3D3 Doctoral Researcher, Digital Cultures Research Centre UWE, Bristol, UK
1997 to date Partner of Sundog Media, creative media and animation production company.
2010 to 2020 Associate Lecturer Plymouth University
Strand leader for experimental film, digital cinematography and film-making for the second year BA Media Arts module Independent Practice.
2006 to 2013 Senior Lecturer University of St Mark & St John, Plymouth
Responsible for the delivery of media modules including Video Production: Documentary; Video Production: Drama; The Moving Image; Digital Audio for Media; third year BA video dissertation, studio photography, and video familiarization workshops run for First Year students; contributor to curriculum and programme development.
2006 to date Sea City
Ongoing collaborative Super 8mm film project with Kayla Parker – the city of Plymouth from the perspective of the shoreline, from Marsh Mills in the east to Stonehouse Creek in the west.
2011 Cinematic City, artists’ film about the post-World War II architecture and built environment of Plymouth city centre; commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre, with funding from South West Screen and Arts Council England. Presented during Lido open-air screenings, Plymouth (15 and 16 July 2011). Short before feature: The Way We Live, and Bladerunner.
2011 Flora
35mm animation film with Kayla Parker. Selected for One Minute volume 5 international touring programme of artists’ moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry. Screenings include: DL8 the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for contemporary media and film, Berlin (15 February 2012); Artist Cine Club, FACT, Liverpool (25 January 2012);
The Void Cinema, Sheffield Hallam University (8 December 2011);
Vertical Cinema, Cardiff (28 November 2011);
One Minute exhibition at Peloton Gallery, Sydney Australia. Presentation of the One Minute collections volumes 3, 4 and 5 (24 November – 17 December 2011);
GLIMMER International Short Film Festival, Hull (8 October 2011);
The London Underground Film Sessions, curated by Robert W. Monk and presented by David Sharkey; the Horse Hospital, London (17 August 2011);
Aid & Abet, Cambridge (premiere: 15 July 2011).
2010 to 2011 Freeing the Archive
Practice-as-research project, digitization of own personal Super 8mm archive, investigating new opportunities for dissemination and presentation, and the remediation of meaning; supported by a major research award from University College Plymouth, Marjon.
2010 to 2011 Plymouth Pictured: A City Through a Lens
Creative Producer for project with Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, the Plymouth and West Devon Record Office, and South West Film and Television Archive (SWFTA); mentor for four BA Media Arts students, creating short films with archival material, a teaching resource in Plymouth primary schools. Presented by BBC South West on the Big Screen, Plymouth city centre, during the London 2012 Olympics Open Weekend (23 July 2011). The four films available here: http://www.plymouth.gov.uk/ppprojects.html
2010 to 2011 Person Centred Planning
Production of DVD for Plymouth Disability Partnership
2010 Nectar
360 film, winner of an ICCI Award (Innovation for Creative and Cultural Industries, with Plymouth University); presented as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Programme in the South West (opening film, then screened daily 14 – 18 September 2010).
2009 Twenty Foot Square
Film selected for the One Minute volume 4 international touring programme of artists’ moving image curated by Kerry Baldry. Screenings include: the first of the London Underground Film Sessions, presented by Robert Monk and David Sharkey at The Horse Hospital London, UK (6 April 2011);
Flatpack and Fierce Festival, presented by VIVID Birmingham, UK (23 March 2011);
The Museum of Club Culture Hull, UK (5 February 2011); Kinofest, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Romania (3 – 7 November 2010);
Plymouth Arts Centre (19 October 2010);
Stew Gallery, Norwich (18 October 2010);
Future Proof, Marseille (18 September 2010);
Ukranian Art Festival, Koktebel, Ukraine (7 – 9 September 2010);
All UK Big Screens throughout August 2010;
presented by Directors Lounge Contemporary Media and Art at C.A.R. (Contemporary Art Ruhr) Essen (2 – 4 July 2010) and Meinblau Berlin, Germany (4 June 2010);
presented by PRISM at S1 Artspace Sheffield (14 May 2010);
Moors Bar Crouch End, London, UK (premiere: 6 May 2010, then screening all weekend as part of Crouch End Open Studios 8 and 9 May 2010).
2009 Sea Front
The poetry of Plymouth Sound and city seaside culture captured in glorious Kodachrome Super 8mm film and location sound recordings. Premiere: exhibition Peninsula Art Gallery, Plymouth University. Screenings include 2011: Cine-City, the Brighton Film Festival; 2010: East End Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Albuquerque New Mexico, and Media City, Windsor Ontario and Detroit USA. Winner of the Trick of the Light Award at the London Short Film Festival, and the Media Innovation Award: Independent Film.
