Arnatt’s decision to begin calling himself a photographer was in a sense the starting-point of this exhibition of photographic work, ‘I’m a Real Photographer’, but he could hardly be said, in the earliest works shown here, to have abandoned the Conceptual rigour of his earlier work or its arch and telling humour…
With no announcement or further commentary, WDR 3 television inserted into the programmes showing between 11 and 18 October 1969 a series of nine photographs depicting Arnatt gradually sinking into the ground…
born in Oxford in 1930.He studied at the Oxford School of Art 1951-55 and the Royal Academy Schools, London 1956-58. He taught at Liverpool College of Art 1962-65, at Manchester College of Art 1965-69 and in the Fine Art Department, Gwent College of Higher Education 1969-90. He now lives and works in Wales…