Quiet Voices at The Big Chill

I can now confirm that The Big Chill has asked me to programme the Igloo Stage for Sunday's ambient night at this year's festival at Eastnor Castle!

Following the success of “Quiet Voices” at TATE Britain in January, I am proposing to bring that experience to The Big Chill.

Using 360 degree projection in the Igloo (the blue bit in the image above is the screen), the space will be submerged in down-tempo and ambient sounds, and bathed in lush, cinematic visuals shot around the world. Music from Enrico Coniglio, Alucidnation, Another Fine Day, Ben Mynott, Mr Tom & Input Junkie; Video installations from: Simon Wild, Muffled Visions, Francesca Coniglio, Phoebe Rixon and Tim Hetherington. I will be presenting audio-visual collaborations with Tom Green (Another Fine Day) and my visual piece set to “The 4th State” by Jon Hopkins.

The festival runs from 5th. - 8th. August 2010. More info here: www.bigchill.net

I am now officially excited!

Spring??

Really hope that this long, dark winter is behind us. I have the sun streaming in through my studio window, still struggling to warm the place but hey, at least it is trying! One good thing about it though, is the light - and I've been looking through my photographs from various dog walks and found these two.



Beginning to clear my memory cards out, ready for New York...!

Hanging in there...

I cannot explain why, at this time of great weariness (Sarah, my beloved, has a new job in London - this involves us setting the alarm for really silly hours in the morning) I am enjoying (!) a really prolific spell. I am SO TIRED. There, I've said it. Yet out of this daftness seems to come films, images and lots of folio watching....
College work is tough but wonderful, if that doesn't sound a contradiction. Students are buzzing away, getting places at universities and generally keeping me real and happy.
Jess brought me back the catalogue / book from the Van Doesbur exhibition at Tate Modern, this is giving me a lot of pleasure at the moment, and I am looking forward to seeing it for myself - perhaps once this term is out of the way.
And, to cap it all, as I type this, there is a blackbird singing in my garden - it is dark and 6.00pm - this is a sure sign that spring is on her way.....thank fuck for that.

Sjaumst i Virginiu

I have finally finished the film! Frustratingly, I can't post it up yet as the band and Gis have not seen it yet - as I type, they are performing at the by:Larm festival in Oslo - So I have posted 4 stills from it. The film was made with video and photographs taken in April last year in and around the area of Hali Farm and Jokulsarlon, Iceland.

An exciting new project!

One exciting outcome of my "Quiet Voices" event at the Tate in January, was meeting Gis "von Ice", manager of the emerging post-rock band "For a minor reflection" from Reykjavik. We talked loosely about collaboration, based upon the Iceland themed work I was showing that night.
The upshot of this is that I, along with my daughter Phoebe and former student Lucy Wilson are to make four films for their forthcoming UK tour. I shall be using material collected and shot on my last visit to Iceland with Simon Wild - who will also be contributing photography for the pieces.
I have already made a start to this project, some stills below:

Kit of parts

I am exploring the possibilities of using a set number of specific elements within a digital collage, altering only the scale, colour and position of these common elements. I'm finding it really helpful in focusing on purely the composition, and particularly, how colour is a crucial compositional element. This could go on and on, or I could find myself distracted with something else, as is often the case.

And a Triptych to finish the day off!

New work

Excited at the prospect of seeing Theo Van Doesburg's work in the flesh, after such a long time.

An a bit of fooling around with it in Illustrator.