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Playback: Realising Your Creative Vision
22 Mar 2018
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Join three artists at different stages of their career as they talk about their artistic processes and how they realise their creative vision.
Rehana Zaman, Maeve Brennan and Graeme Arnfield present their recent work and discuss the differences between making work for the gallery and the cinema screen, while offering advice on how they navigate the industry.
Graeme Arnfield (born in 1991 in the UK) is a filmmaker and artist living in London, and raised in Cheshire, UK. His work explores issues of circulation, spectatorship and history and has been presented worldwide including Berlinale Forum Expanded, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Courtisane Festival, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival, Sonic Acts Festival, European Media Arts Festival, Hamburg International Short Film Festival, Kasseler Dokfest, Plastik Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, LUX, Institute of Contemporary Arts and on Vdrome. He graduated with a Masters in Experimental Cinema at Kingston University and is currently making a film with FLAMIN.
Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Recent solo exhibitions include The Drift at Chisenhale Gallery, London, Spike Island Bristol and The Whitworth, University of Manchester (all 2017) and Jerusalem Pink, OUTPOST, Norwich (2016). She was educated at Goldsmiths, University of London and was a fellow of the Home Workspace Programme at Ashkal Alwan in Beirut (2013-14). She received the Jerwood/FVU Award 2018 and will be exhibiting her new commission at Jerwood Space, London from April 2018.
Rehana Zaman is an artist based in London working predominantly with moving image. Her work considers the interplay of multiple social dynamics, producing narrative-based artworks that are often generated through conversation or collaboration with others. Recent solo exhibitions include CCA, Glasgow (2018), Material Art Fair, Mexico City (2017), Tenderpixel, London (2016) and The Tetley, Leeds (2014).
Group exhibitions and screenings include Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Raven Row, London, Contemporary Art Tasmania, The Irish Film Institute, Dublin, Whitechapel Gallery, London, Projections Art Rotterdam, and Konsthalle C, Stockholm. In 2017 Zaman was the recipient of the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists.
