Tony Sinden. Born: 1943, Brighton, Sussex Died: 18 July 2009, Island of Sifnos.
Tony Sinden was an artist who began independently to make short experimental films in 1966. Subsequently he went on to produce several films funded by The British Film Institute and Arts Council of England. His practice in the 1970’s embraced a conceptual approach to film and video and wide-ranging debates of contemporary art. He was one of the first artists in the UK to exhibit film, …
Born 1947
Donebauer collaborated over a two year period with the electronics engineer Richard Monkhouse to build the Videokalos Colour Synthesiser, a portable image processing instrument. He explored performance, improvisation and the spontaneous real-time recording of video as an abstract art form, investigating its similarities to music. He formed ‘Video and Music Performers’ (VAMP) in 1979 and presented video in live video-music concerts, often collaborating with musician Simon Desorgher.
“Frequently described as an electronic painter, …
Marc Camille Chaimowicz was born in post-war Paris (1947), but moved in childhood to the suburban new town of Stevenage, England in 1954. He studied painting at Ealing School of Art and later at Camberwell College of Arts in London. After a visit to Paris in 1968, Chaimowicz abandoned work as painter, overwhelmed by the complexity of the painting he had seen and magnetised by the socio-political ferment of Paris at that time. …
John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins, born in Slough in August 1937, died January 2015.
“Hopkins founded TVX with Cliff Evans, which was the first British TV workshop and video research centre in 1969, and subsequently Fantasy Factory with Sue Hall. Hopkins and Hall made many video works, including social reportage: Ben’s Arrest, Song of Long Ago, Squat now whilst stocks last and Bungay Horse Fair and as TVX ‘experimental happenings’ at the BBC in the 1970’s.” …
Tamara Krikorian 1944 – 2009
Tamara was a leading light in the visual arts world of Wales. Tamara was best known for her championing of artists’ practice whilst director of, first the Welsh Sculpture Trust and then Cywaith Cymru . Artworks Wales, the national organisation for public art in Wales. She was instrumental in the development of the careers of some of Wales’s most exciting and interesting artists, offering them the support to take risks and multiple platforms and fora to show their work that went far beyond the traditional model of a public art agency. …
Doug Aubrey started out as a video artist and experimental film maker in the eighties, as part of the seminal art – duo Pictorial Heroes , before moving on to investigate the numerous Yugoslav conflicts in a number of internationally acclaimed documentaries.
In 2002 he jointly set up Autonomi with Berlin-Bear winning producer Marie Olesen. International one-off docs and series include: Victim of Geography, World of Skinhead, A Different Pitch, See You in the Next War and more recently Scottish BAFTA nominated
Wasted Nation and Harrigan’s Beat for BBC1 Scotland. …
David Critchley studied Fine Art at Newcastle Upon-Tyne Polytechnic and Environmental Media at the Royal College of Art. Since 1975 he has produced single and multi-screen videos and installations which have been exhibited in the UK, USA, Canada and across Europe.
In the late 1970’s he was one of the artists running the 2B Butler’s Wharf Performance Art Space and a founding member of London Video Arts (LVA) which is now the LUX Centre for Film, …
A founder member of LVA, Partridge was one of the first UK artists to make video artworks in the early 1970s. His early works played with and fore-grounded the formal language of video, the virtual space of the monitor relative to the exhibition space, the relationship between the viewer and the artwork, the art ‘work’ and context. Partridge established the Television Workshop, which offered facilities and support for artists’ production, helping to produce over two hundred and fifty artworks, …
