Interviews with artists Kirsty Guevara-Flanagan, Martin O’Neill, Miriam Elia, Osbert Parker, Siobhan Davies and David Hinton.
Kirsty Guevara-Flanagan
Martin O’Neill
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has made award-winning documentary films focusing on gender and representation for two decades, including feature docs Going on 13 (2009), Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), Body Parts (2022) and What Happened to Her (2016), a forensic exploration of our cultural obsession with images of the dead woman on screen. She is Associate Professor at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television.
London born Martin O’Neill creates mixed media collages for a wide range of international clients across publishing, advertising, design, film and interiors. His work evolves from a subtle alchemy of collage, silkscreen, photography, paint and digital techniques. He approaches each project with a fresh perspective; a constantly moving array of processes fuel an evolving practice which include typography, writing and experimental film. Years of hands-on studio experimentation have resulted in a unique and instantly recognisable brand of image making with an analogue ethos. Martin works from a large archive of found and self-generated material and also with supplied imagery.
Miriam Elia
Osbert Parker
Miriam Elia’s diverse work includes short films, animations, illustrated books, prints, drawings and surreal radio writing. She is best known for her art book We go to the gallery, in which she illustrated the classic Peter and JaneLadybird book characters grappling with conceptual art. The book drew threat of legal action from Penguin Group for infringement of copyright, and some changes were made to the names of characters and logos so it could be published as a parody. Penguin later released their own series of adult oriented Ladybirds books.
Three times BAFTA nominated and award winning Osbert Parker, is perhaps best known for creating stories that use experimental and innovative film techniques. They often combine photo cut-out animation with objects and live action to create one-of-a-kind imaginary landscapes in mixed media short films, commercials, TV entertainment and online content. ‘FILM NOIR’ was nominated for best short animated film by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) and won a Palme d’Or nomination at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. ‘YOURS TRULY’ aka ‘HEAD OVER HEELS, best short animated film winner at the British Animation Awards, was also nominated for a BAFTA in 2008 and selected for Sundance.
Siobhan Davies and David Hinton
Dame Siobhan Davies DBE is an English dancer and choreographer. She was a dancer with the London Contemporary Dance Theatre during the 1970s and became one of its leading choreographers. In 1988, she founded her own company, Siobhan Davies Dance. She is among the top contemporary
choreographers in the UK. David Hinton is a British film director who has twice won BAFTA awards for his documentaries. He is widely renowned for his Dance films and has collaborated with several choreographers to create original dance works for the screen. He has also made several experimental screen dance works using archive footage and ‘found’ movement and teaches dance film workshops all over the world.