Application for ‘Major Video Bursary’ Arts Council AFV, 12th September 1984. (pdf currently unavailable)<!–pdf here–>
‘Sleep’ statement, Catherine Elwes, 1985. pdf here …
Sleep
The Critic’s Informed Viewing
26m 20s
3/4″ Umatic
In the piece, Elwes is seen on an ordinary night in watching the TV. She then begins to give a critique on what she sees on the screen, although more of a train of thought, highlighting the shallowness and banality of popular television. She particularly singles out the pop music programme ‘Top of the Pops’. A more serious and intellectual precursor to Channel 4’s ‘Goggle Box’.
‘…she is doing what the TV producers so often fail to do… …
First House (installation)
‘First House’ Canterbury Fringe Festival, description by Catherine Elwes, October 1986. pdf here …
There Was a Stone That Held a Bright Sword and No-one Could Pull the Sword Because Their Minds were Fixed on the Stone.
Light/Water (with Mineo Aayamaguchi)
Drawing for the installation Light/Water 1986, a collaborative work by Jeremy Welsh and Mineo Aayamaguchi.pdf here …
Arrival/Departure
Made In Scotland 2 – Compilation of images and written work of artists in Scotland producing video and television based work. All work featured was produced at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee. Includes information on the work ‘Arrival/Departure’.pdf here
Poster for ÎActs of Remembrance Ò Performance and Video Art Fortnight on the theme of memoryÌ, Harris Art Gallery, Preston 1989. Includes information on ‘Arrival / Departure’.pdf here …
Hannah’s Song
“Katherine Meynell (1954-, UK) examined notions of female subjectivity through the complexities of the mother-daughter relationship in two videotapes produced in the late 1980s – Hannah’s Song (1987) and Medusa (1988). Meynell, explores her subjective perspectives on multiple levels in these tapes, simultaneously reflecting on the mythological, the symbolic and the socio-political. In discussing the themes and impetus of the work, she has claimed that it was ‘the direct result of the confusion and paradoxes of my beliefs as a feminist’. …
There is a myth
Programme and explanatory information on video and performance works exhibited as part of the British/Canadian Video Exchange ’84: Installations, performances and videotapes, Toronto, May – June 1984. Includes information on the work ‘There is a myth’.pdf here
Video Screenings, Summary Video UK – Programme of video works from Recent British Video Exhibition, Toronto March ’84. Presented for the first time at the ICA Cinematheque, The Mall, London, 1984. Includes the work ‘There is a Myth’. …
Yes Frank, No Smoke
‘Scratching Deeper’, article on scratch video by Michael O’Pray, includes information on ‘Yes Frank, No Smoke’. …
Light/Water
