Mike Leggett

Mike Leggett

United Kingdom

Mike Leggett has been working across the institutions of art, education, cinema and media arts since the mid 1960s. He has film and video artwork in archives and collections in Europe, Australia, North and South America. He has a Master of Fine Art from the College of Fine Art, University of New South Wales, and a PhD from the Creativity and Cognition Studios, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney.

Most Known for...

Movie Picture

Vistasound 1982

A film that raises questions about the associations between song lyrics and particular places.
Movie Picture

Red + Green + Blue 1976

In this structural-materialist film, colour is generated by landscape: from the sky, the grass and berries.
Movie Picture

Shepherd’s Bush 1971

Shepherd’s Bush was a revelation. It was both true film notion and demonstrated an ingenious association with the film-process. It is the procedure and conclusion of a piece of film logic using a brilliantly simple device; the manipulation of the light source in the Film Co-op printer such that a series of transformations are effected on a loop of film material. From the start Mike Leggett adopts a relational perspective according to which it is neither the elements or the emergent whole but the relations between the elements (transformations) that become primary through the use of logical procedure.