In this film, director Huw Wahl engages in conversations with artists, poets, curators, historians and Herbert Read's own children, to ask how we can apply Read's ideas and approaches to the commodification of culture in contemporary society.
A charming and thoroughly British guided tour to peripheries of modern society with the poet Stephen Watts, in crackling black and white images.
Founded by Ken Turner and his wife Mary Turner in 1968, Action Space used large inflatable sculptures to create interventions into public spaces. This short 16mm film by Turner’s son Huw Wahl is a poignant study of an artist in his 90s returning to his first love, painting, while reflecting on the radical public art movement he helped found.
