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The lovely Renate Kordon has curated a programme of animated shorts including ‘Herein’ at Kunstraum Niederösterreich. The screening will take place on Friday 16th March as part of a Comics exhibition. In fact it is the closing event – and the film will be the last on the programme no less!

Let me know if you can make it…

Last year I spent two days working with young people on the Uthink programme in Dorset. The group of eight wrote and produced this film which is now on Rethink’s young people site.

Scroll down to find ‘Two Different Shoes’.

I’m dead chuffed to have been invited to participate in the animadoc panel on Weds 19th Oct at animation & documentary film festival DOK Leipzig. The festival has been featuring animated documentary films for 15 years and is also celebrating the anniversary with a special programme of films.

As part of a programme of three short films, YNL is screening at Bargate Monument Gallery.

Details here:
Three Films
Times: Wednesday 12th – Sunday 16th Oct: 10am – 5pm
Venue: Bargate Monument Gallery
Tickets: Free
For more information: 02380 338 778

Featuring works by Alys Hawkins, Ian Mackinnon and Vera Neubauer.

The Bargate Monument Gallery and SFW team up once again to bring you films which celebrate artists’ work in the moving image. Following the success of Beginning, middle and end our collaborative show for SFW 2010, we bring together 3 wonderfully different films which demonstrate artistry in short filmmaking.

[Alongside 'You Never Listen'...]
Ian Mackinnon – Adjustment (2007 6m 30s)
A diarist searches for flickers of hope in a drama of technical and emotional obsession.

Vera Neubauer – The Last Circus (2004 23m)
Legends, religion and real life events, all dance and summersault through the arena in an absurd, choreographed splendour, competing for time and space.

Southampton Film Week is run by the brilliant community film company City Eye.

Sunday 19th was Wild West afternoon at Hepwright’s to launch my new work on sale. Cue high-kicking, gold boots and high jinks, with cowboy pseudonyms, live collage and Wagon Wheels all round!!

Check out Hepwright’s Facebook page for more pics of the day!

If you’re passing near Bedford Place, Southampton, please stop by Hepwright’s Vintage shop at no. 34 and check out my new work for sale. There are paper collages and original paintings, framed and ready to go at very reasonable prices!

Contact me if you want more details or you can’t get to the store…

Three Hats collage

Coffee & croissants collage

The Object as collected from Quay Arts on Saturday 19th March

Here are some pics of my Relay work-in-progress over the weekend, and now in situ in the Learning Curve Gallery at Quay Arts next to Tim Johnson’s beautiful skull made from the chess pieces. You can keep up with the latest incarnations of the artworks here

and, coming soon, read about my work over on Rules and Regs’ Relay blog

work-in-progress

first draft

work-in-progress

'A Long Drawn Out War' in the Learning Curve Gallery

This week I am taking part in Relay, an exhibition at Quay Arts in Newport, on the Isle of Wight.

It’s run by Rules & Regs and the deal is: an object is selected by the curator then six selected artists take it in turns to remove, alter and replace the object each week.

I’m the first in line and the object is a lovely wooden chess board. More info here: http://www.rulesandregs.org/relay11.html
Watch this space…

I have been selected to participate in Relay, a show curated by Rules and Regs with a space and Quay Arts

Very excited to be working alongside artists Steve Rosenthal, Ian Kirkpatrick, Kate Aughey, Alexandra Parry and Gordon McKenna.

Relay is a curatorial structure designed to challenge visual artists to experiment with new ways of working.

How it works:

* The twelve participating artists draw lots to determine a random order in which they will join the Relay.
* The Relay programme curator selects an initial Object to serve as the starting point for the Relay ‘chain reaction’.
* The Object is not revealed to the participating artists until the beginning of the programme, at which time it is given to the first artist to take away from the gallery.
* The artist then has a short time – about 48 hours – in which to alter the Object and return it to the gallery where it is documented and exhibited for the rest of the week.
* The next artist in the chain is then given the object to take away, alter and return for exhibition…
* The Relay continues with each artist altering the Object in turn.

