Over the last couple of months Joanna Bryant Projects worked with Royal West Academician, Sara Dudman, to create a film looking back at the last five years of her practice.  The film is split into three bitesize parts and the third and final part, ‘Shifting Balances‘ brings us up-to-date with Sara’s practice and most recent paintings, exploring some of the conclusions and pause for thought she is currently contemplating, particularly during the COVID-19 Pandemic, involving truths about nature, the environment and mankind.

Joanna Bryant worked with Sara Dudman RWA to create a film looking back over the last five years of Sara’s practice.  The film is split into three bitesize parts and the second part, ‘Patterns of Behaviour‘ looks at  the events and ideas that took her on travels around the UK from Shetland to Cornwall, studying the behaviour of migrating birds and further exploring nature, the environment and mankind.    Part three will continue her journey to her most recent paintings and the conclusions or Pause for Thought she is currently facing.

During the 2019/20 Pandemic, I worked with Sara Dudman RWA to create a film looking back over the last five years of Sara’s practice.  Starting with her 2016 painting ‘Kittiwakes (Fallen Rock, Cowbar 2)‘ we uncover the drive and subsequent exploration into her subject matter.  The film is broken down into three parts and this first part, ‘A Relationship of All Parts‘ introduces us to the fundamentals of Sara’s practice and the events and ideas that resulted in the first painting that is examined in this film.

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For the last decade, Nikolai Ishchuk’s work has explored photography’s ambivalent relationship with modernist art and shows that any attempt to distil the fundamentals of photography is more able to open up a conversation with other art media such as painting or sculpture.  His practice is interesting and some of his work intensely seductive. His work was showcased by me at Photo London in both 2018 and 2019 as a contemporary, emerging artist, engaging with the overlapping worlds of photography, painting and sculpture.  My fellow curator, Julian Page, and I interviewed Nikolai to bring together his practice through to 2020.  Watch the video interview

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A short documentary following a day in the life of sculptor, Kostas Synodis, stuck in his apartment during the nation-wide lockdown, trying to stay creative in the face of a global pandemic.

(Shot and edited with available equipment under lockdown.)