Simon Sylvester

Aug 20, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Amie Kirby |Anthony Ellis |Simon Sylvester |Lesley Guy

As my train rolls into Kendal, I think about how, despite being a stone’s throw away, I’ve never visited before. I’m here now to see Thinking is Making, a group show of ten artists who have all been recipients of the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award (MTSA) in the past eleven years, spotlighting each individual artist and the richness of their practice, whilst bringing specific works into a wider dialogic space under the shared legacy of the MTSA.

Mar 28, 2024 | corridor8.co.uk | Simon Sylvester |Lesley Guy |Nia Thomas |Anthony Ellis

In the early days of cinema, a pioneering Russian filmmaker called Lev Kuleshov codified the editing technique of montage: the idea that unique and superficially unrelated shots could generate new meaning through the act of juxtaposition. To prove his theory, Kuleshov cut together shots of a famous theatre actor gazing at soup, to show his hunger; and then at a corpse, to show his sadness; and finally at a young woman, to show his love.