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Laurence Edward Cutting ARCA (1939 to 2013) was a British documentary photographer, collage artist, calligrapher, and art teacher. Initially training as a graphic designer, he had a lifelong interest in typography and calligraphy, and he produced collages from the 1960s through to his death in 2013. He began photographically documenting the horse racing world in the late 1960s and his photography is profiled in Timeframes ^[1] and The Concise History of Photography ^[2] both by Ian Jeffrey

Early life and education

Born in Almelo, the Netherlands, on the 4th December 1939 to an English father (Kenneth Cutting) and Dutch/German mother (Mary Odenwald) he came to the UK at the age of 5 with his mother as a refugee from occupied Holland. After a childhood in Wales and Lewes, Sussex, he joined the Mercantile Marine in 1956. He left the Mercantile Marine in 1958, working as a type compositor for Arthur H Cox and the Davigdor Press in Brighton while living with his mother in nearby Lewes. He attended Brighton College of Art ^[3] in 1959, initially as a day-release student while working at Davigdor Press, and then full time studying ‘Commercial Art’ until 1962. At Brighton, his tutors included engraver and illustrator John R Biggs http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/alumni-arts/biggs,-john-r-1909-1989, graphic designer Harold Cohen, photographer Dermot Goulding, and painter Don Foster who also taught at the Royal College of Art in London. Goulding ignited Cutting’s interest in documentary photography and he became together with Steve Hiett and Richard Doust https://twitter.com/GraphicsRCA50, part of a small group mentored by Goulding known as ‘Dermot’s boys’.

Cutting was one of four Brighton students accepted into the Royal College of Art in 1962, with illustrator Freire Wright, graphic designer Richard Doust, and fellow photographer Steve_Hiett. He studied Graphic Design at the RCA, and appears in ‘graphicsrca: fifty years and beyond’ (RCA 2014 edited by Triggs, Shaughnessy and Gerber) http://graphicsrca.tumblr.com. It was while at RCA that he became interested in the photographing the horse racing world.

Teaching

On graduating from the RCA, Cutting taught Graphic Design part-time at West Sussex College of Art (1965 to 1966) and Brighton Polytechnic (1965 to 1970). In 1968, he gained a part time position teaching Graphic Design at St Martin’s College of Art where he worked until moving to North Yorkshire in 1971. From 1971 to 1978 Cutting taught photography at Manchester Polytechnic. During this time, he had contact with the ‘Manchester student photographers’ including Martin_Parr and Daniel_Meadows, who were to shape British documentary photography for the 1970s and 1980s. Although Cutting did not tutor the Manchester Photography students, Parr, Meadows, writer Rob Powell http://www.rjpowell.org, and others frequented his lectures and Meadows cites him as an inspiration.

In 1978, Cutting took on the role of Head of Graphic Design and Media Studies at Harrogate College of Art, where he taught until his retirement in 1995. He was an early proponent of interdisciplinary approaches to teaching and contact with professional practice before such practices became mainstream, and organised visits from industry practitioners including Peter_Saville_(graphic_designer),Rosalind_Dallas photographer Doug Currie https://dougcurrie.co.uk and others. He continued to teach part-time at Harrogate (Calligraphy) and the University of Maryland, European Division (Art and Photography) from 1995 to his death in 2013.

Design commissions

Cutting supplemented his income as a freelance book cover designer for Robert Hale Ltd, Hodder and Stoughton, Granada Books, Sphere Books, Mills and Boon, Sidgwick and Jackson, and Neville Spearman plc during his RCA years and up until the 1970s. He also had graphic design commissions for Battle Arts Festival 1966 to 1977, East Sussex Education Council, and North Yorkshire County Council Computer Division. He provided the cover art for Michael Moorcock’s first UK edition of the fantasy novel Elric_of_Melniboné_(novel) (Hutchinson 1972). He maintained an interest in calligraphy, and was engaged by English Heritage after 1995 at a number of events and festivals in Yorkshire and County Durham as a calligrapher for event visitors.

