Previous AA2A Artist

Sally Waterman

Artform:
Photographic and video artist
Year:
2012-13
Location:
London
Email:
email@sallywaterman.com
Project summary:

My interdisciplinary arts practice is concerned with the interpretation of literature into self-portraits. I create poetic still and moving image works that explore issues of memory, place and familial relationships. I re-invent the source material through a re-scripting exercise, seeking associations with certain images, themes, characters or concepts. My practice-led doctoral research at the University of Plymouth (2004-2010) used T.S Eliot’s 1922 poem, ‘The Waste Land’ as a framework to examine my self-representational strategies and adaptation methods, culminating in a collection of photographic and video installations that dealt with parental divorce and estrangement.

 

I used the AA2A residency to work on my current project, 'Translucence', which is an interpretation of Donna McKevitt’s musical score, ‘Translucence’ (Warner Classics, 1998), derived from Derek Jarman’s poetry. The set of three video works ('February', 'Against', and 'Wisdom'), and accompanying photographic series serve as a meditation on illness, loss and death. The main focus of the residency was to print the whole set of black and white 11x14" photographs in the darkroom, after carrying out some initial digital image/text tests in the digital suite. These works take carefully selected lines from poetry and prose as their titles, from Derek Jarman’s writing, along with authors such as Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. I also developed my employment of the family album from my previous 'Waste Land' project (2005-2010) for the 'Wisdom' video. After carrying out some tests in Final Cut Pro during the residency, I created a stop-frame animation sequence using digital snapshots taken over the last three years from Easter 2010 to Easter 2013, which documented my familial relationships, together with the changing seasons, which I completed in June.

My interdisciplinary arts practice is concerned with the interpretation of literature into self-portraits. I create poetic still and moving image works that explore issues of memory, place and familial relationships. I re-invent the source material through a re-scripting exercise, seeking associations with certain images, themes, characters or concepts. My practice-led doctoral research at the University of Plymouth (2004-2010) used T.S Eliot’s 1922 poem, ‘The Waste Land’ as a framework to examine my self-representational strategies and adaptation methods, culminating in a collection of photographic and video installations that dealt with parental divorce and estrangement.

 

I used the AA2A residency to work on my current project, 'Translucence', which is an interpretation of Donna McKevitt’s musical score, ‘Translucence’ (Warner Classics, 1998), derived from Derek Jarman’s poetry. The set of three video works ('February', 'Against', and 'Wisdom'), and accompanying photographic series serve as a meditation on illness, loss and death. The main focus of the residency was to print the whole set of black and white 11x14" photographs in the darkroom, after carrying out some initial digital image/text tests in the digital suite. These works take carefully selected lines from poetry and prose as their titles, from Derek Jarman’s writing, along with authors such as Kate Chopin, Sylvia Plath and Virginia Woolf. I also developed my employment of the family album from my previous 'Waste Land' project (2005-2010) for the 'Wisdom' video. After carrying out some tests in Final Cut Pro during the residency, I created a stop-frame animation sequence using digital snapshots taken over the last three years from Easter 2010 to Easter 2013, which documented my familial relationships, together with the changing seasons, which I completed in June.

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