Dominic Rouse Born : .. Place of Birth :  UK Residence : Thailand Concept : Life can be likened to a movie that is shown only once to a captive audience of one, a darkened room in which the level of illumination is a decision for the solitary occupant. But even the widest prairies have electric fences and beyond the wires leads me to blunder up against the wires whose muscle-shredding violence knows no mercy. The perfect prison is the one in which the inmates have been convinced that really they are free. Society is such a confinement: the result of a binding contract made unwittingly between government and governed; I find myself attracted to neither camp. The guardians of society are troubled by their own shallows; the fears they have of others are the fears they have about themselves cunningly repackaged to increase their market appeal. The artist, on the other hand, is unafraid of his depths and if you offer him the chance to exchange the gift of his imagination for the mediocrity that passes for happiness in the lives of most others he will not make the trade. He will tell you that imagination is the instrument of self-knowledge. I am not seeking approval, as a sense of worth should be independent of the approbation of others. What I hope for is an acceptance of that unique quality which is the province of every soul, the discovery of which reveals that facet of creation reserved exclusively for it alone. Art is not made by men and women who are wise, but by those in search of wisdom and to search at all is wisdom enough. Knowledge of oneself is the most that we can know. And saying so to some means nothing; others it leaves nothing to be said. EDUCATION 1999 IDEA Awards London UK 2000 IDEA Awards London UK 2001 Benham Gallery Seattle USA Sink Gallery Denver USA Judy Hines Gallery Holt UK Fresh Art Fair London UK British Art Exhibition Zurich SWI St Giles Street Gallery Norwich UK 2002 Plus One Gallery London UK Sink Gallery Denver USA Schneider Gallery Chicago USA Buckenham Gallery Southwold UK Galeria ArteXArte Buenos Aires ARG Gables Yard Gallery Pulham Market UK Benham Gallery Seattle USA Neues Rathaus Linz AUT 2003 Center for Photographic Art Carmel USA Photo San Francisco USA 2004 Honolulu Academy of Arts USA Fotofest 2004 Houston USA Limner Gallery New York USA Foto Arte Brasilia BRA 2005 Gallery 1401 Philadelphia USA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art USA 2006 Benham Gallery Seattle USA Peninsula Museum of Art Belmont USA Micaela Gallery San Francisco USA Art of Photography Show San Diego USA Art of Digital Show San Diego USA Center for Photographic Art Carmel USA 2007 Gallery 24 Berlin GER Artrom Gallery Rome ITA Seattle Erotic Art festival USA H Gallery Bangkok THA Schot Gallery Florida USA Art Now Miami USA 2008 Photo LA Los Angeles USA McDermott Gallery Siem Riep CAM Petcharat Garden Hotel Roi-Et THA Icebox Gallery Minneapolis USA Viewpoint Gallery Sacramento USA Benham Gallery Seattle USA 21c Museum Louisville USA Pyro Gallery Louisville USA 2009 Farmani Gallery New York USA Awards 1984 BIPP Student Award Winner UK 1985 Benson & Hedges Gold Awards UK 1986 The Challenge of Glass Winner UK 1999 IDEA Awards Winner (Best Colour Print) UK 2000 IDEA Awards Winner (Manipulation/People) UK 2002 Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant Recipient USA 2003 International Photography Awards First Prize (Special Photography) USA 2004 Discoveries of Fotofest USA BW Spider Awards USA The Photo Review Competition USA 2005 The Photo Review Competiton First Prize USA Black and White Magazine Gold Award USA Artrom Gallery Digitally First Prize ITA LACDA Interational Juried Competition First Prize USA 2006 Ultimate Eye Foundation Grant Recipient USA BW Spider Awards Portfolio Series First Prize USA 2007 Prix de la Photographie Paris Fine Art First Prize FRA Palm Springs Photography Festival First Prize USA 2009 Xto Image Awards Winner USA Publications 1985 The Photographer 01/09/85 UK Marketing 05/12/85 UK 1986 The Photographer 01/01/86 UK Creative Photography 01/10/86 UK Anglia Television News Feaure UK 1999 IDEA Awards Book 17/10/99 UK 2000 IDEA Awards Book 17/10/00 UK 2001 PhotoArt International #22 01/02/01 UK Digital PhotoArt #12 01/03/01 UK Zing Magazine #15 Spring Issue USA Lenswork #36 01/07/01 USA 2002 British Journal of Photography 16/01/02 UK British Journal of Photography 13/02/02 UK British Journal of Photography 17/04/02 UK Austrian Super Circuit Catalogue July '02 AUT Foto Mundo #410 Aug '02 ARG XII Encentruos Abiertos Catalogue Aug '02 ARG Gables Yard Gallery Catalogue Aug '02 UK Fotorevista Web Interview 10/08/02 ARG Buenos AiresHerald Interview 11/08/02 ARG Canal @ TV Interview 15/08/02 ARG 2003 Carmel CPA Newsletter Spring '03 USA Carmel CPA Fine Print Program 2003/4 USA 2004 In Celebration of Light Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce (ISBN 0-937426-62-8) USA Correio Braziliense Brasilia 19/06/04 BRA PhotoFest 2004 Exhibitions Catalogue (ISBN 0-9718044-1-9) USA 2005 The Photo Review #27/2 USA Incredible Eyes (ISBN 0-9674898-5-7) USA B&W Magazine Annual USA BW Spider Awards Calendar USA 2006 BW Magazine #45 USA PHOTO Magazine Romania 2007 World's Greatest BW Photography USA PX3 Annual FRA Silvershotz Vol 4 Ed.3 AUS Phot'Art Magazine FRA After Image Magazine USA 2009 Traversing The Orient THA Asian Geographic SIN Direct Art Vol 16 USA Title : The cunning for unreason Title : Dominic 04 Title : Dominic 05 Title : Dominic 06 Title : Dominic 08 Title : Dominic 09 Title : Empty Temptress Title : Dominic 11 Title : Dance for no-one Title : Ecce Home Title : Lionise Title : Reasons for attendance Title : The Sorrowful Mysteries Title : Trim Title : Under construction

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