My work will be on show from Tues 22nd-Sat 26th March.

Next Saturday afternoon, 5th March, I will be pimping up the piano in the SoCo Hub, Bargate Centre, Southampton: covering the old joanna in drawings of lovely ladies for International Women’s Day, which is 100 this year! Send me your suggestions for female performers to include in me big ol’ scribbly mash up. Or drop by and check out SoCo’s cool music workshops and performances. I can’t wait.

Tricky Women, the festival which invited me to Vienna for a two week residency in 2004, is going to celebrate its 10th anniversary next year and publish a book called Tricky Women_Animations Film Kunst von Frauen (Animated Films by Women).

Herein, the film I made during the residency, will feature in Jayne Pilling’s article for the book: Historical Milestones: Who gets to tell whose stories?

I just found out that both films were screened at the Animated Dreams film festival in Tallinn, in the Night Programme on 21st Nov, alongside classic films from Michaela Pavlátová, Andreas Hykade and the especially brilliant Igor Kovalyov.

Wish I could’ve been there…

Come on down to the Arches Studio open weekend on Sat 14th & Sun 15th Aug 12-5pm: a chance to nose around the studios, see artists at work and buy work for sale from the pop-up Arches boutique. All welcome!

Big day is Saturday when print studio Red Hot Press will be holding their annual Wayzgoose fete with music, stalls and the Southampton Butchers hog roast & barbecue.
Blog here:
http://thearchesstudios.blogspot.com
Event info at Southampton Online’s events page
http://here

On Monday I installed two new large-scale drawings made onto external awnings at brilliant arts centre The Point in Eastleigh, near Southampton, as part of their recent phase3 redevelopment.

One covers the new roof terrace, a memorial garden for dancer Charlotte Kirkpatrick…

And the other signifies when events are to take place on the garden stage.

Many thanks to Alistair Chaplin of Quantum Sails GBR who designed and made the awnings, and to all at The Point for their help with installation.

More pics to come from tomorrow’s official launch…

I’m thrilled to say that Crying & Wanking was screened as part of the Frauen Film Festival in Dortmund & Cologne earlier this month. It was shown in the Queer Animation programme curated by Dr Karin Wehn.

www.frauenfilmfestival.eu

I’m just about to start on a new pair of large scale drawings for The Point arts centre in Eastleigh, Hampshire. They are to be on awnings for the new roof terrace and outdoor stage, part of The Point’s recent phase3 developments. www.thepoint-online.co.uk

I had the fantastic opportunity to observe the BalletBoyz’ new show ‘The Talent’ in rehearsal and performance, for my research. It’s a brilliant show, and now on tour around the country. Catch it while you can:
www.balletboyz.com/store/danceschedule.asp

I’ve just learnt that Hysteria was awarded the prize for Best Film at the Compass of Desire Festival in Bristol on Sat 24th October. Great news!

http://compassfestival.blogspot.com

This is the animatic (the filmed storyboard with working soundtrack) for ‘Word of Mouth’, a one minute film for distribution via mobile phones, as well as for screening online and at events, made with Bunny Schendler, Magda Segal and Syd Anstee of Claptrap Productions.

Informed by the ideas of young people from the Thornhill area of Southampton, the film uses graphic images to communicate the potential health risks of only putting a condom on for the end of sex or taking a condom off halfway through.

Many thanks to Thornhill Plus You for helping with funding to get the project off the ground and also to all the young people in Thornhill who took part. This project is now looking for completion funding.

N.B. Please be aware that you may find some of the images in this film shocking. Not suitable for under 16s.

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This is the film I made as culmination of an artist-in-residence project at BDO in 2008.

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Here’s a glimpse of the show in its current location at the Hartley Library until Monday 28th September. See below for details.

Images courtesy of Jane Birkin & Laura Joy.