Artsite | GILLIAN McIVER

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"Equally surrealist & realist."

Urban Exploration kicked it all off... Infiltrating hidden places, transgressing and trespassing ...

The way I very often choose to work is best described as "expressionist documentary." Darkly poetic explorations of places. Stories and explorations of real things, real places, reinterpreted through an expressionistic, subjective and wholly immersed direct experience.

The deep role of time and change is the basic subject matter for all of my work. I'm interested in the “reintegration of fragments” or what Anselm Kiefer has described as “bringing together what has come apart.”

I am interested in revealing images which are very strong; that offer a glimpse of past worlds and indistinct realities; where the boundaries between fiction and documentary blur, and memories take on a life of their own.




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Exhibition "Timeless Thames" The Steamship PS, London October 2020

 

 

ABOUT ME
  FILM MAKER AND WRITER
  COLLECTOR OF DEMONOLOGIES OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS
 

CO-FOUNDED LUNA NERA GROUP - TRAVELLING THE WORLD DOING URBAN EXPLORATIONS AND INTERVENTIONS

site-specific art - places I used for site specific projects

 

PhD in Film & Art History. Studied FilmMaking at University of Westminster; Studied History at University of Toronto & University Of British Columbia; Studied Visual Art at The Cass, London Guildhall.

  PHOTOGRAPHER; VIDEO ARTIST; FILMMAKER; WRITER
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Online, I'm The Art Traveller:

The Art Traveller - my general blog about art, travel and film

and let's not forget INSTAGRAM!!! @the_art_traveller

and my arthistory blog Art History for Filmmakers

and my soundcloud