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Gareth Hacking

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About Me


Gareth Hacking is an artist, freelance photographer, t-shirt designer and writer living and working in the city of Manchester.
As an artist, he has regularly exhibited in art galleries around Wales and the North West and has organised and run workshops for Big Arts Week and the Merseyside Maritime Museum since graduating from Staffordshire University in 2003. A complete list is available from here .
Past projects include The Colour of Light , a vibrant collection of abstract photography created over a 2 year period. Prints of selected images are available to buy online from Stroon . A portfolio collection is now available from lulu .
As a photographer, Gareth’s assignments include work for CSV , Arts About Manchester and Guestlist . His regularly updated Flickr account can be found here containing over a 1,000 photographs covering a variety of events and subjects. He is also a member of Camera Culture Manchester .
As a t-shirt designer, Gareth is responsible for Boxman, currently available to buy from Arkadash , from their online store and their shops in Chorlton, Manchester and Headingley, Leeds.
As a writer, Gareth has contributed articles and reviews to GK News , ijourno and H2G2 and still contributes reviews to the Internet Movie Database on occasion. He also writes a regularly updated blog/photo diary .
For more information, please visit www.garethhacking.com .
All photographs and content copyright of Gareth Hacking

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My Blog

One door closes, another opens...

Hello Myspace,   According to the little box thing, this is blog entry number 100 on here.   It's also probably my last.   As of this post, I'm moving the blog over to blogger. I've g...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:20:00 PST

New Exhibition: Slap Dash Publishing Launch

Last year, I created a Colour of Light book with the help of Slap Dash Publishing and which is on sale through Lulu.com.   The rest of books have now been finished and there will be an ...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Fri, 06 Jun 2008 04:55:00 PST

North South Divide presents..., Ruby Lounge, May 29th - Review and Photographs

There's a new review by me over on Guestlist here: http://guestlistmusic.blogspot.com/2008/06/north-south-divid e-presents-ruby-lounge.html A couple of things I have to add before we get to the photos....
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Thu, 05 Jun 2008 09:56:00 PST

BUPA Manchester 10K: Update

Well, I did the run this morning and completed it in 46 minutes and 8 seconds. That's according to my stopwatch but once I find out my offical time I'll post that on here as well. So if you ...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Sun, 18 May 2008 11:07:00 PST

New exhibition: Re

I've contributed a book to  'RE:' - an open exhibition of experimental artists books that is running from Monday 12th  Thursday 29th May at The Gallery, The University of Northamp...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Thu, 15 May 2008 12:39:00 PST

DePaul Live at Big Hands

There's a new review up on the guestlist blog, this time of DePaul Live at Big Hands, Oxford Road on May 1st. You can find it here. Also, I'd reccomend heading over and having a look at the DePaul web...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Sun, 11 May 2008 10:21:00 PST

Running the BUPA Great Manchester Run

I'm running in this year's BUPA Great Manchester Run, which is taking place in just under three weeks time on Sunday, May 20th. I'm also raising money for Marie Curie in memory of my father ...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:37:00 PST

Designer Magazine at Night & Day

My review and photographs from last Tuesday's Designer Magazine night at Night & Day is now up on the Guestlist blog. You can read the full review there along with a couple of photos of photos but...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:19:00 PST

Festival Friendly interview

My interview with Festival Friendly is now online here: http://www.festivalfriendly.com/2008/04/photo-of-the-week-no -7-contd.html...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:22:00 PST

As featured in Blankpages...

My artwork is being featured in the new issue of Blankpages, the Blank Media newsletter. It's available to download as a .pdf from their website.  ...
Posted by Gareth Hacking on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:01:00 PST