biography
Artist film-maker who works with photography, drawing, writing, performance, found objects, and sound to create single and multiple screen moving image. A particular interest in the body in relation to space/time, still/moving, liminal places, and interior landscape/s. Lecturer in Media Arts and a doctoral candidate.
exhibitions (selected)
2009 'One Minute' touring programme of artists' moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry. Hull Big Screen (1 June - 31 July 2009); The Apollo Opening Night, Herne Hill, London, UK. (4 June 2009); presented by Directors Lounge (Berlin) at Contemporary Art Ruhr c.a.r. 09, Essen, Germany (5 - 7 June 2009)
2009 'Trace and Transience', photography, film and painting from Land/Water and the Visual Arts, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Art, London
2009 'PoetryFilm Party', presented by Malgorzata Kitowski, featuring a selection of PoetryFilms on the theme of dream. Curzon Soho Bar, London (22 April 2009)
2009 'Animate Projects Film Programme' Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (LCCA) Liepaja and Riga, Latvia (1 - 2 April 2009)
2009 'FilmCraft: Framework', curated and presented by Matt Hulse. Thinking through Craft event, IC: Innovative Craft, Edinburgh (31 January 2009)
2009 Animated Exeter, screening to celebrate the annual festival's 10th year, Exeter (14 January 2009)
2008 'Artist Cinema: Circle Line'. Screening in programme of experimental work by 'film artists who have explored fundamental geometric forms, moving away from conventional cinema into realms of abstraction, colour and music.' Sallis Benney Theatre, CineCity Brighton Film Festival (5 December 2008)
2008 'Immersion', Scott Building, University of Plymouth (Locate group exhibition 25 June - 2 July 2008)
2008 'Film Circus! Artists' Films', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (group exhibition 10 - 11 May 2008)
2008 'Night: A Time Between', artists' film programme, Royal West of England Academy exhibition, curated by Dr Janette Kerr RWA, Visiting Research Fellow, Bristol School of Art and Design, University of the West of England. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol (7 May 2008)
2008 'Moving Out', Roland Levinsky Building, University of Plymouth (Locate group exhibition 5 March 2008)
2008 'Artists' film programme', Quay Arts, Isle of Wight (14 Jan 2008)
2007 'Freedom Dream', presentation of 'rare avant-garde film' by Poetryfilm director Malgorzata Kitowski, Late at Tate, Tate Britain (5 October 2007)
2007 'Animate! Extending the Imagination: programme 2'. Film screening; retrospective of 'some of the most remarkable works of British animation' since 1990, The Platform International Animation Festival, Northwest Film Center: Whitsell Auditorium/Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, USA
2007 'Extending the Imagination: Dick Arnall and Artist's Animation', introduced by Gareth Evans. Cambridge Picture House, Cambridge (14 April 2007)
2007 'Definitive Stories' Screening Programme at the National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow. Group exhibition
2007 'Moving the Image'. Film screening; programme of 'short animated films by women from the 1950's to the present day', Hull Film and Hull Screen, the Women's Arts and Media Project, University of Lincoln (26 January 2007)
2006 'animate! Re-visions: Life Beyond Live Action', Aurora: Norwich International Animation Festival. Group exhibition
2006 'Numero: Arte E Cultura', Lisboa. Group exhibition
2006 'Green (Un)Pleasant Land', Centre for Contemporary Art in the Natural World, Exeter. Group exhibition
2006 'Programa Lux Films', curated by Ian Helliwell, with the support of the British Council, Festival Internacional de Curta-Metragem de So Paulo, Brasil (24 August - 2 September 2006)
2006 'Drawn to the Valley' Cube3, University of Plymouth. Group exhibition.