2009 Teign Spirit
An animated ‘séance’, in which modern day Teignmouth is haunted by joyous summers past, conjured up though archive footage. Commissioned by Animate Project for CABE’s Sea Front. Screenings include 2009: Skegness International SEAS festival (premiere), Aurora Norwich, Tate Modern (Starr Auditorium); 2010: Spring Screen, Spacex Exeter; Haifa International Film Festival Start Making Sense programme presented by Animate Projects for The British Council, Haifa, Israel (23 – 30 September 2010); public//domain a festival of digital art, music, interaction and screenings, Lower Gardens, Bournemouth, UK (16 – 18 July 2010); Village Screen: Screen Two – Film at the Glastonbury Festival, UK (23 – 25 June 2010)
Available here:
http://www.animateprojects.org/films/by_date/2009/teign_spirit
2009 Verge: Nocturne
Super16mm film of the abstracted flora found growing along the South West Coastal Path. Selected for the One Minute volume 3 international touring programme of artists’ moving image curated by Kerry Baldry. Screenings include: PureScreen at The Castlefield Gallery Manchester, UK (25 March 2010);
The BAck doOR presented by cogcollective in conjunction with suek-artist, Melbourne, Australia (27 February 2010); Art in Unusual Places, presented by Lumen at the Merrion Centre, Leeds, UK (3 December 2009 – 14 January 2010); The Foyer Gallery, Hull School of Art and Design, UK (26th October – 12th November);
PRISM at Bank St Arts Sheffield, (23 October 2009);
Half an Hour from Paradise at the Marseille Project Gallery, France (19 – 26 September 2009);
All UK Big Screens (27 July – 2 August 2009);
Presented by Directors Lounge (Berlin) at Contemporary Art Ruhr c.a.r. 09, Essen, Germany (5 – 7 June 2009);
The Apollo Opening Night Herne Hill, London, UK (4 June 2009);
Hull Big Screen (1 June – 31 July 2009).
2007 Small World
Practice-as-research film investigating HD video aesthetics, commissioned for the National Review of Live Art (NRLA) Screening Programme at Tramway Arts Centre in Glasgow; a University of Dundee and University College for the Creative Arts project with New Moves International; included in the NRLA Archive at Bristol University.
Available here: www.sundog.co.uk/small_world.html
2007 Animation Art
Day of creative physical (16mm and 35mm film) and digital image-making for Foundation Studies students and staff, Bridgwater College, Somerset.
2007 Optical Organic
Animation art master class in physical and digital image-making and sound for artists and creative practitioners at the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, Haldon Forest, Exeter.
2006 Sunday Shorts international short film festival
Organiser of the day festival at the College of St Mark and St John to showcase the Plymouth Exchange short film programmes from Plymouth USA and Plymouth UK.
Available here:
www.sundog.co.uk/start/sunday_shorts.html
2005 Film-maker mentor and editor for First Light – Street Rat
Young people’s drama and animation, Coombeshead College, Newton Abbot, Devon. Nominated for the First Light Best Screenplay Award.
Available here: www.sundog.co.uk/streetrat/index.html
2005 Plymouth Exchange
Initiated first annual exchange of programmes with the Plymouth Independent Film Festival, Massachusetts USA as organiser of the START Moving Image Festival.
2005 Digital Quest
Outdoor digital photography and animation workshops for educators and artists at Green Space Blue Sky conference, Port Eliot Cornwall, for Creative Partnerships with the Eden Project.
2005 Learning Companion
Book design and production of Level 3 study guide, for Plymouth Learning and Work Partnership and Pathfinder Project (reprinted 2007)
2005 Verge
Dual-screen Super16 film installation for Salt Gallery, Hayle, Kernow
2004 to 2005 Creative Partnerships Cornwall and Plymouth
Partner on several media and sonic arts projects with primary and secondary schools in Plymouth, including C-Sound, Newsflash Osiris, and Transitions. Also ran Continuing Professional Development animation and media production workshops for teachers and educators.
2004 to 2005 Co-producer and editor – Wild Ideas, Plymouth strand
Music video with an ecological theme: young people’s film project commissioned by the Bristol Natural History Consortium. Nominated for a Wildscreen Panda Award 2006.
Available here: www.sundog.co.uk/perfectworld/index.html
2004 wort wall water
3 screen 16mm film installation for Salt Gallery, Hayle, Kernow
2004 What on Earth?
Animated title sequence for ITV family ecology series presented by Chris Hines of Surfers Against Sewage and Melinda Messenger.
