Continuum wins 'Best of IFF'11' at Immersive Film Festival 2011

Really excited that Continuum won 'Best of IFF'11' in the short film category at this years Immersive Film Festival in Portugal. For more information see here.

Found out earlier this week that the work has been also been programmed at the 'Fulldome Festival 2011', taking place in April at the Zeiss Planetarium, Jena, Germany from 12th - 14th May.

Continuum - screening at Immersive Film Festival 2011, Portugal

Busy time

The last few weeks have been really busy...

Last Friday I took part in '3 degrees of Separation', an artists discussion event organised by North East artists Jo Coupe and Catherine Bertola and supported by Turning Point. The event gave the opportunity for 8 artists to discuss their practices in relation the the theme of 'time'. The selection for the event was really interesting, with each artist choosing another in a chain. The choices were made based on similarities in practice or relationship of work to the theme.  There will be two further events based on themes of 'site and context' and 'materiality'. A further artist was invited to respond to the discussion and create a written text. The outcome will be a limited edition set of 3 books.

The website for 3 degrees of Separation can be found here. It will continue to grow as further events take place and the written texts are added.

On Monday I attended the Journal Culture Awards, where I had been shortlisted for the 'Visual Artist of the Year 2010'. The shortlisting was for the screening of 'Continuum' at Centre for Life's planetarium last June and was based on public vote and recommendation. Congratulations to Laura Lancaster who won the award!

I have also been working on several proposals to start researching a new project. I met with Emma Kirkpatrick from the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University to discuss a possible collaboration as part of this research. More on this soon...

'Looking from a distance' - solo show at Berwick Gymnasium Gallery

Looking from a distance, a solo exhibition of works will show at Berwick Gymnasium Gallery from September 10th - October 15th, with an opening on the 10th. The exhibition will coincide with the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival 2011 and there will be an additional opening event during the festival.

The Gallery's 2011 programme has been announced.

More details to follow...

Chimera - showing as part of Land[e]scape at Hatton Gallery, Newcastle

More information about the event here

The Red Carpet - documentation from performance at 'Response', October 2010

Just edited a short clip from the documentation of 'The Red Carpet', which was performed during 'Response' at Landgaurd Fort last October. The work was made specifically for the gun corridor in the fort and lasted for approximately 2 hours.

The red cape/carpet was made by Jo Brossman.

3 degrees of Separation

I have been invited to take part in an exciting new project organised by North East based artists Catherine Bertola and Jo Coupe. I will be taking part in the first discussion day on the 25th March with a focus on time. Here is some information about the project -

"3 degrees of Separation is a series of three one-day discussion events, taking place in Spring 2011 and organised by Jo Coupe and Catherine Bertola, both artists based in Gateshead.

Each event will have a different emphasis, based on commonalities within our work. The ‘focus’ for each of the three events is: 

Time exploring the relationship that works have with time, in relation to how the work is experienced, how work changes and evolves over time and the association with history and a sense of mortality 

Materiality looking at the importance of materials and process in the making and in the meaning of the work, potentially touching on ideas of beauty, craft and the importance of authorship in the work  

Site and Context examining how works are developed in response to ‘sites’, from specific places to the use of more personal and found objects in the work, and how works is transformed by the context in which it is experienced

The selection of artists is based on the principle of degrees of separation – there being apparently only 7 degrees of separations between any two people on Earth. For each event, we will start by inviting one artist each from the region, someone with whom we feel some affinity or resonance with our own practice in relation to the focus of the event. These two artists will then be asked to invite an artist on the same premise, and finally that artist will be asked to do the same. This chain connection will create three diverse groupings of eight artists, brought together purely on the basis of their work. By adding an element of chance, we hope to cut through different generations, geographical boundaries and existing networks of artists in the North East."

Continuum - March 13th, screening at Fulldome UK 2011

 Click here for further information

Continuum - March 14th, Newcastle Science Festival 2011

Culture Awards Article

Shortlisted for 'Journal Culture Awards'

Found out last week I have been shortlisted for the Journal Culture Awards 2010 in the 'Visual Artist of the Year' category. Very exciting news! The nomination is for the screening of Continuum at Centre for Life last June. The award ceremony is taking place in March at Durham Gala Theatre.

Durham University installation

images, Daniel Barella, Paul Grimmer

The work is open to the public and is situated in the reception area of Van Mildert College, off South Road, Durham. It can be viewed everyday from 10am until 6pm. No appointment necessary, for further information contract Van Mildert College on (0191) 334 7100.

Transhumation - installation at Van Mildert College, Durham University

After several months of negotiation, Transhumation was successfully installed at Van Mildert College, Durham University yesterday along with the digital image work, Viral Portraits.

Transhumation was produced as part of the Triparks residency in 2008 and has been touring the UK as part of a group show of the same name since. The work includes images from the research of Charlotte Roberts, Professor of Archaeology at Durham.

Thanks to Charlotte Roberts for approaching the Durham on my behalf and to Henry Dyson for recommending the work for installation. Also Professor Patrick O'Meara the Master of Van Mildert College and the team who installed the work yesterday.

images: Daniel Barella