2006 'The New Flesh Incarnate', in 'Undercover Surrealism', Upstairs at the Hayward Gallery, South Bank, London (Friday 21 July 2006)
2006 'Extending the Image' Hull Screen University of Lincoln, and Electric Palace Hastings. Group exhibition
2006 'Route Masters: Portraits in Transition', with Iain Sinclair, 'Tracing the Contours: Portraiture Place in Contemporary Animation', National Portrait Gallery, London. Group exhibition
2006 'Extending the Image 2', Kultur Cine Club, Leeds. Group programme
2006 'Sounds of Images', Hamburg International Film Festival. Group programme
2006 'Born Free', PSP and cinema screening, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Group exhibition
2006 'Put Away These Childish Things', Viewpoint Gallery, Plymouth. Group exhibition
2006 'Death to Animation' initiative with Dick Arnall, Halloween Festival, ICA, London. Group exhibition
2005 'Lux Unlocked 2', curated by Ian Helliwell, Norwegian Short Film Festival, Grimstad, Norway (June 2005)
2005 'Verge' installation, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall. Solo exhibtion with Stuart Moore
2005 'The Naked Animator', Edinburgh Filmhouse, Scotland (Group exhibition Saturday 2 April 2005)
2005 'Focus Great Britain 2: British Animation Awards' curated by Jayne Pilling, and 'Festival Specials' curated by Doris Cleven, Tricky Women 05, Wien, Austria (culture2culture). (3 - 6 March 2005). Group touring programme: St Polten, Linz, Freistadt, Lenzing, Innsbruck and Feldkirch; and 'Tricky Women: Festivals im Dialog', augartenkino kiz, Diagonale05 festival of Austrian film, Graz, Austria (17 March 2005)
2004 'The Naked Animator', Holland Animation Film Festival, Utrecht. Hoogt II (5 November 2004), Camera (7 November 2004)
2004 'Blip@Newlyn', Newlyn Art Gallery. Blip, in association with Newlyn Art Gallery, Arts Council England, Falmouth College of Arts, Digital Peninsula Network, the University of Brighton and the University of Sussex (group exhibition 26 - 30 October 2004)
2004 'wort / wall / water' 16mm installation, and other works, Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall. Solo exhibtion with Stuart Moore
2004 'Experiments in Moving Image', Lumiere Cinema, University of Westminster, London. Group exhibition
2003 'Roadshow', Grizedale Arts, with Rl Institute. Touring programme, UK
2002 Gene. Film programme curated by Philip Ilson as the opening act before performances by the band. Halloween touring programme, UK
2002 'Przeglad animacji artystycznej z Wielkiej Brytantii', curated by Gary Thomas (Arts Council) and Urszula Sniegowska (KINO.LAB), with the British Council, Poland (25 - 27 October 2002)
2002 text2002 Festival, programmed by Simon Persighetti, Exeter Phoenix Auditorium, Exeter (group exhibition 9 May 2002)
2001 'Filmwaves', Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition
2001 'Animation: synaesthesia in the experimental animated film', curated by Suzie Hanna. The Norwich Gallery. Group exhibition with Oskar Fischinger, Jeff Keen, Len Lye, Norman McLaren, and Clive Walley (17 October - 10 November 2001)
2001 'Best of British', British Council programme, Annecy International Animation Festival, France (4 - 9 June 2001)
2001 'Music in May', National Arts Council of Singapore. British Council tour, Singapore (23 - 31 May 2001)
2001 'Film into Retina', curated by Ian Helliwell, Brighton Cinematheque (Thursday 24 May 2001)
2001 'Screenspace', Watershed Media Centre, Bristol (group exhibition 1 - 16 April 2001)
2001 'Celtic Connections' at Animated Exeter festival, Exeter
2001 'Animate', Animac Mostra Internacional de Cinema d'Animaci de Catalunya, Spain (2 February 2001)
2001 'Blood', Tag/Traum for ZDF/ARTE. Television broadcast, Germany
2000 'Animation: A Passionate Obsession', Art Space, Barbican Centre, London. Group exhibition
2000 'D-Net: New British Work 2', Lux Centre, London (group exhibition 19 October 2000)
1999 Berlin InterFilm Festival, Germany (8 - 13 December 1998)
1999 'Wanderlust', curated by Keely Macarow and Susi Allender, Experimenta Media Arts Melbourne, Australia (12 September 1999)
1999 'Art Animation', ICA, London. Group exhibition
1999 'Pandaemonium', London Electronic Arts and the Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition
1999 Oslo Animation Festival, Norway (28 April - 2 May 1999)
1999 'Abstract Art on Film', London Film Makers' Co-op and the Lux Centre, London. Group exhibition
1999 Stuttgart Filmwinter Festival, Germany (14 -17 January 1999)
1998 'TATE (Tough Against the Elements)', VJ event, Hamburg, Germany
1998 'Halloween@Liquid', Leeds. Group exhibition
1998 'Kentra', London. Group exhibition
1998 'Rencontres Internationales Art Cinema-Video-Ordinateur', Paris. Group exhibition
1997 'Painterly Animation', Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibition
1997 'Dope Sheet', Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK
1997 'Behind the Sofa', Prema Arts Centre, Uley. Group exhibition
1997 'Happy Families?', ICA, London. Group exhibition
1997 Impakt 97 festival, Utrecht; and touring programme, Netherlands
1996 'The World Within Us' at 'Beyond the Margins', Watershed, Bristol. Group exhibition
1996 'Interstice: Seen Unseen', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London. Group exhibition
1996 'Women Making Movies', British Film Institute touring programme, UK
1996 'Pandaemonium', ICA, London. Group exhibition
1995 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany. Touring programme 1995-1996, Germany and Hong Kong, including Munchner Filmzentrum (September 2006)
1995 'Free Radicals' ICA Projects touring programme, UK
1995 'Alive Kicking', What You See is What You Get, ICA Biennial touring programme, curated by John Wyver, worldwide
1994 'Frame By Frame', Plymouth Arts Centre. Solo exhibition
1994 VIPER International Film and Video Festival, Luzern, Switzerland
1994 'Art into Film', with Stan Brakhage, David Anderson and Mario Cavalli, National Film Theatre, London; for Tate's RB Kitaj Retorspective
1994 'Strandline', Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. Group exhibition
1994 'Peintures Mouvantes, Emulsions Sculptees', Videotheque de Paris, France. Group exhibition
1994 Women in the Director's Chair Film Festival, Chicago, USA
1994 English Films and Videos: Programme 7, SDR Stuttgart. Television broadcast, Germany
1994 'Hygiene and Hysteria', London Film Makers' Co-op touring programme, worldwide
1993 'Fourmations', Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK
1993 'Animation at the Cutting Edge', London Film Festival
1993 'Forces of Nature', Tate Gallery, St Ives. Group exhibition
1993 Animation programme, Edinburgh Film Festival
1993 'Innovations', Cornerhouse, Manchester. Group exhibition
1993 'Out of the West', Independent Film Video, South West Arts touring programme, UK
1993 Arrows of Desire, ICA Biennial touring programme, selected by Peter Wollen, worldwide
1992 'New British Film-Makers', Tate Gallery, London. Group exhibition.
