“One of the earliest but still the longest and most complicated work I have made in video, I was very preoccupied with the paintings of Cezanne. I think there was an important exhibition of his works at the time, but I had not seen and indeed was not aware that Malcolm LeGrice had addressed a similar preoccupation with Cezanne in film and in a very different way. I was also concerned with the fate of Steve Beko a prominent ANC activist who was eventually murdered by the South African Police while in custody. …
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Flier for ‘Video Art’ 1983-87 (Including An American Romance) by Marty St. James and Anne Wilson, 1988.pdf here …
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Invitation card for ‘Hotel’, Hotel at Air, 18th January 1989.pdf here
‘Straight Art and Slipping Standards’, The Marty St James and Anne Wilson interview, Nik Houghton, Independent Media No.87, June 1989.pdf here
Publicity card for ‘Hotel’, 1989.pdf here …
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“A year on from Implied Statement and I was asked to give a talk on video at the Tate Gallery, I decided to make a new piece to accompany this talk but found myself bereft of ideas. Nevertheless I had time booked in a colour studio and somewhat in desperation I decided to remake Implied Statement trying to eliminate what I saw were flaws in the original. while Implied Statement II does not constitute a significant advance from the first version it went a bit more smoothly and provides, …
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“This is one of the ‘maritime’ pieces I made in the early 1980s. I was always influenced by an image from film by the Canadian Artist Joyce Weiland entitled ‘Sailboat’, in which that word appears bluntly against the edge of a boat moving across the screen. This being a triptych, it involved more elements that that deceptively simple film but nevertheless I wanted the 3 screens to appear as an impassive hole like a machine which merely displays nuances and inflections. …
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Invitation card for viewing of ‘The Body on Three Floors’, 14 March, TSW, 1985. pdf here
Photocopies of Production stills for ‘The Body on Three Floors’, 1985. pdf here
Application for TSW/SWA Award, ‘Television and Specialisms’ which became ‘The Body on Three Floors’, 1982. pdf here
‘The Body on three Floors – some background’ typed note, 28th November 1984. pdf here
Chart: ‘Sequence for The Body on Three Floors’ …
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Exhibition brochure for Television Interventions, ‘A Touring programme of Artists’, Fields and Frames, 1993, includes information on the work ‘Bhangra Jig’.pdf here …
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Exhibition brochure for Television Interventions, ‘A Touring programme of Artists’, Fields and Frames, 1993, includes information on the work ‘Big Time – The House’.pdf here
Drawings for ‘Big Time – The House’, Part 1, 1990, 4 mins.pdf here
Drawings for ‘Big Time – The House’ part 2, 1990, 4 mins.pdf here
Stills from Big Time – The House, 1990, 4 mins. …
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Exhibition brochure for Television Interventions, ‘A Touring programme of Artists’, Fields and Frames, 1993, includes information on the work ‘Celtic In Mind’.pdf here …
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