RICHARD ALLAWAY
Lecturer – BA (Hons) Photography
Qualifications:
PhD Practice-Based Arts (2027), University of Huddersfield
MA Practice-Based Arts (2015), York St John University
PGCE (2013), Teesside University
BA Hons Contemporary Fine Art Practice & Contextual Studies (2011), York St John University
Richard Allaway is an artist and researcher whose practice spans experimental photography, installation, and site-specific performance. His work is deeply rooted in the rural landscapes of northern England, where walking becomes both a creative act and a research method. Through these embodied journeys, Richard explores how soil and terrain hold speculative energies and unseen networks that shape ecological relationships.
Currently undertaking a practice-based PhD at the University of Huddersfield, Richard investigates how intimate walking experiences can reveal these hidden systems and how they might be translated into installation art. His methodology, which he terms Autoethnographic Unearthing, combines sensory engagement with scientific and artistic processes, such as soil chromatography, analogue photography, and live earth batteries, to create work that responds to the invisible electrical energies beneath our feet.
Richard’s research and practice have been shared widely through exhibitions and conferences across the UK and internationally, including Nature-Arts Interconnections at West University of Timișoara, Romania, and New Aesthetic Expressions: The Social Role of Art at Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. His work seeks to reframe soil as a communicative system, exploring how human and non-human relationships can foster care, collaboration, and new ways of understanding the land.
Exhibitions
2024: ‘Pineapple Black Summer Show’ Middlesbrough
2022: ‘Practice 22’ Middlesbrough
2019: ‘Otherness’ Middlesbrough
2018: ‘Middlesbrough Art Weekender’, Middlesbrough
2018: ‘Stockton Contemporary’, Stockton – On – Tees
2017: ‘Middlesbrough Art Weekender’, Middlesbrough
2016: ‘999’, York Old Fire Station, York.
2015: ‘Illuminating York Festival 2015’, York.
2015: ‘Matter Place An Other’, Gallery 202
2015: ‘IMIMA’ Gallery 3, Carlisle.
2015: ‘Allaway & Jones’, Studio 3, York.
2015: ‘Bungalow’, York.
2014: ‘White Rubbish’, The House of Blah Blah, Middlesbrough
2014: ‘Allaway & Jones’, ‘Illuminating York Festival’ York
2014: ‘Allaway & Jones’, ‘Light Night’, Leeds
2014: ‘Allaway & Jones’, AVEC Building, Sheffield
2014: ‘Allaway & Jones’, Artemis House, York
2014: ‘100 Years & We Will All Be Dead’, Mill Lane, York
2014: ‘Work 2 Rule’, Stonegate, York
2013: ‘Illuminating York Festival’, York
2013: ‘Experiential Space’, Gilkes Street Studios, Middlesbrough
2012: ‘The GSA’, Gilkes Street Studios, Middlesbrough
2012: ‘Pop Print & Stitch’, Marburae Gallery, Macclesfield
2012: ‘Saltburn Arts Fair’, Saltburn
2011: ‘The Manchester Art Crawl’, Piccadilly House, Manchester
2010: East Street Arts ‘STRIFE’, Leeds
Conferences/Symposiums
2025: Research & Scholarly Activity Conference, The Northern School of Art, Hartlepool, UK
2023: New Aesthetic Expressions; The Social Role of Art, Jagiellon University, Krakow, Poland
2022: Nature-Arts Interconnections, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Publications
2019: A5 Zine – December Edition
2019: NARC – October Issue #155
2019: RBTV – #29
2019: Sculptorovox – Vol 3
2017: WOTISART – October Edition
2017: A5 Zine – April Edition
2017: Average Art Magazine – April Edition
2017: CA Magazine – March Edition
2016: ARTicul Action – Anniversary Edition
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