2003 The Rocknose Project
Animateur: helped a Cornish community to develop their photographic and media skills and create an archive; ran training workshops to introduce people in Deviock parish to digital image editing and desktop video.
2003 Film-maker mentor and editor for First Light – Mix in the Sticks
Short film expressing young people’s view of rural life; music, video and animation; Wiveliscombe Somerset
1998 to 2002 Greenlink Environmental Arts Project
Documentary artist, photography and video animateur. Produced an extensive archive documenting the major public art/urban regeneration project in collaboration with the community, artists, and other stakeholders.
2001 Mutley Plain Regeneration Initiative
Website designer and producer, documentary photography and video, VR panoramas for the public art project. Available here: www.mutleyplain.org.uk
2001 Lives and Landscapes
Produced and edited a DVD collection of nine video art pieces celebrating contemporary Dartmoor for Aune Head Arts.
2000 You Are Here
Miniature Film project with Dalton School, about the Tarka Trail cycle path north Devon, for Poetry International, Royal Festival Hall, London.
2000 Shop Around the Clock
Documentary commission for Carlton Westcountry
1999 Plymouth Young People’s Documentary Project
Artist in Residence, Honicknowle; working with young people on the creation of a traveling photographic exhibition to recording their neighbourhood at the millennium. Exhibition opened at Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.
1991 to 2000 Visiting lecturer, Plymouth College of Art and Design
Teaching the use of 16mm film cameras, lighting, rostrum, stop-frame and time-lapse techniques.
1994 to 1996 Part-time lecturer, Plymouth College of Art and Design
Responsible for delivery of photography and video production modules, for Foundation Studies and Lens Based Media Foundation Studies, and National Diploma Photography.
1996 Film animateur, Cornwall Video Resource
Development of 16mm film-based courses for the centre in Redruth, which previously only offered video training.
1996 Part-time lecturer, Saltash College
Teaching the photographic element on the GNVQ course.
1990 TSWA Four Cities Project
Photography of available sites for the artists’ selection process. Overseeing technical work on the installations by international artists such as Magdalena Jetalova, Phong Phaophanit, Ron Haseldon and Darryl Viner.
1988 to 1996 Black and white photography – Plymouth Arts Centre
Managed the darkroom facilities. Tutored a variety of photographic and darkroom courses.
1996 Sunset Strip – sound design
For Kayla Parker’s 35mm Animate commission, Channel 4 and the Arts Council
1993 to 1996 Part-time lecturer Falmouth School of Arts
Teaching the photography strand of the Foundation Studies course.
1995 Queens – animated poem with poet John Agard
Production of a 16mm animated film with a London primary school, for National Poetry Day at the Royal Festival Hall.
1995 Deepend project – Arnolfini, Bristol
Created underwater video sequences for the Deepend project staged at Bristol’s Arnolfini. The event mixed film, video and live performance.
1994 Frame by Frame exhibition
Photography and video installation for Kayla Parker’s solo exhibition at Plymouth Arts Centre.
1994 Organiser: Plymouth Lens Group
The group was established to encourage the growth of photography and other lens based arts in the Plymouth area, and provide a forum for debate about contemporary practice.
1993 to 2006 START Moving Image Festival
Plymouth’s independent film festival set up to celebrate film culture in the region, screening work from south west Britain at a festival event in Plymouth and touring selected work regionally, nationally and internationally.
1992 Cage of Flame – lighting camerawork
For Kayla Parker’s 16mm Animate commission, Channel 4 and the Arts Council.
1990 to 1997 Freelance cameraperson, sound recordist for factual broadcast and corporate television – BBC, Channel 4, ITV, independents etc.
1989 ESMI Organiser
The Electrocoustic Sound and Moving Image residential workshop enabled participants to create a soundtrack using MIDI, samples and recordings. These were then edited with video footage to create a finished piece of video art, which was premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe Film and Video Festival. People attended ESMI from across the UK and Europe.
1986 to 1989 Plymouth Film and Video Workshop
Senior Technician for the Workshop, which was based at Plymouth Arts Centre. Responsible for sound, camera and editing production facilities. The Workshop’s remit was to foster cultural production of film and video through
training, public access and production projects.
1984 to 1986 Plymouth Video Project
The project was set up to work in the community, facilitating access to skills and equipment. Training took place at schools, youth groups and evening classes for adults. Information videos were produced for Plymouth City Council and other clients.
