Six Metamorphoses Webstream - 16th Nov 2013 7.30pm

They’ll be a restreaming of the premiere performance of Transformations – the music and film programme that includes Piper’s With Stolen Fire and Britten’s Six Metamorphoses after Ovid with Goodwin's film which is on tour this year. The restream is followed by a response piece created by children in a Sheffield school.
 
The restream will take place on www.musicintheround.co.uk and www.showroomworkstation.org.uk. Please tune in on 16th Nov 19.30 UK time and tweet to @musicintheround using the hashtag #musicandfilm.

Multiplied Art Fair, Christies, 18th-21st Oct 2013

The geeky James from gallery, Grey Area based in Paris will present my new 3D Amoebae Cinema and Dawn of the Rainbow prints alongside work by Guy Allot, Matt Calderwood and Alfred T. Palmer.

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Bang Bang wins Grand Prix Abstracta Festival 2013

Abstracta the Italian International Abstract Cinema and Videoart Exhibition taking place in Rome over 10th-11th October 2013 featured the enigmatic animation Bang Bang which won the Grand Prix and another Brit Stuart Pound got a Special Mention for his moving image piece Black & White.

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New 3D Print for Small Wonders exhibition

I have produced a rather fun new print to go with my new Amoeba themed film Small Wonders. It will be presented at its premiere at ArtLacuna this week. Here's the burly guys at Jealous who printed it superfast for me checking out my 3D moves!  

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Small Wonders Solo exhibition, ArtLacuna 17th-21st Sept 2013

My usually cinematically sourced artistic practice took a diversion into the microscopic aquatic world this summer with my new film project Small Wonders funded by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. It's a collaborative project with microbiologist Terry Preston centred around a 16mm black & white film of an experiment he did through a microscope in 1972. So this summer I have delved into Terry's more than half a century of tales and obsession into the behaviour of these single celled organisms and in particular how they move at the air-water interface. The resulting surprisingly funny 14 minute film follows Terry’s journey into discovering how amoebae move. The film is in stereo 3D and uses surround sound - both a first for me. It uses retro 8mm found footage of people interacting with water combined with the 1972 16mm footage and stop frame footage taken in Terry’s lab to make a meditative piece on time and scientific exploration.

ArtLacuna 

My usually cinematically sourced artistic practice took a diversion into the microscopic aquatic world this summer with my new film project Small Wonders. Microbiologist Terry Preston gave me a 16mm black & white film of an experiment he did through a microscope in 1972. When I finally saw it, I was spellbound. It was reminiscent of a moving abstract painting. These were life in its simplest form. I could imagine them as a giant projected 3D animation piece. And I wanted to know more. So with a little help from the lovely people at the Wellcome Trust and a lot of patience and recorded conversations with Terry I delved into his more than half a century of tales and obsession into the behaviour of single celled organisms and in particular how they move at the air-water interface. The resulting surprisingly funny 14 minute film follows Terry’s journey into discovering how amoebae move. The film is in stereo 3D and uses surround sound - both a first for me. It uses retro 8mm found footage of people interacting with water combined with the 1972 16mm footage and stop frame footage taken in Terry’s lab to make a meditative piece on time and scientific exploration. Surround sound design by Wayne Urquhart. This project has been supported by a Wellcome Trust Arts Award. Film Production Blog : smallwondersfilm.tumblr.com