Born 1950, Isle of Man.
“Atherton has produced a substantial body of diverse work, performance, sculpture, film, and video, installation and site-related. The audience has been central to the becoming of his artworks, from the Brixton Platform sculptures, to his direct address of the invisible demarcation of ‘high’ and ‘low’ culture in Coronation Street. Atherton has used the art gallery as ‘theatre’ to question art and the artist ‘performer’ relative to the wider cultural influences of mass entertainment, …
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David Larcher was born in 1942. He studied at the University of Cambridge and the Royal College of Art, London. Initially a professional photographer, he used the film-printer to develop a film language unlike that of any of his contemporaries, creating two epic-scale feature films ‘Mare’s Tail’, 1969 and ‘Monkey’s Birthday’, 1975. A decade later he used new video and digital technologies with similar originality in a series of works made for television. He teaches at the Film Academy in Cologne. …
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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. …
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David Cunningham’s first significant commercial success came with The Flying Lizards’ record ‘Money’, an international hit in 1979. His work as producer, musician and composer has ranged across many genres of music and includes work for television, film, contemporary dance, and significant collaborations with visual artists and filmmakers.
In parallel with these comparatively conventional music activities his installation works have explored the real time experience of the acoustic qualities of a space. Locations have included Chisenhale Gallery London (1994), …
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The Duvet Brothers are Peter Boyd Maclean and Rik Lander. Lander and Maclean met at The Colchester Film Workshop and began collaborating in 1983. Their first collaborative work was Torchsong – Don’t Look Now. Beginning as a parody of a pop promo and recorded using 2 VCRs to the soundtrack of Magazine’s Motorcade, Boyd Maclean showed the completed piece to a band, the band wanted to re-make the promo starring themselves – the band was Torchsong and the song was Don’t Look Now. …
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From impassioned indictments of America’s culture of violence to soulful lamentations of spiritual loss, Daniel Reeves’ body of work constitutes an important elaboration of video poetics. Reeves began working in video in 1979. Combat experiences in Vietnam were the driving force behind his early videotapes, which developed from preparatory work in sculpture, photography and film, and culminated in a classic work, Smothering Dreams (1981), which won three Emmy awards.
Subsequent tapes refined this work’s use of poetic text and structure, …
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“Born Hannover, Germany, 1948. Expelled from Hornsey College of Art 1970. Worked as a designer and illustrator for the underground press in the 1970s (Oz, International Times) as well as a press photographer in Northern Ireland for the left-wing press (Morning Star, Socialist Worker, Black Dwarf). In the 1980s, began computer programming and experimenting with video using the programmes he developed for IO Research’s ‘Pluto’ computer. Commissioned by The Art of Noise, London Beat and The Stranglers to make music videos. …
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Born Derby, 1943 and studied at Derby College of Art and the West of England College, Bristol. Died October 2005.
From his early performances in the 1960s Breakwell worked in a diverse range of media, from painting to film, video, performance and installation. He exhibited widely and his paintings are in public and private collections including Tate Gallery, Contemporary Art Society, Victoria and Albert Museum; Museum of Modern Art, New York and Art Gallery of New South Wales, …
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“David Hall’s contribution to British video art is unparalleled.. and his early experiments with broadcast television are unique. Not only are many of his video pieces classics.. but he has made important and often brilliant contributions to experimental film, installation and sculpture.. A founding member of the video art movement here in the early 1970s he was an influential activist on behalf of the infant art form..” M O’Pray, A Directory of British Film & …
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“Le Grice’s work has spanned across media from film/video/digital, to computer, in various contexts and forms, with the concomitant material and linguistic complexities analysed in his published writing across decades. Since being at the technological centre of filmic exploration at the London Filmmakers Coop, Le Grice has continued with a similar line of experiment with video and digital cinema, that is, the exploration of colour, texture and sound, the unpicking of systems and structure, combining images as visual music.” …
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