Aaron S. Dickson

Aaron S. Dickson was born in 1980 in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He holds a Master of Fine Art Degree in Photography from Ulster University's Belfast School of Art and is a graduate of the New Zealand Film and Television School. The recipient of the Alice Berger Hammerschlag award 2015, Aaron has also been awarded the Royal Ulster Academy Award for Outstanding Students 2016. The work Notes On Hospitals was exhibited as part of the Royal Hibernian Academy's 187th Annual Exhibition 2017; Sony World Photography Awards 2017; Tokyo International Foto Awards in Tokyo in 2017; PhotoIreland Festival in Dublin 2016 and at the Royal Ulster Academy's 135th Annual Exhibition in Belfast 2016.

Artist Statement

I am a visual artist working with lens-based mediums of photography, film and video.

As we negotiate our finite existence in the search for greater things, the effects of modern society upon our various habitats, not to mention each other, are being felt worldwide. My work looks at landscape, environment and some of the spaces that we inhabit and considers modern society’s impact upon the world, each of us and the eternal landscape.

"There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul: we search for its outlines all our lives."

Josephine Hart (1942-2011)