughtful, striking and surprising images. In addition to being directly commissioned by designers, Richard also produces architectural images for the general and specialist press, working with magazine and book publishers, online journals and websites.
Clients include:
Sydney – Architecture Australia, Archrival, Bates Smart, Candalepas Associates, Collins & Turner, Cox, DCM, H&E, Hector Abrahams, Historic Houses Trust, Indesign Media, JPW, Luigi Rosselli, MSJ, MCK, NSW Land & Housing Corporation, Shiro Architects, Stanic Harding, Thomas Isaksson, TZG, Tzannes
UK/International – Architectural Review, Conran Octopus, Ben Kelly, Blueprint, Diverse Interior Architecture, Desiño Interior, Domus, Ombrae, Emess Lighting, Foster & Partners, Ian Hay, John McAslan & Partners, John Pawson, Nitzan Design, Obumex, Phaidon Press, Reading & West, Sheppard Robson, Simon Dance Desi, Tate Modern, Thames & Hudson, The Independent, The Times, Volpato Hatz, Wallpaper*
During his career as an artist Richard has turned a distanced and reflective eye on many different kinds of structure. These range from the monumentally industrial spaces of the defunct Bankside Power Station in the years before it was transformed into the calmly iconic Tate Modern, to the relentlessly aspirational ‘McMansions’ of Sydney’s new suburbs, and the poignant, unacknowledged manhole covers of London’s pavements. Behind all these images is a focus on noticing and critiquing what might otherwise go unnoticed and unquestioned.
Alongside his commercial and personal practice, Richard also teaches photography, in the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building at the University of Technology Sydney, and at the Australian Centre for Photography.
Selected Exhibitions:
2019 Pingyao Photography Festival, China
2018 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, HOTA Gallery, Gold Coast
2018 Unconscious Places – Photography and History, Grace Cossington Smith Gallery, Sydney (curated by Dr Donna West Brett)
2018 Couplings, Dominik Mersch Gallery, Sydney (curated by Brad Buckley & Helen Hyatt-Johnston)
2018 The View From Here, PhotoAccess Gallery, Canberra
2017 (solo) Paradise, Contact Sheet Gallery, Sydney
2017 Black Lines, Black Eye Gallery, Sydney
2016 Time-Space-Existence, European Cultural Centre, Architecture Biennale, Venice
2015 Social Gallery, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
2014 De Colori, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney (curated by Thomas Loveday)
2011 Transience, Arles Photography Festival Open Salon, Arles, France
2010 The Stranger’s Eye, Peloton Gallery, Sydney (curated by Donna West Brett)
2010 (solo) Suburban Frontier, Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland
2008 Blake Prize (Finalist), Sydney
2008 ABN AMRO Emerging Artist Award, Sydney
2005 (solo) Suburban Frontier, Tin Sheds Gallery, University of Sydney
2003 House of Exquisite Memory, State Records Office, Sydney
2002 Building Sites: London Architectural Photography, Zilas Gvardes Nams, Riga, Latvia
2000 (solo) Tate Transformation: Bankside to Modern, Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery, London
1997 Original Film, Association of Photographers, London
1996 Inside Bankside, South London Gallery, London
1995 A Gallery in the Making, Tate Britain, London
1993 (solo) Manhole Covers, The Barbican Centre, London
1992 (solo) The Façade, Architectural Association, London