Lucy Heyward
New Work
8 September - 7 October 2001
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An aerial film of the Zambezi river, a highly eroticized video portrait of an eagle and its captor and a projection of a moon-like male head: Three major new works by a highly exciting artist.
Silver Screen, is a moving image of the Zambezi river, shot from a light aircraft at 5000 feet. Filmed at a particular moment, the river appears to flow like mercury, compact, voluminous yet still reflective freeing the water from gravitational force and the work from simple reading.
Grip is a video loop of a Golden Eagle resting on a gloved hand. The bird has all it's aggressive faculties constrained, he cannot fly, he eats from his captors' hand, he is impotent and bored, the product of humans obsessive need to control, examine and redisplay nature.
The third piece, Ahead, looks like an image of a planet both in scale and texture, or a fingerprint, negligible and intimate. The work is a projection of the crown of a male head which, under particular lighting, reveals itself to be something other. Addressing maps, scale and individuality the work aims to challenge perceptions of place and self while also encouraging an awareness of the prosaic details around us.
Silver Screen has been developed during Lucy Heyward's NavvyGate residency at ArtSway funded by the Regional Arts Lottery Programme through Southern Arts.
Original filming of Silver Screen was supported by an award from the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation. Grip was produced while Lucy Heyward was Artists Fellow at Dundee Contemporary Arts, organised by University of Dundee, Visual Research Centre, Dundee Contemporary Arts with support from the Scottish Arts Council. Ahead has been supported by an Award to Artists grant from London Arts.
GALLERY TALK: Saturday 29 September 2pm FREE
Join artist Lucy Heyward & ArtSway director Mark Segal in an informal tour of the exhibition
Lucy Heyward and ArtSway would like to thank Jean Paul Martinon, Ken Eddy and his team at Filmair, Jane Hartwell, Jonathan Hills, Colin Peters at Home, Jim Allen at Big Bouy and Hugo Moss at Huge for their expertise and support in the making of Silver Screen.
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