November has been a busy and enjoyable month. I was very happy to hear that my new video, Chalk, had been chosen as one of 10 films to be shown as part of The Next Thing Award 2021, at Bury Art Museum & Sculpture Centre, and had made it into the top three. This was a lovely surprise as I never know what reception my videos will get. I really enjoyed working on Chalk though, and hope it may get some additional outings. Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre has a dedicated moving image gallery and has a great history of showing innovative, conceptual work at the museum. I definitely want to go up and see it, the show will run until late January 2022.
At LCC’s MA Photography graduation show
It was a great honour to be asked by Professor Val Williams to be a co-judge of the LCC MA Photography’s Sproxton Award 2021, alongside curator Anne Braybon, and fellow cohort Natalie Robinson. This year there was a physical installation of work externally curated by Vivienne Gamble, and a Virtual Showcase in the floorplan of the Turner Contemporary, curated by Val Williams and Charlotte Reeves. We looked at the work online and then walked around the different gallery areas. There was so much strong work that many projects were considered for the prize. We eventually agreed on our final selection of three projects, with Anne announcing the prize-winner and Natalie and I announcing the two highly commended works.
I’ve continued to add to the Disrupted Landscapes photographic series this month, and this is a recent one. I have some ideas of how a book of this work could look and have a rough outline, but I need to dedicate time to developing these book ideas further. A small publication was definitely one of my desired outcomes from the East Meets West Masterclass programme and this comes to an end in March 2022. There have been many online meetings among the group this past month as we discuss a collective project.