Commercial work
Still life, product photography, architecture, industrial, people and lifestyle.
Clients have included:
Astra Zeneca, Arriva, AT&T, Batiste, Bisto, BT, Croda Chemicals, Crown Paints, Dr Martens, ghd, Henkel, Jessops, Manchester City Council, Morphy Richards, NatWest, Nissan, Odeon Cinemas, P&O, PZ Cussons (Imperial Leather, Carex, Mum & Me, Original Source, Dacha), RBS, Remington, Rolls Royce, United Utilities, Wickes
BP, M&S and Wild Bean Cafe, Chicago Town Pizza, The Co-operative, Greenhalgh’s Craft Bakery, Iceland Foods, KFC, Morrisons, Muller, Pataks, Pizza Hut, Roberts Bakery, Schar Foods
De Vere Hotels, Holiday Inn, Living Ventures, McDonald Hotels, QH Hotels, The Lowry Hotel
Liverpool FC, Man United FC and Stoke City FC
Clients have included:
Astra Zeneca, Arriva, AT&T, Batiste, Bisto, BT, Croda Chemicals, Crown Paints, Dr Martens, ghd, Henkel, Jessops, Manchester City Council, Morphy Richards, NatWest, Nissan, Odeon Cinemas, P&O, PZ Cussons (Imperial Leather, Carex, Mum & Me, Original Source, Dacha), RBS, Remington, Rolls Royce, United Utilities, Wickes
BP, M&S and Wild Bean Cafe, Chicago Town Pizza, The Co-operative, Greenhalgh’s Craft Bakery, Iceland Foods, KFC, Morrisons, Muller, Pataks, Pizza Hut, Roberts Bakery, Schar Foods
De Vere Hotels, Holiday Inn, Living Ventures, McDonald Hotels, QH Hotels, The Lowry Hotel
Liverpool FC, Man United FC and Stoke City FC
Personal Work
Stuart’s Personal Work can be divided into three different areas: Landscape, Industrial and Still Life.
The themes of his landscape work are quite simply natural elements such as frost, ice, woodland, sand, water and rock structures. Keeping each image as simple as possible to maintain the integrity of the subject matter. The Sand images for example rarely have any indication of scale, and are intentionally abstract, more akin to aerial views of deserts or river deltas. Seen in isolation they appear ambiguous, alluding to such things as muscle fibres or other organic growth.
The Industrial work is part of an ongoing collection, which looks at the hidden world of the industrial work place, both operational and disused. These places are unfamiliar and fascinating, rarely seen by most people. The abandoned places are dark, invariably dangerous spaces, often very unsettling, but ultimately alluring.
His Still Life work is specific and detailed, paring back any extraneous information to concentrate on what he finds most interesting. These can be either ‘found still lifes’ seen in their natural environment or items that have been collected and brought back to the studio. Occasionally this type of work is shown as a series of several images, which can present a more complete study.
He has produced several long-term projects. ‘Flooded Woodland’ for example, explored an area of 'wet' woodland located on the edge of a lake in the Peak District, which explores the seasonal changes over the period of one year. This epic work of 14 huge panoramic images manually stitched together shows the visual transformation throughout the seasons of just one small area and highlights just how different the same place can appear when viewed over such an extended period of time.
“At heart Royse is an explorer, but not one who has to travel far; instead he looks inside and in between the things we think we know. He is often driven to explore things close to home and reminds us that there is always something new to learn about the apparently familiar. With Royse's sense of aesthetics and skills as a photographer, this is always a pleasurable experience.”
Paul Herrmann, Director of Redeye. www.redeye.org