Inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards �30,000 Prize Winners Announced
The Jerwood Charitable Foundation tonight announced the three winners of the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards. Sophie Clements, Johnny Kelly and the creative partnership of Rosie Pedlow and Joe King each received �10,000 in the first ever major award in the UK for artists working in digital moving image.
The Winners
Evensong � Sophie Clements
Sophie Clements is a visual artist working specifically in relation to sound and music. Graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, her work takes the form of film, installation and live performance, all unified by her aim to express the two languages of sound and visual as a singular voice. Her approach to making work is process-lead, often involving painstaking techniques that re-create by hand what might be possible at the touch of a button with digital techniques. This is not a
reaction against our digital capabilities, but rather a relishing in unforeseen results, happy accidents and the physical connection the process gives her to her work. She has taken part in a number of shows including 'Traced Overhead' with the London Symphony Orchestra in London (2007), 'Video London' in Spain (2006) and 'City on a Roof' in Holland (2006), and has performed live with various musicians including Scanner, J.Peter Schwalm and Brian Eno.
Evensong is a piece of visual music; it is a song, sung by layers of landscape and the geometric light forms that emerge from them. All filmed for real, or �in-camera�, it explores the notion of physical reality in relation to time and memory: The light objects are not fake, but they are still unreal � an altered memory of an event that happened � a movement in time seen in its entirety, like the beauty of hindsight. Titled �Evensong� not as a direct reference to its religious connotations, but rather a reflection of mood that the lights and landscape themselves suggest � the piece is somehow a melancholy celebration of dusk and stillness � an essence of something else � the �planned� unforeseen, seeping out of the systematic process of filming. These objects are at once sound and light, real and unreal, kinetic and frozen, and the beauty that comes with them lies on the edge between these opposites.
Procrastination � Johnny Kelly
Johnny Kelly trained at the Dublin Institute of Technology and received an MA in Animation from the Royal College of Art in 2007. At the Royal College, Procrastination was awarded one of six Conran Achievement Awards. Johnny was awarded a Shark Award for Best New Director in 2007 and in the same year was part of the London International Animation Festival at the Curzon, Soho. His work is about humour, fun and spontaneity. Most of his work is optimistic; reflecting the pleasure
Kelly finds in his work. His practice is energized by his love of the discipline, and is inspired by such animation practitioners as Shynola, Smith & Foulkes and Michel Gondry.
Procrastination is an investigative and exploratory hands-on, gloves-off study into the practice of putting things 'off'. Inspired by the struggles with creative block and distraction that surrounded the making of the film that became Procrastination, the animation offers an amusing and instantly recognisable representation of a universal experience. Rather than being fully storyboarded beforehand, as is usually the case with animated short films, Kelly opted to work more instinctively and spontaneously; thinking on his feet, ideas were often generated and realised within a day. Kelly says the process had a cathartic effect for him as a film-maker and it is hoped the viewer will feel similarly.
Bryan Quinn, who reads the narration, trained at the Jacques Lecoq theatre school in Paris and is an influential part of the theatrical scene in Ireland.
Sea Change � Rosie Pedlow & Joe King
Rosie Pedlow and Joe King are two artist/filmmakers living and working in Essex and London. They originally met whilst studying Film and Animation in Wales at the Newport International Film School, from where they both graduated in 1998. King went on to study at the Royal College of Art,
where he now teaches. The pair has worked independently on their own moving image practice, until coming together for
the first time to collaborate on their submitted work, Sea Change.
Filmed on a caravan park at the end of the season, Sea Change reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and time, and resonating with the transience of human presence. The frail, hand-painted caravans that fill the site are soon to be removed and crushed to make way for a new housing development, so the film also acts as a kind of document for an unusual place on the brink of disappearance. The entire film consists of the same tracking shot, 300 metres long, filmed repeatedly at different times over a period of five days. It is closely akin to documentary in its use of camera as pure recording medium. However any semblance of narrative is rejected in favour of a framework that is at once formal and conceptual. This serves to focus the spectator's eye on the essential elements: the flatness of the landscape punctuated by caravans; the continual and dramatic changes in light; and the unrelenting passage of time.
Opening at the Jerwood Space on 20th February, the inaugural Jerwood Moving Image Awards exhibition will present the work of the eight finalists in this new competition which is aimed at supporting and promoting artists working in digital moving image. From animation to video art, the Jerwood Moving Image Awards finalists� exhibition will feature work from a diverse array of disciplines, and appeal to anyone interested in the future of the moving image.
The finalists will be revealed on 8th February 2008, and these works will be installed in the Jerwood Space in the show which will run until 30th March. Three winners will be chosen from the final eight, and announced on 4th March, with each winner receiving �10,000.
As well as exhibiting in the finalists� group show, the final eight films will also be available to download from the Jerwood Moving Image Awards website. From the exhibition to the iPod, exploring the different media and platforms through which digital moving image can be experienced is as central to the Jerwood Moving Image Awards as nurturing promising artists working in this emerging field. Online and installation versions of the same works will be available to view side-by-side in the Jerwood Space, and an accompanying series of debates, as well as interactive online discussion boards, will offer important insights and interventions in the debates around digital moving image.
The Jerwood Moving Image Awards received submissions from more than 350 creatives. The judges have already selected a shortlist of 30 works which are available to view at the Awards� online gallery at www.jerwoodmovingimage.org.
The eight finalists are: David Blandy, Sophie Clements, Richard Forbes-Hamilton, Laurie Hill, Johnny Kelly, Rosie Pedlow & Joe King, Norman Wilcox Giessen, George Wu & Bonnie Carr
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