Next Level is an art magazine founded by Sheyi Antony Bankale and Jimo Toyin Salako. ‘It is dedicated to showcasing photographic art, creativity and culture, the essential source for cutting-edge contemporary photographic art.’
My work has been published in the current Next Level 15, the H2O edition alongside writing about the images by Amanda Loomes.
‘Crossing Over’ Bioluminescent Photo Booth and Projected Portraits at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, 2nd Oct - 21st Nov 2008
September 23, 2008
As part of the exhibition ‘Crossing Over’ I will be showing a new body of work based on some of the countries most eminent scientists, utilizing bioluminescence. The work is made in collaboration with Dr Simon Park and Pattie Hendrie with sponsorship in kind from Bibby-Scientific and is curated by Dr Caterina Albano (Artakt, Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design), and Rowan Drury.
‘Going to Ouessant’ video encounters Oct 11,12
September 17, 2008
‘Going to Ouessant’ is an event taking place on the small island off the coast of Brittany on 11th and 12th Oct organised by Marcel Dinahet, Celia Cretien, FINIS TERRAE association. One of my films ‘Gin and Tonic’, filmed on board the James Clark Ross as we crossed the Convergence zone en route for Antarctica will be showing alongside 20 other contemporary artists showing video relating to themes of the sea, the littoral, insularity.
Gin and Tonic video still
‘Breathing Berg’ at Collision 2008
September 10, 2008
‘Collision is an annual festival of moving image, music, art and performance. It brings together artists from different disciplines and presents their work under one enormous roof over three nights, Thurs11, Fri12, sat13. It is an immersion into many forms of creative expression. New and surprising encounters occur as diverse pieces exist, and occasionally travel, in the same space at the same time. Collision is an experience that becomes more than a sum of its parts.’
The 2008 Collision Team:
Alon Ramage, Tom Slater, Hannah Mason, Ellie Doney, Belinda Abbott Supported by: Estelle Holland, Sara Fernandes, Linda Dobell, James O’Brien, Tom Hutchings
Venue:
Area 10 Project Space, Peckham, London, SE15 5JT
View e-flyer at www.collision.org.uk/e-flyer
‘Antarctic Walk’ video still
This looped short film, part of a series made in response to my residency in Antarctica, is representative of the relentless disorientation I felt in such an extraordinary disempowering environment. The colour effect of the strong 24hr daylight inside the red canvas tents in which we slept for 3 weeks added to the surreality of the situation.
Hastings Film Festival runs from 25July-1Aug 2008 ‘Antarctic walk’ will be shown in Claremont Art space, 12 Claremont, Hastings 01424 445743
The following images are of an installation made on Friday 20 June inside Burlington House, Piccadilly, to coincide with the book launch of ‘Bipolar‘. I took one of the lumps of ice I brought back from Antarctica out of its lodgings inside the British Antarctic Surveys freezer in Cambridge and let it not so gently melt over the course of the evening. It was acoustically wired up by sound engineers Lee Patterson and Mark Hornsby, and produced uncomfortably loud interruptions as the ancient air kept locked under pressure by the ice belched into the London air. I intend to reuse the meltwater in another project I’m working on. The cabinet was recycled from an exhibition held in the British museum.
New work at Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
June 3, 2008
Two new photographic images from the ‘Glass Burn’ series have been selected for the ‘Through the Lens’ photography exhibition, The Royal West of England Academy in Bristol.
Exhibition dates 8 June - 20 July 2008. Click here for more details.
Copyright Anne Brodie 2008
Walking into the silver galleries at the V&A after being asked to take part in the Friday Late series, took me straight back on board the ship to Antarctica… too much, too beautiful, too impossibly bright and shiny. It stopped me from looking. There could only be one possible response. Sometimes by taking something away do we only truly see it.
There is also more to the silver galleries than the silver, I wondered when the last time someone walking through here looked up at the paintings and ceiling above the cabinets?
‘BreathingBerg’ at Margate Rocks
April 22, 2008
Margate Rocks on Sunday 4 May. Click for details.
Breathing Berg is one of a series of short films made as a result of an Arts council/ British Antarctic Survey sponsored residency in Antarctica.
Most of the information coming out of Antarctica is scientific data monitoring the rate and implications of climate change, it is rigorously devoid of subjectivity. I felt a freedom as an artist to explore creatively the extraordinary world around me, and yet I was aware that the environment needed very little in the way of intervention, it already had its own voice; all it needed was a quiet witness.
Most people watching Breathing berg for the first time make an assumption that it has been digitally manipulated. We have grown so accustomed to the slick tricks of the advertising industry that we find it hard to believe that something so unworldly can in fact be real. My part in making the film was to be a bystander with a film camera and make the decision to overlay the sound. Antarctica is a hard place in which to be a human being and I wanted to reflect this without being too interventionary.
Anne Brodie at the V&A Museum ‘Friday Late’ Series
April 2, 2008
As part of the V&A Museum’s Friday Late series I will be taking part in the Blood on Paper exhibition on the evening of the 25th of april, creating a temporary installation based in the Silver and Sculpture galleries.
