Screenings and presentations from the following artists and writers:
Beth Harland’s practice examines notions of time, how it is both represented and encapsulated materially in images; explored through the technologies of painting and digital imaging. The physicality of the surface, responsive to the viewer’s position, and the reference to filmic time (through appropriated imagery or actual video projection), seek to evoke an experience of temporality that is haptic and embodied. Published research includes a book, based on a practice-based PhD: A Fragment of Time in the Pure State, 2009 and an article in the Journal of Visual Art Practice: Painting in Search of Haptic Time, 2009. Residencies and awards include: British School at Rome, 2000 and Milchhof, Berlin 2007. She has exhibited widely including: Gasworks, London; Gallery 33, Berlin; Arnolfini, Bristol; John Moores, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool; Five Years, London; Dean Clough, Halifax; University of California, Turlok, USA; Kolo Gallery, Gdansk; Artsway, New Forest. She is a Reader in Fine Art and Director of the Graduate School, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.
Andy Harper is an artist based in London and St Just, Cornwall. He studied at Brighton Polytechnic, the Royal College of Art and Middlesex University. He teaches on the MFA programme at Goldsmiths College and co-founded Assembly, a live/work space in a converted Chapel in St. Just, Cornwall.
Recent solo exhibitions: An Orrery for Other Worlds, Aspex, Portsmouth, UK, 2010; Danese Gallery, New York, 2009; One in the Other, London, 2008; and The Ballad of Mistah Bones, Frost and Reed Contemporary, London, 2007. Selected Group Exhibitions: Twilight Zone, with Minjung Kim and Chrystel Lebas, Galerie Morgen, Berlin, 2010; Now you see it, Cafe Gallery Projects , Southwark Park, London; Wall Painting, FringMK, Milton Keynes; East End Academy, Whitechapel Gallery, London; Pattern Recognition, Leicester City Art Gallery; Wastelands, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; all 2009.
Dan Hays is a London based artist who has exhibited widely, both nationally and internationally, since graduating from Goldsmiths in 1990. He currently teaches part-time at Central Saint Martins college of Art and Design.
Recent solo exhibitions: Failing Light, Zürcher Studio, New York, 2009; Across the Water, The Nunnery, London, 2007; Deliverance, Void Gallery, Derry, 2007. Selected group shows: Parallel Lines, Galleri Tom Christoffersen, Copenhagen, 2009; Compendium, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2009; Close to the Surface: Digital Presence, ICA, London; Embedded, Gimpel Fils, London; Garden of the Sleep of Love, Five Years, London; all 2008.
Chris Horrocks is a senior lecturer in art history at Kingston University. Published writing includes Foucault: A Graphic Guide, Icon Books (2009), Marshall McLuhan & Virtuality, Icon Books (2000), Baudrillard and the Millennium, Icon Books (1999).
Lizzie Hughes was born and grew up in Anglesey, Wales. In 1993 she moved to London and in 2002 graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art with an MFA, having completed her BA at the same college in 1997. Since graduating she has exhibited widely in the United Kingdom and internationally. She has just completed a residency at the Acme Fire Station Building in East London which provides emerging artists with a live/work space for five years in order to concentrate on developing their careers. Aside from her studio practice, she has undertaken residencies and commissions which have taken her work into a broad public realm. Her work is not bound by any media and has included installation, video, sound works and performance.
Malcolm Le Grice has made film, video and computer works since the mid 1960's. He has shown at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Louvre Museum and Tate Modern and is represented in collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Royal Belgian Film Archive, and the National Film Library of Australia. Features, including 'Finnegans Chin', 'Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy' and 'Chronos Fragmented', have been shown on British TV. He has published widely including, 'Abstract Film and Beyond' (Studio Vista and MIT, 1977) and an anthology of essays, 'Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age' (British Film Institute 2001). He is Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London. His work is distributed by LUX in London, www.lux.org.uk, and Light Cone in Paris, www.lightcone.org.
Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the late1960s and taught film printing and processing at the London Film-Makers' Co-op (now LUX) during the mid-70s. His films often use serial forms and live elements; recent works include performances with multiple projectors, optical sound (sounds made from light) and film installations. His films have been included in 'Film as Film' Hayward Gallery 1979, 'Live in Your Head' Whitechapel Gallery 2000, 'Shoot Shoot Shoot' Tate Modern 2002 and 'A Century of Artists' Film & Video' Tate Britain 2003/4. He lives in London and teaches at Middlesex University and University of Wolverhampton.