Early-career artists selected for Film London s FLAMIN Fellowship development scheme
Seema Mattu, Hijra = Higher (2021), video still.
LONDON
.- Six early-career artist-filmmakers have been selected for the fourth edition of Film Londons FLAMIN Fellowship scheme, a development programme offering mentoring, seed finance and professional development alongside access to audiences, curators and established artist advisors.
Taking vastly different approaches to the moving image, the selected artists utilize hybrid documentary, performance, 3D world-building, puppetry, collage, archival footage, text and poetry within their varied work. Projects supported through this round of The Fellowship explore bold and diverse themes, offering insights into the mythical landscapes of Ireland and North Africa, queer counter-histories and rainbow capitalism, as well as Afro-Caribbean folklore. Other projects will explore systems of caste, diasporic memory and transgenerational trauma through we
Tate Britain Commission: Heather Phillipson RUPTURE NO.1: blowtorching the bitten peach
Heather Phillipson. Photograph by Rory Van Millingen.
LONDON
.- Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) is the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. This major commission is the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipsons expansive, multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse.
Heather Phillipson To Create Next Tate Britain Commission
Heather Phillipson (b.1978, London) will be the next artist to undertake the annual Tate Britain Commission. To be unveiled when the museum reopens, this major commission will be the latest response to the unique architecture and context of the neo-classical Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.
Her work tackles pressing contemporary issues in singular and remarkable ways – Alex Farquharson
Audacious and disconcerting, Heather Phillipson’s expansive multimedia projects include video, sculpture, installation, music, poetry and digital media. Described by the artist as ‘quantum thought-experiments, her works often carry a sense of latent threat – a feeling that received ideas, images, and the systems that underpin them may be on the verge of collapse.