Film Installation Exhibition:
16 February 2024 Friday 5 – 7pm
17 & 18 February Saturday & Sunday 2:30 – 5:30pm
Suggested Donations : £2
Artist’s Talk:
Session One : 16 February 2024 Friday 7 – 8pm
Session Two : 17 February Saturday 5:30 – 6:30pm
Session Three : 18 February Sunday 5:30 – 6:30pm (Full)
£5 | 8 places only per session | Please email divfuse@gmail.com for tickets
‘I first studied painting and was drawn into film by the possibilities of visual movement.
This show is a chance to develop ideas that began in those student days when I was projecting rhythmic frames of pure colour film onto paintings, and watching the shapes dance about. The DIVFUSE project space will become my first three dimensional canvas on which to try out ideas of colour light on painted surfaces.’ – Guy Sherwin
For the talk, the artist is going to project the original standard 8 film, using a standard 8 projector, onto some of his sketchbooks made in 1970 which were the start of his experiments in colour and film. He will then talk through his journey of arriving to the work that is being displayed today.
‘I have been making films since the early 1970s and these have taken various forms: silent black and white series (Short Film Series); projection onto special screens (Paper Landscape); longer form films (Messages); multi-projection performances with visual sound (Vowels & Consonants – made with Lynn Loo); looped installations (Three Trees).
What links these diverse approaches is the impulse to find out what happens when a new idea is tried out. It’s the process itself that largely determines the direction the work takes.’
Photo from Guy Sherwin