Kelly Richardson
Renowned International media artist Kelly Richardson joined us in autumn 2012 to carry out a curatorial residency. Richardson spent the time researching and curating a new programme of artist film and video, taking inspiration from her own large-scale moving image artworks.
The screening programme, On the Precipice, explores our relationship towards landscape and nature at a particularly critical time in human history; we are on the precipice of enormous change and almost certain unprecedented environmental disaster. Richardson's research focused on exploring the various ways artists chose to represent and respond to this theme.
The artist–curated programme is a commission for the Big M, D6’s inflatable mobile exhibition space. The programme is in partnership with Culture Lab, who developed new digital and technological responses for the Big M.
Richardson spoke at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival about her curatorial debut On the Precipice. On the Precipice was an exhibition of immersive film installations that toured the North East in The Big M. Joining Richardson for the talk from Belgium was Alexandra Crouwers, whose work The White Hide [III] features in On the Precipice.
The Big M was on Parade in Berwick-upon-Tweed during Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival from Friday 28th September to Saturday 29th September screening On the Precipice. Richardson and Crouwers were at the Gymnasium Gallery on Saturday 28th Sept to speak about their artistic practice, the various works featured in On the Precipice and the thematics that have influenced both their practices.Richardson also discussed how these themes run through her previous work The Last Frontier, which premiered at the Festival later that year in Bankhill Icehouse.
On the Precipice was devised and developed by North East based, Canadian-born artist, Kelly Richardson, and features work by richardson herself, Gordon Cheung (UK), Alexandra Crouwers (The Netherlands/Belgium), Jenn E Norton(Canada), Jillian McDonald (Canada/USA),Emily Richardson(UK) and Brigitte Zieger(Germany/France).
Their films, examining the role human history has played in the development and arguable decline of our global environment, are screened on three screens positioned inside The Big M, creating an immersive experience and exploring our relationship with various contemporary landscapes.
The Last Frontier was presented in Bankhill Ice House, Thursday 25th - Sunday 29th September, in partnership with Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) and was supported by Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Sustainable Development Fund.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kelly Richardson is a Canadian artist, living and working in North East England. Having studied fine and media arts, she received her undergraduate degree from the Ontario College of Art & Design (Canada) and her masters degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada) and Newcastle University (UK).
From 2012-2013 her work was the subject of a touring, 15 year retrospective at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, UK), Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool, UK), Towner (Eastbourne, UK) and Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA) followed by a smaller presentation at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada) in 2014.
Richardson has been widely acclaimed in North America, Asia and Europe. Her work was selected for the Beijing, Gwangju and Busan biennales, and major moving image exhibitions including The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, USA) and Caixaforum (Barcelona, Spain), Videosphere: A New Generation at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA) and Visions Fugitives at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France). Her video installations have been included in the Toronto International Film Festival (2012) and Sundance Film Festival (2011 and 2009) and in 2009, she was honoured as the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards. Richardson's work has been acquired by major museums across the USA and Canada, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal and Art Gallery of Ontario.
The screening programme, On the Precipice, explores our relationship towards landscape and nature at a particularly critical time in human history; we are on the precipice of enormous change and almost certain unprecedented environmental disaster. Richardson's research focused on exploring the various ways artists chose to represent and respond to this theme.
The artist–curated programme is a commission for the Big M, D6’s inflatable mobile exhibition space. The programme is in partnership with Culture Lab, who developed new digital and technological responses for the Big M.
Richardson spoke at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival about her curatorial debut On the Precipice. On the Precipice was an exhibition of immersive film installations that toured the North East in The Big M. Joining Richardson for the talk from Belgium was Alexandra Crouwers, whose work The White Hide [III] features in On the Precipice.
The Big M was on Parade in Berwick-upon-Tweed during Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival from Friday 28th September to Saturday 29th September screening On the Precipice. Richardson and Crouwers were at the Gymnasium Gallery on Saturday 28th Sept to speak about their artistic practice, the various works featured in On the Precipice and the thematics that have influenced both their practices.Richardson also discussed how these themes run through her previous work The Last Frontier, which premiered at the Festival later that year in Bankhill Icehouse.
On the Precipice was devised and developed by North East based, Canadian-born artist, Kelly Richardson, and features work by richardson herself, Gordon Cheung (UK), Alexandra Crouwers (The Netherlands/Belgium), Jenn E Norton(Canada), Jillian McDonald (Canada/USA),Emily Richardson(UK) and Brigitte Zieger(Germany/France).
Their films, examining the role human history has played in the development and arguable decline of our global environment, are screened on three screens positioned inside The Big M, creating an immersive experience and exploring our relationship with various contemporary landscapes.
The Last Frontier was presented in Bankhill Ice House, Thursday 25th - Sunday 29th September, in partnership with Visual Arts in Rural Communities (VARC) and was supported by Northumberland Coast Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Sustainable Development Fund.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kelly Richardson is a Canadian artist, living and working in North East England. Having studied fine and media arts, she received her undergraduate degree from the Ontario College of Art & Design (Canada) and her masters degree from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (Canada) and Newcastle University (UK).
From 2012-2013 her work was the subject of a touring, 15 year retrospective at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art (Sunderland, UK), Grundy Art Gallery (Blackpool, UK), Towner (Eastbourne, UK) and Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA) followed by a smaller presentation at the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver, Canada) in 2014.
Richardson has been widely acclaimed in North America, Asia and Europe. Her work was selected for the Beijing, Gwangju and Busan biennales, and major moving image exhibitions including The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, USA) and Caixaforum (Barcelona, Spain), Videosphere: A New Generation at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo, USA) and Visions Fugitives at Le Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France). Her video installations have been included in the Toronto International Film Festival (2012) and Sundance Film Festival (2011 and 2009) and in 2009, she was honoured as the featured artist at the Americans for the Arts National Arts Awards. Richardson's work has been acquired by major museums across the USA and Canada, from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and Albright-Knox Art Gallery to the Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal and Art Gallery of Ontario.