NEW WORKS:: resolution = time
Between 6th to 20th December 2010 the following works will be shown at the P3 Gallery opposite Madame Tussauds, plus some of these works will be exhibited at the Salisbury Arts Centre from 29th September to 30th October. Click the links to see images and video excerpts of the work.
I'm making a set of new works which develops still portraituree into the moving image form. My 1st 4 portrait works were:
Portraits of Glastonbury Tor of thPortraits of Cannaregioof thPortraits of the Somerset Carnivalsof thPortraits of Bristol Universities’ Centenary
I've also just created: Portraits of the Flat Iron, New York; Portraits of the Arrow Tower, Beijing and I shall be making shortly: Portraits of Shoreditch, London; Portraits of the Choir, Bristol
I am now working to develop further questions around portraiture in relation to the issue of photo-realistic representation and depiction by creating 3 new works:
A Moving Portrait of the Poet Elisabeth Beech, A Moving Portrait of the Artist, Charlotte Humpston, A Moving Portrait of the Window Cleaner, Alfred Glasspole (This is actually an excerpt from a high definition movie and not a photograph).
The intention in the first four works is to continue to explore the nuances of contemporary portraiture – these projects differ from the first series by having a wider subject matter. The latest three pieces reflect an enquiry into the still-yet-moving-image, by questioning the nature of the gaze of both the subject and the viewer through variations of scale of presentation as well as variations of resolution. (I.e. the steady 10 minute life-sized head-and-shoulder gaze from and towards the poet Elisabeth Beech, Window Cleaner Alfred Glasspole and Artist Charlotte Humpston), is to be displayed on a 42 inch plasma display. Also I will display a photograph taken from a single frame from the image sequence at the same size, side-by-side with the plasma. At the same the image will be displayed on a 20 x 10 foot screen (the cinematic display of a documentary subject), side-by-side with an 8 inch digital photo-display with video capacity. My intention is to promote deeper audience scrutiny and reflection on the form via the juxtaposition of variations of scale of display, resolution and movement.
I am also working on 8 other works which focus on the issue of landscape and the elemental and its representation:
James loves Sarahof thThe Elemental Waveof thThe Unfailing Landscapeof thCathedral Stepsof thGlastonbury Torof thSmoke Pieceof thIn Re Richard Longof thChrists Crucifixion over Bristol
These elemental landscape works relate to my concerns around place and the reality of place when depicted on screen. I am constructing works that invite the audience to reflect on the nature of the elemental via its mediation on a 20 x 10 foot screen (in its nature non-elemental), to question the act of the representation of the ‘real’ and its relationship to issues of how its resolution affects how it is received.
I am also completing a large scale single screen work which is complemented by also having a series of prints made from the images. This work was shot in Norway and is titled: Until I'm Gone. I hope to premier this in Bergen in 2011 then show it and display the related prints on aluminium at a show in the Salisbury Arts Centre in September. Prints from Bergen
LINKS
High Definition (blog)00AHRC Creative Fellowship in High Definition Imaging00In Other People's Skins
The Verbatim History of High Definition Aesthetics and Technologies 0 AHRC Creative Fellowship in High Definition Imaging
Forthcoming Projects 00The Making of In Other People's Skins 0 Audience Comments on the installation
The Making of In Other People's Skins 0Visitor Comments0Last Show: New work at the Phoenix arts project0Bristol University Fellowship webpage
Latest Tour: Winchester, Worcester, Gloucester, Bristol, Wells, Southwark Cathedrals & Bath Abbey
Latest Retrospective: Strasbourg, Spring 2010,
Latest showing of the Dinner Party, Glastonbury Festival 2009
My work has been purchased by the Arnolfini Bristol and the Museum of Modern Art Berlin.
Complete collections of my artwork are available at 0The British Artists Film and Video Study Collection (London)
The Lux Centre, London00AICE InVideo (Milan) 00The Rewind Study Collection (Dundee)
The Film and Video Artists' Study Collection, (UCLAN) 00Video Les Beaux Jours (Strasbourg)