Tim Skinner
New-media Installation Artist
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footfall
Fallen
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Peak District
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Welcome
International New-media artist, from originally creating sonic installations, I now mainly work with video, creating abstracted, repetitious landscapes. Treating video similar to painting, my works are seen as memerising, ephemeral pieces which sometimes echoes darker melancholic undertones.
"Colour is the key. The eye is the hammer. The soul is the piano with its many chords. The artist is the hand that, by touching this or that key, sets the soul vibrating automatically." Wassily Kandinsky
News - November 2011
Been a while since I lastupdated the website, there are a few things I need to add. Firstly would like to congratulate 'firstsite' on getting the new building open a much needed boost to the local creative community. I'm currently stilll envolved with a crit group set up by firstsite twelve months ago to give selected artists the chance to come together to discuss various current contemporary artistic practices centred around our own work. We are currently working on thoughts and ideas around cross colaborations, also possible exhibitions within the group.
firstsite crit group - Joanne Newman, Gordon Flemons, Jamie Moakes and myself, plus support from Laura Earley (Assistant Curator - firstsite)
15 Days publication, recently firstsite have released a publication which is in conjunction with the 2009 series of one day residencies.
The publication was a limited run edition, if you would like a copy please contact firstsite.
Re:place Level Centre
Following on from the 5 day residencie in the Peak District in June, you can see more details on the work on the re:place website.
Level Centre Residency Artists' Residency at the Level Centre Five artists were invited to spend a week at the Level Centre, home to First Movement, during the first week of June 2011. Marc Atkinson, Marianne Holm Hansen, Bob Levene, Tim Skinner and Neil Wissink were invited to come to the Level Centre to explore the creative potential of the building, the technology within it, and the surrounding area.
http://re-place.co.uk/home/2010-projects/level-centre-residency
My recent work is currently exploring the footage taken during the residency.
Latest News 31/8/2011
17 Days Vol 4 , August 22nd - September 13th
The Bret LLewellyn Art Gallery
Alfred State College, Alfred NY, US
Next exhibition
Journey To The Podium, Rayleigh Windmill, 27th July - 21 Aug 2011STUDIO WORK (July 2011, Peak District Project)
Re:place, Level Centre, Rowsley, Derbyshire
Five day video art residecy between the 1st-5th June 2011, saw my work explore repetition within the landscape. Which meant I went searching for repetition without it forming naturally within my work. This short journey found me spinning within a densely wooded area, so vertcal lines wizzed passed. In stark constrast I found myself also filming a vista which just echoed pure and simple beauty.
Recent Projects
Re:place - Level Centre Residency
Rowsley, Peak District, Derbyshire, June 2011The Centre
The Landscape
The Work
Fallen Exhibition and residency
Fallen - Solo Exhibition
May 6th - June 10th (11am-4pm, Mon-Fri)New Visual Approach to Leaf Fall
International video artist Tim Skinner has adapted the complex scientific understanding of autumn’s swansong, into a poetic ephemeral visual portrayal, bringing science and art together. The work supported by CADE (Centre for the Arts and Design in the Environment) explores visual and audio dimensions of plant senescence (aging resulting in leaf fall). Over the past six months, he has been collaborating with scientists Ron Fryer and Margaret Sommerville at Writtle College. Tim’s work has engaged both art and science students, and now allows the public a chance to experience his unique brand of video art, in a month long exhibition being held at Writtle College. The exhibition will be split across the campus, the majority of the work will be centred in the hub of the College main building, and another will be featured within the science laboratories.
The residency has been funded by Arts Council England with in-kind support from CADE and firstsite.
This project comes at a turning point in Tim Skinner’s career, both creatively and professionally. Self-exploratory videos have made way for more collaborative-based informative pieces. Recent works such as ‘Bully’ and ‘Two Måner’ have illustrated Tim’s diversity; the first an Essex County Council commission working with current British national and Olympian field hockey player Chloe Rogers; the second an installation collaborating with Danish contemporary artist Stephanie Donsoe.
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Recent Exhibition
17Days - Frostic Gallery, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
http://17days.wordpress.com/
http://www.wmich.edu/art/exhibitions/galleries/current.php
MUTATIONS
UPDATE
Currently undertaking a new body of explorations into beauty within repetition and constant visual recycling. 'Mutations' feeds of the visuals of my two channel video installation 'Footfall'. Really like this concept of using the video documentation of the installation, to create a new installation, which in turn will create another, making an endless cycle of visuals and inturn understanding the true nature of repetition. The aim will be to produce a book documenting my aesthetic exploration.
Fallen (on now)
Latest images from 'FALLEN' pt.1 (photographs David Riches)
video of the piece here
