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Blindfield
Blindfield from Christine Webster on Vimeo.
A short film based on the gruelling experience of Webster’s own Grandmother who was the recipient of ECT treatment in an asylum in the 1950s in New Zealand.
Director, Christine Webster
Cinematographer, Tim Sidell
Editor, Kath Lee
Composer, Rael Jones
Blindfield which began as an installation work in 2007 and was edited as an 11 minute short film in 2009. Selected for Athens Video Art Festival and Split 14th International Film Festival in 2009 with special mention for creativity.
A Rube Goldberg machine made at the Venice Biennale, 2011.
Constructed in 5 days with the help of 40 local kids, at the Greenhouse of the Venice Giardini.
Designed by Joseph Herscher, with construction assistance from Mauro Delley, Michaela Intra and Elisa Paulin.
Exhibition presented by The Maud McCann Gallery
at the
Master Shipwrights House, Deptford
What We Am
Work: Leila Galloway
Music: Mute Swimmer
An exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculpture opened on May 19th. Curated by Leila Galloway and Andy Price the exhibition The Thought of Stuff opened with a range of works photographed below.
“The Thought of Stuff is an exhibition at the Royal British Society of Sculptors that combines work by Alison Wilding, Esmeralda Valencia, Jack Strange, Wayne Lucas, Adam Gillam and Jonthan Callan, with a performed talk by Elizabeth Rosser at the Shipwright’s Palace in Deptford. These seven diverse practices share a commitment to something that might be identified with sculpture – an initmate confrontation with materiality in generating new becomings.”
See also their new site: http://mittencrab.org – bookmark it for more about British Sculpture – emerging soon
Originality ****
Rating ****
Took some photographs of an extraordinary exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery. These works of art are mostly from India and reveal paths of thought that may not occur to the minds that make art in London. Who knows, really?
Several of the sculptures had a very profound effect on me. The most original ones were the tar covered man and breathing matresses, the pile of old decrepid chairs (The Dance of Democracy) and a room half filled with robot people, steam punk style. A suitcase contained a folded up camel, and a giant boy who ruled the back room – both disturbing.
***** Originality
***** Artistic values
