| Stuart
Haden was born in 1942 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He won
the Art Prize at St. Christopher's Preparatory School
in Wembley Park and the Art Prize at the John Lyon School,
Harrow on the Hill.
After school he studied at the Hammersmith College of
Art and Building, from 1961 to 1964, and the Architectural
Association from 1964 to 1970. He invented and sold "The Rat Race" board game to British Publishing Corporation in 1969. From 1973 to 1977 he
taught architectural design at the Mackintosh School,
Glasgow School of Art, and then at the University of
Texas in Austin from 1977 to 1979. While in Austin,
he began to concentrate on photography, studying under
Garry Winogrand. Four of his colour photographs received
an Honourable Mention in the 12th National Photographic
Competition in 1979, judged by William Eggleston. He
also received an Honourable Mention in the Camden Society
of Architects Photographic Competition 1984, judged
by Fay Godwin, John Donat and Leonard Manasseh, for
five black & white photographs.
Haden has had nine group shows and 11 solo exhibitions
including solo exhibitions at The Third Eye, Glasgow
in 1981 and The Photographer's Gallery, London in 1983.
He was elected Fellow of the Society of Architectural
and Industrial Illustrators in 1985.
He received an Arts Council Grant for documenting
the environment and people of the Borough of Broxbourne.
The work was shown in the Summer Journey 2005 Travelling
Exhibition at the Lowewood Museum and other venues.
In 2005 Haden contributed fifty seven photographs to "Hertfordshire A-Z" by Pamela Shields, ISBN 0-7509-4250-9, published by Sutton Publishing Limited.
In May 2005, Stuart was featured in an atricle for the
BBC about his photography and Summer Journey project
for the Lowewood Museum. Click
here to read the article.
Influences:
Eugene Atget, the Boyle family, Edward Burra, Henri
Cartier-Bresson, Le Corbusier, Donald Evans, Walker
Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Vincent Van Gogh,
Paul Hogarth, William Hogarth, Edward Hopper, Louis
Khan, Fernand Léger, L.S. Lowry, Amedeo Modigliani,
Pablo Picasso, Mies van der Rohe, Kurt Schwitters, Georges
Seurat, John Szarkowski, Jan Vermeer, Alfred Wallis,
Garry Winogrand and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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