Dr Henry Bond

I am a now-retired Sussex-based former photographer and non-fiction author. You can see my photos that are in the Tate Gallery collection if you look here. And you can look here to read more about my doctoral thesis as was published by MIT.


Art Collection

536 or, in full, The Admiralty Chart 536 Art Collection is a collection of contemporary art comprising works created by artists residing in, or responding to, the geographical area covered by the Admiralty nautical navigation chart number 536. The chart documents the Strait of Dover and the portion of the British coastline that runs from Beachy Head to Dungeness. Beachy Head is infamous as the most popular suicide spot in the worldby number of jumpers from the cliff-top annuallywhilst Dungeness beach is well-known for both the imposing now-decommissioning Dungeness B gas-cooled nuclear power-station, and the late Derek Jarman's home-and-garden Prospect Cottage. The stretch of coast mapped includes Eastbourne, Bexhill, Hastings, Camber Sands, Rye, and the military site Lydd Range. Artists represented in the collection include: Kristina Alexander, Emily Allchurch, Ruth Bullock, Joseph Emilien, Ewan Farr, Fay Godwin, Mark Godwin, Richard Heslop, Terry Hulf, Patrick Adam Jones, Julia García López, Tim Nathan, Alan Rankle, Margaret Roberts, Philip Sanderson, Mick Sargent, Maxine Simmonds, Luke Sothcott, Richard Swann, Dawn Timmins, Alice Walter, and John Edward Wright. To get in touch with the 536 Art Collection please use this email.

You can hover over the image here for hi-res of the chart.