Collages

Cutting started making collages in 1959 from found objects and papers in streets being demolished behind Brighton Art College. He quoted Kurt_Schwitters and Robert_Rauschenberg as influences which also fed into his graphic work and photography. Collages became an increasing focus for him from the mid-1990s, and from 1997 he was a regular exhibitor at the annual Five Ways Open Houses ^[4]in Brighton with RCA friend and Five Ways founder Ned Hoskins ^[5]. His later collages brought together ideas on cinema, literary references and childhood memories, often using recycled ‘Golden Age’ DC Comic images from lesser known titles such as Hawkman_(Katar_Hol) and Sgt._Rock in the compositions. His collages are published in Open House Magazine from 1999 to 2014 (which includes an obituary by Ned Hoskins).

Photography

Cutting began photographically documenting the horse racing world from the late 1960s whilst still at the RCA. He was influenced by the work of Walker_Evans and the American Farm Security Administration (FSA)documentarists, and used similar photographic procedures. His work looks behind the scenes, observing the racing world as a cultural enclave with its own rituals and formalised society ^[2]. The temporary nature of the events and the physical infrastructure packed up at the end of the race are contrasted with the apparent permanence of class, rituals and the institutions of racing, and juxtaposed with the natural presence of the racehorses. In the introduction to the catalogue of the 1991 ‘Kentucky Scenes’ exhibition at Yale Center for British Art (USA) and the University Gallery Leeds (UK), historian Ian Jeffrey described Cutting’s photography as “unlike anything now being produced”, embodying an existentialist view of the world “humanised by utensils”. In Jeffery’s view, this was in marked contrast to the social, often satirical observation of photographers fostered by the Arts Council in the 1970s (such as the Manchester Photography Students) and subsequently the colour documentarists fostered by the British Council in the 1980s. Perhaps because of this contrast, and his lack of concern with the ‘state of the nation’, Cutting’s photography has been under-researched to date. His last major photographic project was an exhibition of photographs from Mongolia as a collaboration with Mongolian poet Lkhamdulam Mart (his daughter-in-law) and Mongolian calligrapher Sukhbaatar Davaakhuu in 2005 at the Durham Oriental Museum, UK and Xanadu Art Gallery 2009, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia^[6]. A follow-on project funded by the Arts Council of England, returned to Mongolia looking at similarities and contrasts with the city of Halifax in the UK.

Cutting’s photographic work is held by his widow, Susan Cutting, and he also has works in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (UK), Yale Center for British Art (USA), National Racing Museum (UK), Arts Council England (UK), University of Texas (USA), Leeds University (UK), and Brighton Library (UK)

Cutting was a contributing photographer to Camera Press (UK), Arts Council England, The London Magazine, and BBC Grandstand. His photography has been published in the magazines DU Monatschrif, Switzerland; The Blood Horse, Kentucky USA; Tote Racing Annual; BBC Outside Broadcasting; and the Royal Photographic Society. As well as Timeframe and A Concise History of Photography, his work has been published in Stevens J: Knavesmire: York’s Great Racecourse: Pelham London 1984 and Photography of the World, Heibonsha, Tokyo 1970.

Organised Exhibitions

Exhibitions

References

1. ^{{cite book |last1=Jeffrey |first1=Ian |title=Timeframes |date=1998 |publisher=The Ivy Press |location=UK |isbn=978-0-8174-6015-0 |pages=172,216}}
2. ^¹{{cite book |last1=Jeffrey |first1=Ian |title=Photography: A Concise History |date=1981 |publisher=Thames and Hudson |location=London UK |isbn=9780500181874 |pages=127–128}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://arts.brighton.ac.uk/arts/alumni-and-associates/the-history-of-arts-education-in-brighton/brighton-college-of-art-in-the-1960s|title=Brighton College of Art in the 1960s|website=University of Brighton College of Arts and Humanities}}
4. ^{{cite web|url=https://fivewaysartists.co.uk/|title=Fiveways Artists Group Brighton and Artists Open Houses Trail|website=Fiveways Artists Group}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/hoskins-ned-b-1939|title=Hoskins, Ned, b.1939 - Art UK|website=artuk.org}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=https://xanaduartgallery.org/laurence-cutting-photographs-from-mongolia-exhibition/|title=Laurence CUTTING: "Photographs from Mongolia" - XanaduART gallery|publisher=}}