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Anthony Shapland
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Night workers, still
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The works dwell on the banal and often unnoticed events around us. I look for significance in the everyday and seek to expand fleeting moments and interstices. Beginnings and full stops become part of a wider arena; they take centre stage and become the main event. It is in these moments we are held between expectation and the unknown.
Often I am involved in producing these works but not directing them. We have become used to film and video being a fast-changing window on the world but I have found that through the process of editing, of focussing on a period of time so intently these moments become more real, become more memorable.
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Amplified Thermohygrograph
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>> The one thing that unites the work I produce is this concept of the transitional, when one thing becomes another. I try to create an increased sense of being held in the unnamed part between the two, sometimes for a split second or sometimes indefinitely in spaces that are physically placed between the two. >>
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Nocturne i, still
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Finale still
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Still from Nocturne ii
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>> In cinemas or museums (or galleries) we inhabit twilight worlds that are neither real nor completely fictional; they are held between the reality outside of the room and the narrative unfolding inside.
It is this state of being that I have sought to find and define through a number of works. Perhaps it’s just that I prefer the uncertainty of these moments more than the certainty that they will pass.
Alongside my practice I am the co-founder of g39, an artist run organisation in Cardiff’s City centre. In this role at g39 I work closely with artists, curators, writers and arts organisations to build up a strong network of support and advocacy for contemporary visual art.
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Current Projects:
Twelve Encounters is a series of films commissioned as part of Another New Babylon; Urban Legacies conference.
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Passage Still
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