JOANNA MAYES

Artist film

experimental processes, organic materials
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joanna mayes

Joanna is an artist who works with film and sound, exploring the experience of being in a location at a particular time through the medium of film. Bringing her experience of musical improvisation into her practice, Joanna opens her work up to chance through hand processing and the use of organic materials, to create short film-poems that reverberate between abstraction and control. She represents place through a layering of approaches to materiality: analogue film responds to the light in that place and time, physical outcomes are often charged with atmosphere from the site through use of materials of the locality, such as seawater for processing and lichen & berries for tinting the film.
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watching the sun

A Mayes Creative commission, working with the Royal Astronomical Society Library
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surf film

Taking experimental and textural approaches to capturing the experience of surfing
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lichenology

A research project, working with local lichen to tint film.
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Process

notebook

* Being Present with Place and Materials
* Foraging and Filming​

testing

Materials
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Lichen film tinting
Experiments with organic materials

process

Processing
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Seaweed developer
Hand processing film to allow unexpected interventions

projection

Live Visuals
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Live manipulation of original film
Digital visuals from analogue source material
Outcomes

outcomes

Works on Film
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  • About
  • Works on Film
  • Live Visuals
  • Notebook/Blog
  • Contact