Katharine Meynell studied at Byman Shaw School of Art and the Royal College of Art where, on 2000, she also completed a doctoral thesis on Time Based Work in Britain since 1980.
Meynell’s practice ranges from moving image works, to drawings, bookworks and performances. She was Abbey Fellow at the British School in Rome 2003-04. Video installations include ‘Moonrise’ (Tate Liverpool), ‘Her Gaze’ (ICP New York), ‘Vampires Eat’ (Kettles Yard), ‘Light, Water, Power’ …
Stephen Littman is an artist, visual theatre documentalist and academic based at University College for the Creative Arts at Farnham; he has been involved in the organisatiion of festivals such as Video Positive, National Review of Live Art (Video) and was a member of the LVA management committee from 1980 to 1987 running the screening programmes and technical workshops.
His work has ranged from lyrical narrative to strict structural investigations of the language and form of video – …
“As Senior Film and Video Officer at the Arts Council of England, David Curtis was in a unique position to overview the practical throughput of a film and video community in the UK. He has initiated various important exhibitions of artists’ works, and encouraged the support of artists moving-image in various contexts and communities.” – J.Hatfield
David Curtis was Senior Research Fellow at the AHRB British Artists’ Film & Video Study Collection, Central Saint Martins, …
John Aubrey Clarendon Latham, artist, born February 23 1921; died January 1 2006
“He proves it is possible to be an enfant terrible forever.”
– Damien Hirst
“John Latham was a international pioneer of systems/process art work and advocate of the artist acting as agent of change (‘incidental person’). He worked with many different mediums, which included the moving image (film and video), introducing the term ‘time based art’. With Barbara Stevini, …
Mike Leggett has been working across the institutions of art, education, cinema and television with media since the mid-60s. In 1969 he was a founding member of the London Film-makers Co-operative workshop and in 1975 the Independent Film-makers Association (UK) and was an active member of the British film and television union (ACTT), and until recently was on the Board of dLux Media Arts (Sydney). He has film and video work in archives and collections in Europe, …
Malcolm Dickson is a curator, writer, organiser and Director of Street Level Photoworks in Glasgow, whose programme includes a diverse range of local, national and international lens-based artists (www.streetlevelphotoworks.org). He has curated numerous projects including ‘Lost and Found: video installations from the 70s and 80s’ as part of Glasgow International 2010; a retrospective of the photography work of John Hoppy Hopkins, and the accompanying talks series ‘In Search of Space’; the visual arts programme of ‘Radiance: Glasgow’s Festival of Light’, …
Adams was born in England in 1953. He received a B.A. from the Newcastle Polytechnic Fine Arts Institute in Newcastle, England. A member of the Basement Group, a Newcastle-based exhibition and production venue for performance, video and film, from 1979 to 1984, he has received awards from the Arts Council of Great Britain, Northern Arts, and the Massachusetts State Council on the Arts and Humanities.
Adams has taught at institutions including Newcastle Polytechnic and Sheffield Polytechnic in England; …
Mineo Aayamaguchi was born in Takasaki, Japan in 1953 and studied at St Martins School of Art in London, 1974-78. He was Guest Artist at ESBAP, Porto, Portugal in 1979 and Artist in Residence at the Stadtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany, 1981.
He lived in London from 1974-2006 and now lives in Japan.
“Aayamaguchi has worked across performance, painting, installation and video, making painterly, abstract, intensely coloured multi-monitor installations and gallery artworks. …
“The participatory video time-delay artwork Videvent (’75) came out of Hoey’s research with the computer department at the Slade School of Art. He and Wendy Brown collaborated on various video artworks, and as Artists in Residence they initiated and ran the yearly Biddick Farm Arts Centre Shows in Tyne and Wear from ’76-’80, which positioned British works alongside contemporary international video art. Hoey was one of the founding members of LVA.”
– J.Hatfield
BRIAN HOEY
Brian Hoey studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art graduating with a Dip. …
“Tina Keane works with an expanded vision of moving image, making participatory installations, expanded monitor video sculptures, performance and mixed media, and film. Her work is imbued with a feminist aesthetic, the politics of femaleness, gender, and sexuality are inherent, and woven throughout. These ideas have led Keane’s experiment with many different mediums and changing technologies, from painting with pure light, site related neon, sound, performance, to film and video.” – J.Hatfield
“Born 1940. …
