- Venue
- Online
- Date
- Monday, October 28, 2024
01:00 PM - Address
- Zoom
- Location
- Across UK
- Organiser
- Animate Projects
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This session will explore sustainable practice for experimental animation. Led by Lauren Orme, Director, Cardiff Animation Festival, we’ll hear about CAF’s Planet Positive initiative, and from artists Lewis Heriz, Dominica Harrison, and Kim Noce, about their approach. We’ll also explore the potential for creative power to contribute to making change.
Lauren Orme is an award-winning animator and director based in Cardiff. She is the Festival Director of Cardiff Animation Festival. Lauren studied animation at the University of Wales, Newport, and has been based in Cardiff since 2010. In 2014, Lauren founded Cardiff Animation Nights, showcasing animated short films from the international festival circuit to a thriving audience in Cardiff, before co-founding Cardiff Animation Festival in 2018. Lauren is also Creative Director of Pick Animation, an animation studio in Cardiff which she co-founded in 2018. Picl is one of the first animation companies in the UK to become a certified B Corporation.
Lewis Heriz is a cross-disciplinary artist whose animation work is informed by his background in music, theatre, printmaking and the study of semiotics. He completed his MA in Experimental Animation from the Royal College of Art in 2021 with the award-winning short film project So Long, which was developed and expanded into a sculptural installation as part of the Out of Hand group exhibition during Fringe Arts Bath, 2023. The project’s central concern – how the attention economy forces us to neglect the environment at the very moment it needs us most – found its optimistic response in the alternative systems practiced by the Hannah Fields community, documented in On Hannah Fields (2024).
Dominica Harrison is an award winning international artist currently based in UK. She specialises in animation direction and illustration, with a particular focus on printmaking. She is interested in storytelling as a mechanism of learning and social change and exercises play as the main approach to creating work. She draws back from the old forms of storytelling – the myths, the legends, the songs and the cosmogonies. Her film ‘Chado’, made with the support from BFI Network, was longlisted for BAFTA 2021 and toured UK with two solo shows showcasing printmaking work from the film. Dominica is interested in presenting her films in the art and design spaces, working in the intersection between animation, performance and installation.
Kim Noce is a multimedia artist specialising in animation. She has directed award-winning films and led significant projects blending cultural heritage with immersive technology. Her work emphasises social justice, and she currently serves as Course Director for the MA Animation at UAL. Kim has a background in animation, fine arts, and scenography, and her career focuses on creating innovative, socially impactful art.
