Sherwin, Guy

Guy Sherwin studied painting at Chelsea School of Art in the late 1960s. His subsequent film works often use serial forms and live elements, and engage with light, time and sound as fundamental to cinema. Recent works include installations made for exhibition spaces and performance collaborations with Lynn Loo working with multiple projectors and optical sound.

Sherwin was guest curator of ‘Film in Space’ an exhibition of expanded cinema at Camden Arts Centre London 2012-3.

He taught printing and processing at the London Film-Makers’ Co-op (now LUX) during the mid-70s. His films were included in ‘Film as Film’ Hayward Gallery 1979, ‘Live in Your Head’ Whitechapel Gallery 2000, ‘Shoot Shoot Shoot’ Tate Modern 2002, ‘A Century of Artists’ Film & Video’ Tate Britain 2003/4. He lives in London and teaches at Middlesex University and University of Wolverhampton.

‘Guy Sherwin,’ Lux Online, 2005.

  • Exhibitions:

    *1975 Arte Ingless Oggi (1960-76), Palazzo Reale, Milan.
    *1978 A Perspective on English Avant-Garde Film, ACGB and British Council, London.
    *1980 Art Forum, Lodz.
    *1980 Photogallery, Wroclaw.
    *1983 Studio 200, Tokyo.
    *1984 Collective of Living Cinema, New York.
    *1984 Wright State University, Dayton.
    *1984 Alfred College, Buffalo.
    *1984 Funnel, Toronto.
    *1984 Cinematheque, San Francisco.
    *1984 Film Forum, Los Angeles.
    *1985 The New Pluralism, Tate Gallery, London.
    *1986 Cinematheque, San Francisco.
    *1987 The Elusive Sign, Tate Gallery, London.
    *1995 Utah Film and Video Centre, Salt Lake City.
    *1997 Artists’ Film & Video Series, Tate Gallery, London.
    *1998 Scratch, L’Entrepot, Paris.
    *1998 Slipstream, CCA, Glasgow.
    *2000 Live in Your Head: Concept and Experiment in Britain, 1965-75, Whitechapel Gallery, London.
    *2000 DNet, Lux Cinema, London.
    *2001 Trains of Thought, De Baile, Amsterdam.
    *2002 Yerba Buena Centre, San Francisco.
    *2003 On General Release: Artists and Film in Britain 1968-72, Norwich Gallery, Norwich.
    *2003 Moving Places, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth.
    *2003-4 A Century of Artists’ Films in Britain, Tate, London.
    *2004 Childhood and Language, Tate, London.
    *2004 Garden pieces, Tate, London.
    *2004 Substation, Singapore.
    *2004 Expanded Cinema – Films als Spektakel, Phoenixhalle, Dortmund.
    *2005 Flesh & Fantasy, Tate, London.
    *2005 291 Gallery, London.
    *2005 Eyedrum, Atlanta.
    *2005 e-m arts/ Fondazione Morra, Naples.
    *2006 Stary Browar Gallery, Poznan.
    *2006 CCA, Warsaw.
    *2006 Ocularis, New York.
    *2006 Les Voutes, Paris.
    *2006 The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus, Zurich.
    *2006 Double Negative Collective, La Sala Rossa, Montreal.
    *2006 Cinema Parallele, Montreal.
    *2006 FAMU, Prague.
    *2007 Kingsgate Gallery, London.
    *2007 Star & Shadow Cinema, Newcastle.
    *2007 BFI Southbank, London.
    *2007 Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels.

    Film Festivals
    Films selected for screening at the following film and media festivals:

    *1975 Bristol Independent Film Festival.
    *1976 Festival of Expanded Cinema, ICA, London.
    *1978 Avignon Festival.
    *1980 Paris Biennale.
    *1999 New York Film Festival.
    *2001 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
    *2001 Pandaemonium Film Festival, Lux Cinema, London.
    *2001 New York Underground Film Festival.
    *2002 Image Forum Festival, Japan.
    *2004 Artcite Festival, Windsor, Ontario.
    *2004 Mumbai Film Festival.
    *2006 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
    *2006 Evolution Festival, Leeds.
    *2006 SKIF Music Festival, St. Petersburg.

    Broadcast Screenings:

    * “Mile End Purgatorio” (Dir.) Transmitted The Late Show, BBC2, 1991.
    * “Mile End Purgatorio” (Dir.) Transmitted Midnight Underground, Channel Four, 1993.

  • Videography:

    1970
    Painted Screen

    1972
    Newsprint
    Sound Shapes
    Cycles 1 (aka Dot Cycle)

    1974
    At the Academy
    Interval
    Spirals

    1975
    Self Portrait
    Configuration
    Paper Landscape
    Short Film Series

    1976
    Riding Ring
    Man With Mirror

    1977
    Jug
    Musical Stairs
    Railings
    Soundtrack
    Cross Section

    1979
    Night Train
    Platform
    Notes

    1980
    Connemara

    1981-3
    Messages

    1986
    Salt Water

    1987
    Views From Home

    1991
    Mile End Purgatorio

    1995
    Under the Freeway

    1996
    Prelude

    1998
    Filter Beds
    Flight
    Animal Studies

    2000
    Da capo
    Rallentando
    Canon

    2003
    Three Trees
    Cycles #3
    Newsprint #2
    Tree Reflection

    2004
    Wires
    Rolling Stock (Wagons)
    filmasfilm
    bdpq
    Camden Road Station
    The Train Films

    2005
    Views from Home
    Vowels and Consonants

    2006
    Mineshaft
    Hakata
    After the Freeway
    Bay Bridge from Embarcadero

    2007
    Clock Screen
    Mobius Loops
    Abrasion Loops
    Sound Cuts

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