Wendy Kirkup

Wendy Kirkup

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Search 1993 (8.667)

Pat Naldi and Wendy Kirkup’s project SEARCH consists of silent video documenting a synchronised walk undertaken by the artists in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre in 1993, recorded on the then-brand-new 16 camera surveillance system run by Northumbria Police (Newcastle upon Tyne was the first city centre in the UK to install a Closed Circuit Television network). The resultant footage was given to the artists who edited it into twenty 10 second sequences which were then transmitted completely unannounced during the commercial breaks on Tyne Tees Television between 21st June and 4th July 1993.
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The Forest of Everything 2019

The Forest of Everything (2019) is about collaborating, a playing with and knowing with. Influenced by Margaret Tait’s Aerial (1974), Kirkup, Carey and the children played, played, and played again with the materials around them; light, water, air, earth and trees. Knowing and knowing anew how we meet and compose these materialities through moving, making, looking and listening. The images and soundtrack are made from the children’s own recordings of their surroundings, a song they wrote, and fragments of their play.
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rough cut botanical 2022

rough cut botanical interweaves multiple images of plant and animal life while a voice speaks to the materiality of its subject matter and to film itself. Inspired by audio description, it playfully explores how two people may speak their space together. Shot on 16mm, the film uses a matte box, an old cinematic technique to create multiple exposures.