Gavin Blake is the founder and Director of the Centre for Creative Photography now located in Hendon South.Australia. He started the school in 2021, it has grown to become the state’s foremost deliverer of accredited photographic education. Gavin holds a BFA from the South Australian School of Art (1980) and an MFA from the University of Delaware (1990). Blake has been an artist, educator and arts worker here and in the United States since 1977, lecturing, workshopping and administrating on art and art-related topics at the South Australian School of Art, TAFE SA, the Adelaide Central School of Art, the University of Delaware, the Art Institute of Philadelphia, amongst other institutions, before founding the CCP where he now permanently resides. He has exhibited his work in Australia, Europe and the Unites States. “I am so lucky that Fine Art found me at a very early age as it enriches my life every day” say Gavin. “As an educator, it’s extremely important to encourage others that art is something that’s accessible to everyone either as practitioners, volunteers or spectators and to this end it’s an honour and a privilege to have been involved with an astounding amount of art projects either as a practitioner, curator, judge and facilitator. I have not missed a day’s work in all of this time and I’m certainly looking forward to every bit of time ahead because with art, you just cannot be too sure just what lays ahead around the next corner”.