Publications:
‘Moving image production and the pedagogical development of media literacy’ [chapter] in Maher Bahloul and Carolyn Graham (eds.) Lights! Camera! Action and the brain: The use of film in education. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. pp. 111 – 140. ISBN13: 978-1-4438-3657-9, and ISBN: 1-4438-3657-5. pp. 111 – 140. Book reviews, more details and sample pdf available: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Lights—Camera—Action-and-the-Brain–The-Use-of-Film-in-Education1-4438-3657-5.htm
Research, consultancy and professional practice interests:
Selected:
2012 – 2011 One Minute volume 5 international touring programme of artists’ moving image, curated by Kerry Baldry. Screenings include: DL8 the 8th Berlin International Directors Lounge, the festival for contemporary media and film, Berlin (15 February 2012); Artist Cine Club at FACT, Liverpool (25 January 2012); Void Cinema, Sheffield Hallam University (8 December 2011); Vertical Cinema, Cardiff (28 November 2011); One Minute exhibition at Peloton Gallery, Sydney Australia. Presentation of the One Minute collections volumes 3, 4 and 5 (24 November – 17 December 2011); GLIMMER International Short Film Festival, Hull (8 October 2011); The London Underground Film Sessions curated by Robert W. Monk and presented by David Sharkey, the Horse Hospital, London (17 August 2011); Aid & Abet Cambridge (premiere: 15 July 2011).
2011 Postproduction: Lighthouse, a 16mm film poem inspired by Smeaton’s Tower on Plymouth Hoe, created by students from the After School Media Club at Sir John Hunt Community Sports College; made possible with generous support from Faculty of Arts Widening Participation, Media Arts, Contemporary Film Practice, and Peninsula Arts with Plymouth University; Sundog Media and Plymouth Arts Centre. Premiere screening in Jill Craigie Cinema during the Unravel animation workshop day on 5 November 2011, presented by Peninsula Arts. Selected for the Animated Exeter festival 2012.
2011 Spiritus Sancti and Ghost Radio programme at Rushes Soho Shorts Festival, BAFTA, London. Programme of 4 films screened to celebrate the “analogue and the supernatural”, presented by London Short Film Festival and Artherz (24 July 2011)
2011 Listen! Soundwaves Festival, Sallis Benney Theatre, Brighton. Shorts a la Carte programme of 8 films, screened ‘silently’ while each member of the audience curates their own soundtrack ‘live’. Presented by London Short Film Festival (17 July 2011)
2011 Teign Spirit 360 premiered in ICCI’s 21m dome, Weymouth, UK. Innovation for the Creative & Cultural Industries with Plymouth University. London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
2011 Cinematic City premiered at Plymouth Lido in two nights of outdoor screenings.
2011 Plymouth Arts Centre’s Mobile Cinema, at various locations around Plymouth; 7 films in the Sensing Place programme, with 2 films from the 1950s. Thanks to Anna Navas and Bryony Gillard (4 – 8 July 2011)
2011 Cinema City Award, to create an artists’ moving image artwork about the post-World War II architecture and built environment of Plymouth city centre; commissioned by Plymouth Arts Centre, with funding from South West Screen and Arts Council England
2010 to 2011 Research Award, for ‘Freeing the Archive’, a Practice-as-Research project
2010 The Trick of the Light Award, the London Short Film Festival, for ‘Sea Front’
2010 Media Innovation Award: Independent Film for ‘Sea Front’; a Sundog Media production
2009 Media Innovation Award: Collaboration between Business and Young People for ‘There 2 Care: The Voice of Young Carers’, animation about the experiences of children and young people who care for their siblings, parents and other family members, made with young carers and care workers, and introduced by Dr Roger Morgan OBE, Children’s Rights Director for England; a Sundog Media production for The Zone/Plymouth City Council.
2009 Winner of The Bill Bryson Prize for Science Communication, awarded by the Royal Society of Chemistry, for ‘The Other CO2 Problem’: a Sundog Media production with Ridgeway School and Plymouth Marine Laboratory; for EPOCA (European Project on Ocean Acidification), with support from University College Plymouth, Marjon and National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth.
2009 Hidden Harm, DVD (producer, designer, animator), a Sundog Media production made in collaboration with The Zone, Plymouth and young people affected by drug and alcohol misuse in their family; commissioned by Plymouth City Council: “a powerful training DVD for professionals” (Ofsted report on Plymouth City Council 2010).
2005 RIFE Lottery Award, South West Screen
2003 Awards for All Project Award, the Barefoot Project and National Lottery
2002 Living City Project Award, Plymouth Arts Centre, South West Arts, and National Lottery
2001 Dartmoor Lives and Landscapes, Aune Head Arts
2000 TX 2000 Film Production Award, South West Media Development Agency and Carlton TV