October 10 2012//

A journey with my camera through the soon to be demolished Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, London. 

I visited 6th October and the Heygate Estate was also hosting a number of site-specific artworks as part of the Elephest festival, including Nadia Berri’s eerie and evocative performance piece, the Last Waltz. The estate is a well known site of Brutalist concrete 1970’s architecture that was home to around 3000 people, although the structure is reportedly still sound it is now marked for demolition as part of the regeneration of the Elephant and Castle area.

I was prepared to find a claustrophobic and austere place but was suprised by the number of trees, public space and also a sense of quiet seclusion away from the busy Walworth road outside. Graffiti & wall drawings, Parkour, (now) barricaded walkways, a community gardening project, inside-out furniture and long since discarded possessions all made for a visit steeped with human, and urban history.

Links

• BBC website: MP calls for more affordable flats on estate
• Heygate Estate residents fight compulsory purchase order
• A blog about Regeneration and Gentrification in Southwark, South London:  Southwark Notes – whose regeneration?
• Wikipedia: History of the Heygate estate

September 23 2012//

Great fun during a collaborative filming event with artists Constantine Gras, Dee Harding and Nadia Berri in Latimer Road, West London.
Shot nearby to the dramatic railway arches and under the famous Westway flyover, and in the soon to be demolished Latymer Projects HQ- A former nursery seeped with local history stretching back to the Notting Hill Race Riots in 1958.

Constantine’s short film Day Care will pay homage to the site and its intricate social and historical connections. I can’t wait to see the final cut!

Also see: Latymer Projects Mapping Project Screening|Soundcards

September 14 2012//

Very pleased to be invited to screen my film Oceanics on October 5th at: The Space, Kings Road, St Leonards on Sea (Nr Hastings UK)
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The outdoor  screening will be a continuation of End of the World* installations curated and created by Sharon Haward and Sarah Locke for Coastal Curents Festival in Hastings 2012

Shanty towns, nomadic populations, scrapheaps awash with redundant products and technologies, ever-expanding, competing populations and the famous late-2012 assertions of the Mayan calendar have all been starting points for the show.

All Welcome!

Coastal Currents Visual Arts Festival

March 29 2012//

Here are two mini-print versions 21 cm x 20cm of large digital drawings for Lessedra Mini Print Annual, Sophia Bulgaria 2012 (Invited artist), printed on Somerset enhanced Satin inkjet paper.

They will be posted to Bulgaria for the exhibition very soon….

March 29 2012//

An edited version my film Oceanics was exhibited as an exciting holographic projection work this year at Kinetica Art Fair, AmbikaP3, London.
9th – 12th February 2012

Holographic performances will be on the Musion stage at the following times

• Thursday 9th at 5pm
• Sunday 12th 1-2pm
• Each day 10-11am

The projection system is run by Musion Systems Ltd and is based on a Victorian illusionist technique known as Pepper’s Ghost. High definition digital images in motion appear 3D on a specially constructed stage. To give an idea of scale, the image projection area on stage is approximately 4 metres wide and 2.5 metres high.

Click here to view Oceanics

February 03 2012//

One of my large format digital prints ‘The Bigger Picture’ has been selected for a really interesting future group exhibition entitled ‘This ‘Me’ of Mine’ curated by artist and writer Jane Boyer.

‘Myself’ is a loaded pronoun, it is a pronoun which is grammatically suggestive of a self reflected back on itself through actions or thoughts.  It represents my person as I sit here writing this, my past which has brought me here where I sit and write, and the potential of what may happen next.  It is a multiplicity of selves, changed and influenced by time, experience and encounters all woven together in the weave of a fabric called ‘me’.  Yet there are two sides to a piece of fabric, just as there are two sides to me: my interior self and my exterior self.

Jane Boyer

Click here to view This ‘Me’ of Mine exhibition blog

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Participating artists include: Aly Helyer, David Riley, David Minton, Annabel Dover, Sarah Hervey, Anthony Boswell, Kate Murdoch, Cathy Lomax,   Melanie Titmuss, Edd Pearman,  Sandra Crisp, Julie Cockburn, Shireen Quershi, Jane Boyer.

November 22 2011//

My film Mapping London’s Subterranean Rivers will be installed on loop in the Lexi Cinema foyer as part of In Short film festival – A digital festival showcasing local short films and soundscapes November 20th: From 2pm to 5pm. I went along to view the selected entries for this local festival open to both amateur and professional filmmakers…..

Large comfortable armchairs  await visitors to the  Lexi Cinema in Kensal Rise North London. Personal touches such as the retro standard lamp to illuminate speakers introducing the festival line-up make this boutique cinema unique in character, the tiny bar served a tea and home made cakes in the interval.

A great line up of 15 films from diverse genres created by both amateur and professional filmmakers made for a really entertaining couple of hours viewing including abstract animation, social documentary and comedy to name a few.  The jury voted 2 films into joint first place; ‘Forgotten Carers’ by Matthew Wolpert –  An hilarious take on the single life of a man left by his girlfriend for being too high maintenance.

‘The Dog Smells You’  (James Wright) a contemporary, haunting & ambiguous journey using continually shifting colour,  filters and textures –  filmed in one day using an i-phone. The audience prize went to (Island) ‘Murmuration’ by Sophie Windsor Clive.  My personal favorites for InShort festival include; Constantine Gras’  Bound for Glory ‘A poignant docudrama about a woman who stitches together memories of her West Indian mother.

The Money Shot – a film by Graham Rathlin:  ‘An ebayer discovers his new camera has magical qualities that could make hime extremely rich’ …with a twist at the end! And finally, 2 young filmakers Marco Pini & Daniel Lubin presented Day 56 a film shot in Wales imaging a world where there are suddenly no people. The judges were; Jack Arbuthnot, Joanna Hogg, Martina Amati and Tora Young, the winning films will be screened before the main program each day at the Lexi during the forthcoming week.

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