Tim Skinner
New-media Installation Artist
Artist
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2012 legacy
footfall
Fallen
15 Days
MUTATIONS
Cross Mentoring
Two Måner
Peak District
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Videos
Photography
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Cuckoo Farm Studios
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
New work 'Giverny' and 'Impressionism' series.
During last year’s summer I was on a video art residency in The Peak District (National park, Derbyshire, England). A comment from the site manager made me reflect and readdress the current position of my work. He told me my work was very textural, this was new for me, concepts surrounding texture within video hadn’t crossed my mind. Throughout my education painting played a huge part, I was constantly using texture within oil paint to express emotion and this has begged some questions: has my work gone full circle?
The 'Nympheas' piece was in direct response to this question, could I create something from scratch using computer technology, my own visual understanding of repetition, and which is in direct response to the painter which arguably started of my love affair with art.
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.
