Ron Geesin is one of the UK’s leading avant-garde composers, best known for his work with Pink Floyd (Atom Heart Mother) and Music From The Body ith Roger Waters.
Geesin’s first solo album was released in 1967: A Raise Of Eyebrows and in the seventies he was often featured on the John Peel and Bob Harris shows on Radio 1.
He has created audio installations around the world including the ‘Tune Tube’ in Glasgow (1990) and in Japan for Expo 70. …
Peter Missotten (°Hasselt 1963) trained as a video artist (one of the students of Chris Dercon at St. Lukas Brussels). He worked all of his life in and around theatre spaces – starting as a light designer for ‘The Cement Garden’ in 1983. This started a long and passionate stage designer relationship with Guy Cassiers, which went on and off during some 25 years (‘Wasp Factory’, ‘Sunken Red’, ‘Rage d’Amour’,’ Der Fliegende Holländer’, …
Raul Rodriguez was born in Leon, Spain in 1959. He has been working with video since 1984 and has widely exhibited throughout Europe. Many of his works have been made for broadcast, and he is a winner of several video festival prizes.
Rodríguez, a virtuoso photographer with a history of more than 50 years in the Cuban film industry and having worked on over 100 films, is considered a master of light, framing and composition. …
Bruce McLean is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist, filmmaker and painter. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and from 1963 to 1966 at St. Martin’s School of Art, London, where he and others rebelled against what appeared to be the formalist academicism of his teachers, including Anthony Caro and Phillip King.
In 1965 he abandoned conventional studio production in favour of impermanent sculptures using materials such as water, …
Elaine Shemilt is an artist and researcher, especially known as a printmaking image maker. A pioneer of early feminist video and multi-media installation Shemilt continues to address the impact of war, conflict, censorship and constraint on psychologies and environments in her work.
“Shemilt’s powerful use of the body questions the perception, representation and objectification of female identity and the body. Her work challenges society at large and an art system that had relegated women artists to the margins. …
Alan Robertson worked together with Doug Aubrey to create Pictorial Heroes
“Pictorial Heroes are Doug Aubrey, Alan Robertson. Both studied at Maidstone College of Art and are now living in Dundee (1987). The work is concerned with the idea of barriers, and of physical, cultural, geographical and semantic divisions. For some, those featured are means of protection, yet for others they are the basis of an order that restricts, alienates and destroys.” …
Peter Boyd Maclean is a film maker and video artist.
While studying fine art film at St Martins School Of Art in London he formed The Duvet Brothers with fellow video artist Rik Lander.
Together they were at the forefront of a movement known as Scratch Video, a technique that manipulated archive footage in a rapid jump cut style to create new meanings.
Combined with hand held wobbly cameras, this style came to dominate television, …
Rik Lander started out as a video artist in the 1980’s as half of the Duvet Brothers. The style of this work, Scratch video, greatly resembles what is now known as mash-up. From experimenting in form by literally hacking up the material he moved into non-linear story telling through new media.
After making an experimental interactive documentary on the subject of dimensions (there are 27 of them apparently) with theoretical physicist David Peat, …
Catherine Elwes studied Fine Art at the Slade School of Art, and graduated with an MA in Environmental Media from the Royal College of Art, London in 1983. In the late 1970s she was a member of the Women Artists’ Collective and Women’s Art Alliance. She co-curated two landmark feminist exhibitions, ‘Women’s Images of Men’ and ‘About Time’, both held at the ICA in London in 1980. From the early 1980s onwards she began specialising in video and time-based media works, …
