There is a discontinuity between me as spectator-traveller and the space of the landscape I journey through that stops me seeing sites as places or from being fully present in them, even when I try tactics to bridge the gap. […]
I’m interested in how my project investigating the experience of the train journey from Marden to London could be interpreted if I read it from Marc Augé’s perspectives on non-places: For Augé, our modern-day environment has undergone such drastic changes […]
I’m interested in how my project investigating the experience of the train journey from Marden to London could be interpreted if I read it from the perspective of Marc Augé’s Non-Places: An Introduction to Supermodernity. Here’s what he says about […]
Online meditative exhibition about a winter journey
Belfast-based artist Seamus Harahan wins the £10,000 Film London Jarman Award.
Tactics: take 30 seconds of film either side of the still. Play it at normal speed, freezing it every 1 second to draw the skyline. I don’t like the mark-making in this – too controlled – lacks expression More […]
Similar tactics as before: use a new still shot, take 30 seconds of film either side of it, play this at 25% speed and draw the results. Repeat this four times, quickly, one after the other. These are the results: […]
Re-mastering of 26 year old film for the University of Warwick 50th anniversary celebrations
I have gathered plenty of film footage, shot as and when so it spans seasons and weather conditions. I’ve surveyed the entire journey down each side of the train from Marden to London and mapped points of interest to shoot […]
Inspiration from a trip to London last week. Rachel Lowe – the impossibility of drawing the landscape as it speeds by (1) Link to a shot of the film footage. Yuri Pattison – dislocation that results from a moving image travelling […]
Fade in. A city landscape. We hear questions being asked by a range of people. Tentative answers are given in response. I’m moving onto Lancaster West estate, what is it really like? It’s the largest estate in the Royal Borough of Kensington […]
I successfully applied new tactics yesterday to my train journey project, surveying the left hand side of the journey from Marden to London. Filming the other half of the trip was impossible as one journey pretty much exhausted the camera […]
A short film made by the V&A Museum Community Artist in residence and screening at the Portobello Film Festival on 5th Sep 2015
So I did it. I created, designed, organised, curated and ran a pretty big arts festival this summer and as it was our first one it is to be considered quite a stinking success. Over nine days we had 19 […]
The use of the monolith in Kubrick’s film creates intrigue. The same with the sound mirrors. It is not clear to most people what they are, until they research them further. That is unless you are an expert in aeronautics. […]
An Additive Mix is by far the most ambitious installation I have ever made, incorporating a purpose build 10m x 5m room with infinity mirrors and 250 6ft fluorescent lamps currently at the National Media Museum, Bradford. The new […]
Artist Nicola Saunderson and I have been chatting about our different approaches to surveying a site. Hers is organised and disciplined – pseudo scientific – whereas mine is instinctive and based around visual moments that intrigue me. Inspired by her […]
Artist in residence at Lancaster West Estate working on a community film and mural
