It’s been ages since my last post but, in my defence, the time has been well spent. The collage I’ve talked about in the last few posts is deceptively simple but was tricky to resolve. In the end, what worked […]
Looking forward to attending film event at FILMBAR gästar Blå Båten in Malmo > I’ll let you know what went on. watch this space
Making new work is never easy. Fight the desire to abandon it as a failure. Instead, empty my mind of fixed expectations and play freely with form and materials. Hold my nerve. Persist until something happens. Pin the results on […]
Interview with Terry Bloxham, specialist in ceramics and glass at the V&A Museum and how a stained glass panel in the museum influenced my community art residency in North Kensington
Still shots from ‘In search of the unreal n.01’ Fold, bend, cut Draw a line Overlay, conceal, reveal, interrupt, disrupt The shifting, uncertain image This is the litany to run through my mind whilst I make the series of new […]
In my new filmic collage the one piece of footage exciting me most shows shots of London through a passing train; flickering images, inside then out, a strobing billboard, flashes of colour, light and shade. It creates its own inherent […]
In terms of my new film, the single piece of the footage that excites me most is about shots of London glimpsed through a passing train. It creates flickering images – inside then out – a strobing billboard and flashes […]
How does the new film I’ve just finished connect to my other work of collaged women’s faces? Both are about fracture and disruption – shaking things up to allow space for a hint of the ‘Other’ to seep through – […]
My new film is finally finished! An opportunity swiftly followed that would allow the work to be developed further so I spent most of last week working on the application. The first thing to tackle was the context – what […]
Miranda Pennell’s new 60-minute film, The Host, delves deep into the BP archive to tell a gripping story that examines British colonial history in Iran and the birth of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Chris Sharratt asks the questions.
15/10/15 Gillian Hobson enlightens us about the realm of the uncanny and unknown through her latest light installations at the RED Gallery, Hull (19 Osbourne Street, HU1 2NL) Hobson creates a cosmic space within the pure gallery walls through use of geometric […]
The third edition of the LUX and ICO collaboration bringing artists’ moving image into mainstream cinemas launches with a special screening at Tate Britain. Project manager Adam Pugh and artist Margaret Salmon discuss the continuing relevance of the artists’ short to contemporary audiences.
I’ve been trying to make a revised version of my film since the New Year using new footage shot, but with no success. On the point of abandoning the project as a lost cause, three ideas suddenly free things up. […]