1992 'Fourmations', Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK
1992 'The Dazzling Image', Channel 4. Television broadcast, UK
1991 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck; and touring programme 1991-1992, Germany
1990 'Fear, Phantasy and Myth', London Film Festival, London
1990 'Getting Animated' South West Arts touring programme curated by David Curtis, UK
1990 'Metaphors, Monologues Landscapes', Film Video Umbrella touring programme, worldwide
filmography (selected)
2009 'Twenty Foot Square' HD film [DVD]
2009 'Verge: Nocturne' Super 16mm [DVD]
2009 'White Body' digital film [DVD]
2008 'Heirloom' Super 16mm [DVD]
2008 'White Body' digital film installation as floor projection [DVD] (silent)
2008 'Hold' Super 16mm loop (silent) (b/w), Peninsula Arts, University of Plymouth
2008 'Resubjection' 16mm drawing and projection performance (b/w)
2007 'Small World' HD film, commissoned by Stephen Littman, University for the Creative Arts, and Peter Richardson, University of Dundee, for 'Definitive Stories', National Revue of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow
2006 'Poppies' Super 16mm (silent), with triptych of photographic prints
2005 'Verge' Super 16mm diptych, installation [DVD], commission Salt Gallery, Hayle, Cornwall
2004 'A Short Walk' 16mm, no.w.here launch, London
2004 'wort / wall / water' 16mm triptych, installation [DVD] (silent)
2002 'Life in the Bus Lane' digital film, commission Plymouth Arts Centre
2001 'Inner City' digital film, Year of the Artist residency, Arts Council/South West Media Development Agency
2001 'Physic' DV (digital embroidery loop), commission Aune Head Arts
2000 'Walking Out' 16mm, Arts Council/South West Arts
1997 Project Super 8mm and BetaSP video, National Lottery/London Filmmakers' Co-op
1996 'Sunset Strip' 35mm, Channel 4/Arts Council Animate Award
1994 'As Yet Unseen' video installation, with photographic prints
1994 'Elemental' Super 8mm, Plymouth City Museum Art Galley commission for 'Strandline' exhibition
1994 'As Yet Unseen' 16mm, BFI Production
1993 'Night Sounding' 16mm, One Minute Television, BBC2's The Late Show/Arts Council
1992 Cage of Flame 16mm, Channel 4/Arts Council Animate Award
1992 'Canntaireachd' 16mm, Scottish Television, for 'Canan nan Gaidhael' documentary
1992 'Puirt a beul' 16mm, Scottish Television, for 'Canan nan Gaidhael' documentary
1991 'Unknown Woman' 16mm, Arts Council/South West Arts
1990 'Fanny Johnny on Acid' U-Matic video
1990 'Nuclear Family' 16mm, Television South West/South West Arts Film Award
1989 'Lighter Hands' U-Matic video, Electro Acoustic Sound Moving Image residency, Plymouth Arts Centre
1989 'Looks Familiar' 16mm
1988 'Looks Familiar' 16mm loop projection (silent), Spacex Arts Centre, Exeter/Exeter Film Workshop
1988 'The Internal Voice' 16mm (silent)
1986 'Adult Day Return' 16mm, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff
Note: some works are in collaboration with Stuart Moore
relevant memberships
ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film d'Animation)
Producer/Director BECTU (Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph Theatre Union)
Affiliate member IAESDO (International Association of English Speaking Directors Organisations)
PM-P (Plymouth Media-Partnership)
Fellow of The Higher Education Academy
Member of The Drawing Research Network
other interests
Animation and gender; the material and the maternal; materiality and subjectivity; postmemory; collaborative practice
