Chris Welsby

Chris Welsby is a landscape artist and pioneer of the moving-image installation in Britain, whose subtle meditations are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Featured on the DVD are works from different stages in his career, uniquely tracing his development as an artist, from his ear...

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Other Authors: Welsby, Chris
Institution:Open Society Archives at Central European University
Language:English
Published: British Artists' Films
United Kingdom
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10891/osa:7b2e055a-58f2-4b3d-a588-dbe809db5910
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Summary:Chris Welsby is a landscape artist and pioneer of the moving-image installation in Britain, whose subtle meditations are exhibited in museums and galleries around the world. Featured on the DVD are works from different stages in his career, uniquely tracing his development as an artist, from his early critical responses to British structural filmmaking and Minimalism of the 1970s to his mature, contemplative landscape works of the 1980s and 1990s. The films are: Stream Line, Park Film,Windmill lll, Seven Days, Wind Vane, Sky Light, Drift, and River Yar (made with William Raban).