Three artists will be showing at this address. Two film makers, Annie Catford & Mike Sanders one of which is also a painter. The third person, Diana Harrison. will be showing a large single paper collage. There will be work on the walls and projected film, as well as films on monitors.
Annie Catford
Originally a painter I am now a film maker. For the past two years I have collaborated with the Zen Bicycle Band, flautist Paul Cheneour in particular. Once a month I show my films on the ceiling at Vinoteq Wine Bar, Dover. The Zen Bicycle Band play beneath. They are freeform musicians, no written music. They have made CDs that I use as my sound tracks to create a structural pattern for the film making. The films are anything from 3-20 mins long, but are joined as compilations up to 60 mins long for their performances. The films are silent when the band play live. I made a DVD for a band called WHERENESS to their own tracks and have shown the film at The Green Room, Folkestone, also at the Fruitworks, Canterbury.
Mike Sanders
Mike Sanders was born in London and studied photography at Ealing College of Art, gaining the Associateship of The Royal Photographic Society. He became a Senior Designer in BBC Graphic Design Department in charge of BBC Photography. He also worked closely with BBC Music & Arts, directing eight programmes in the 100 Great Paintings series. Over a thirty year period Mike was involved with colleges of art and design as a visiting lecturer and external examiner. As a fusion artist his work takes a multi-media approach to include photography, painting, film, sound works, artists books and creative writing. Mike has exhibited in Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt, Paris and New York as well as galleries in the UK.
Whereas most artists develop a consistent approach to their work I don't have a signature style. Instead I work with ideas and a variety of media to explore them. The central question in art is how to represent something. I like the idea that a work can have more than one meaning, one that often reveals itself through the working process. The question is therefore not so much what the work represents as what it might become.
Visit Mike’s website here
Diana Harrison
I use mixed media to engage with certain imagery where a range of motifs and elements create an opportunity for articulating felt experience visually rather than trying to express in words something that is difficult to speak. Most important is making the truth FELT rather reducing the compositional traces to an illustrative narrative dependent on a chronology of events which inevitably has been fragmented and made unstable by time. I am an active exhibiting member of the local arts community. In 2018 I was co-organiser of the Hythe Festival Art Trail when artists across Sandgate, Seabrook, Hythe and the Romney Marsh opened their studios as part of the biannual festival for the first time. I was a founder member and co-designer of the 'Look Out & Remember' memorial garden in the Lower Leas Coastal Park and tutor for 'Folkestone is an Art School' in 2017, a Triennial activity directed by Bob and Roberta Sith, RA.
