Saatchi Yates
Allez La France!
Artfilm was proud to produce this video for Saatchi Yates to promote the Allez La France! group show at their Cork Street gallery.
Featuring works by Jin Angdoo, Mathieu Julien, Hams Klemens, and Kevin Pinsembert. Taking its title from fans’ chants for the French national football team, the exhibition brings together the work of these four painters to consider the legacy of the painting tradition in France. The show presents new large-scale works and marks the first time these artists will be shown together in a gallery space.
Lyon & Turnbull, Modern Made:
Modern & Post War Art, Design & Studio and Contemporary Ceramics & Craft
Working on location with Lyon & Turnbull’s lead photographer, my job was to cover everything in video that was set up for photography.
This was a great way for Lyon & Turnbull to maximise content on the investment of transporting works of art from their October 2023 Modern & Post War Art sale and hiring the wonderful location house in Hammersmith, London.
A Scottish Colourist at 150: John Duncan Fergusson
In March 2024 Lyon & Turnbull presented a touring exhibition of paintings and sculptures by the Scottish Colourist, John Duncan Fergusson (1874-1961), to celebrate the 150th anniversary of his birth, in partnership with the Fleming Collection.
I was tasked with capturing views of the gallery and producing a video to mark the first time this body of Fergusson’s work had been exhibited together.
All the works were lent from private collections and from Lyon & Turnbull’s exhibition partner, the Fleming Collection.
It was a great pleasure to photograph and video Wayfinding, the debut solo exhibition by British artist Amelia Bowles.
Amelia’s work sits between sculpture, painting and architecture; making use of the activity of light, colour and form, she claims the void and what is immaterial to facilitate the conditions for a series of physiological, cognitive and perceptual encounters.
Wayfinding, a word that relates to both ancient navigation practices as well as urban signage, hints at an attempt to navigate these encounters, both for the viewer and the artist herself.
Amelia’s Wayfinding relishes the journey and the infinite perceptual possibilities of a world that is simultaneously vast and intimate, a world with no end-points.
Ione & Mann Gallery, March 2024. Mayfiar, London
Anastasia Von Seibold Japanese Art: Edo to Now
The exhibition brings together a selection of fine Japanese art from the Edo period (1615-1868) to the present day.
A highlight of the exhibition is the masterpiece by Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Rainstorm Beneath the Summit, a woodblock print from the iconic series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. Further woodblock prints by artists Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kunisada and Totoya Hokkei are included, along with a pair of silver-leaf folding screens depicting pine trees by Uenaka Chokusai (1885-1977), and a group of intricate Edo and Meiji Period lacquer boxes, inro and netsuke from the Ankarcrona collection.
Bárbara Alegre | Dancing in the Sky, Waiting for the Sunset
Artfilm had the great pleasure of photographing the first UK solo exhibition by Spanish artist Bárbara Alegre for Ione and Mann Gallery.
For this series of paintings, predominantly works on paper, Alegre used the make-up and brushes her mother left behind. What started initially as an attempt to keep her close and a way to process the unassimilable void, gradually evolved into a symbolic exploration of what "makes up" who we are, our beliefs, and the links to the world around us.
Alegre approaches the subject with authenticity and grace, making no demands for resolution or redemption. Following a path through grief, loss, love, acceptance and hope, this poignant body of work is a celebration of life, affirming an all-encompassing sense of connection, gratitude, presence and belonging; a tribute to those who walked before us, those who walk beside us and, ultimately, ourselves.
The gallery images and portrait of the artist were taken at Cromwell Place, a first-of-its-kind exhibition and working space for galleries, dealers, collectors and art professionals seeking a presence in central London.
