In mid-December I went up to Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre for the day. It was so good to get out of London for a short while and explore somewhere new. Bury is on the tram route from Manchester and easily accessible. I had enough time to see all the 10 shortlisted videos for the Next Thing Moving Image Award and the exhibition by Yuen Fong Ling. Thinking it might be the only time to see my video Chalk projected at a large size I had wanted to go there, and I really enjoyed all the other videos, with personal favourites Useless Machines by Kialy Tihngang, Search to Belong by Svetlana Ochkovskaya and As long as there is bone there is language by Arit Emmanuela Etukudo.
From Disrupted Landscapes
Also in mid-December I was very surprised and extremely happy to hear that my Disrupted Landscapes work had been shortlisted for the AIS Open 2022 Women Behind the Lens. There was a fantastic jury for this exhibition and applicants from over 20 countries. 22 photographers have made the shortlist and it’s been great to read about their different projects. You can read more about AIS Open, the theme and the jurors here https://www.indiansummer.org.uk/open-2022
Fragment, 2021
Also in December, SELECT/21 opened at Photofusion. This members’ award show, with artists from 2020 and 2021, features Maria Ahmed, Tamsin Green, Hayleigh Longman, Steve Pill, Mathushaa Sagthidas, Jannine Smith and myself. It was a lovely opening event catching up with friends I hadn’t seen in a long time. I've 2 works on acrylic in the show that relate to an earlier series, Sea Level + a short video, Frame. The show runs until 21 January.