Projects involving Film
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Some of Janine's projects have involved art films which allow
the combination of images in a dream like flow alongside projection of drawings
and very low tech marks. Some film has resulted from responding to schools
workshop or public community projects, others have been created from more
directly personal themes.
Film development work was funded by an Arts
Council Development Grant, another film was a 'Year of the Artist' funded
collaboration with contemporary dancer Kate Lawrence and two later films were
funded from Big Draw grants.
Click images with borders for enlargements
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St Catherine's Chapel Performance
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A project as part of the Arts Council
Funded 'Year of the Artist' April 2001
A collaboration of Janine with dancer
Kate Lawrence, and lighting designer Charlotte McLelland.
The performance involved leading the
audience from Guildford's electric Theatre along the river Wey to the
ruined Chapel of St Catherine in Artington.
Kate danced in two of the high window
recesses of the chapel behind a back projected film of drawing and
evocative references to the ghostly history of the chapel.
The performance involved consulting
with local historians, congregation of St Nicholas church Guildford, the
National Trust, Guildford Borough Council, and dance students at Surrey
University.
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Elemental Drawing
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A project with 2 by 4 Artists group
for the national Big Draw in October 2004
7 artists worked with the public in
The Forum in Horsham town centre to create strong imagery on the ground
in rice, lentils, soil, shells, stones etc. on the theme of the
Elements.
Janine Coordinated the project,
photographed and filmed on the day.
She then edited the film to make a
flowing dreamlike record of the event.
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Beyond Belief
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Beyond Belief was the launch
exhibition of the Surrey based group Blink. There were 3 other
artists involved all responding in their individual ways to the theme
and the venue of St Mary's church in Guildford.
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Trinity
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Janine's
contribution to Beyond Belief was a film projected across the altar
bringing references of her journeys abroad looking at sculptures from
many religions. The central idea was that the core of all belief
has something in common. It made reference to the concept of
trinity - the title of the three cement heads that link the sections of
the film together.
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In 2007 Janine was selected as part of
a West Sussex County Council project of partnering artists with Heritage
sites to create new public Big Draw activities.
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Gorgeous Fragments
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One of her partner venues was The Weald & Downland Open Air Museum
near Chichester. The vast scale of the site lead to Janine exploring
it first in film and photography to come up with an accessible concept to
for drawing.
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The concept became 'Gorgeous
Fragments'. That was: to see the site not in historical or social
terms but in purely visual terms of pattern and texture. The film
was to go alongside photographs to introduce some fragment ideas in a
dreamlike way.
The public were then free to take the
idea and look for their own fragments to draw out in pencil, pen and
glow paint. These were displayed as tiles hung on a wire roof in the
dark of one of the reconstructed buildings. The textures and
patterns became illuminated with the glow paint and UV torches
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