Melanie Stidolph

Thank you to Naomi Frears who curated last week’s sound show at Porthemor Studio with works by; Dan Scott, Josie Cockram, Oliver Sutherland and a new sound piece from me To Die By Your Side.

In and Out of Love was selected for, and had its first screening at Future Imperfect at Plymouth University in April. Organised by Allister Gall and Katy Richardson the seminar was a day of screenings, workshops, a presentation by Melanie Manchot and finale by the Imperfect Orchestra.  imperfectcinema.com.

Installation of video ‘In and Out of Love’ at Black Box Curatorial Project, University of the Creative Arts, Farnham.

Tate Film Club runs as part of the Wadebridge Look Group and is programmed by the group, Circle Contemporary and Tate St Ives. This screening on 14th January at Hawksfield showed work by Naomi Frears, Rachael Jones and myself. Thank you for the invitation Jeanie Sinclair, Assistant Learning Curator, Tate St Ives.

I was invited by Tate St Ives to programme Film Club on 18 August as part of the gallery’s Summer of Art. Titled after the Air Supply hit of 1980, All Out of Love, the selected films draw on the exhaustion and frustration of endings, but also feats of effort: actions driven ‘out of love’. The screening included works by Margaret Salmon, winner of the first Max Mara Art Prize, Turner Prize nominee James Richards, Naomi Frears, collaborators Simon Bayliss and Susie Green with their new work Love Immersion and recent Falmouth University graduate Charlie Fairbairn.

Screened as part of The Voyeurs in St Ives last week, The Pleasure, The Privilege is the starting point for a new work. Based on short sequences unified through sung vocals from The Smiths song There is a light that never goes out, laid over ambient sounds of insects and birds. The developed film will utilise shifts between devised and incidental vignettes joined together to reflect an emotive pull and heightened observation of immediate surroundings. A snippet from the film is here – https://vimeo.com/

Thanks to Naomi and Simon for the invite. I’m showing a new film. There’s food (Dom from CAST so it’ll be good) and a bar. Frears & Bayliss Present: The Voyeurs – An Evening of Short Films by Anne McGuire | Tracy Moffatt | Rachael Jones | James Hankey | Melanie Stidolph | Jean Genet | Kurt Kren. 7 – 9.30pm, Thursday 2nd June. Free Admission.  3 Porthmeor Studios, St Ives Cornwall, TR26 1NG.

Met the excellent Ben James from South Kiosk on the recent The Cornwall Workshop. My work The Conversation III is being screened as part of the South Kiosk programme during Peckham 24 over the 20th – 21st May at the Nines Bar in Peckham – www.southkiosk.com

The Exchange in Penzance warmly hosted SWARM on Saturday 23rd April. Initiated by KARST and Back Lane West and organised by Field Notes SWARM invited artists and organisations from across the South West to meet and chat. Sharp and funny presentations from Gordon Dalton (featuring the above owl), Network Manager Visual Arts South West, and Lucy Stein and Simon Bayliss (‘Machu Picchu / Pecha Kulcha…’). Simon’s write up on the day is here. Thanks for the invite Field Notes.