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This page contains general information about my work and below, a list of exhibitions
In the three drop down menus above there's information about: 1. The Retrospective area contains details on the thinking behind the layout of my current retrospective at Roseberry Studios Bath October 6th - November 5th 2023 2. The Present and the History Area contains information about my own work, and collaborations and productions I made since 1976, including Vida (1976 - 1981), Triple Vision (1981 - 1992) and Ignition Films (1999 - 2007) 3. The PhD area details academic research undertaken for a PhD under the title: On the production and consumption of moving images: An exploration of the experience of emerging digital technologies, 2007-2016. For Researchers there's also a small site called Video Art Resources with all 5 Channel 4 Video Art programmes On Video produced by Triple Vision - VIDEO ART RESOURCES is concerned with exploring the histories, theories, technologies, cultures and politics of moving image production, interaction and reception. First up: 6 TV programmes on Video Art from the 1986 row two being 1987, the last being 1989 |
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I've been exhibiting internationally since the mid-seventies. I'm an Academician at the RWA and a Fellow of the RPS. My artworks have been exhibited at many festivals worldwide winning prizes at Tokyo, Locarno and Montbeliard, Algiers and Amsterdam festivals, at galleries, Tate Britain, the National Film Theatre, the Institute of Contemporary Art, the Harris Museum in the UK - my installations have exhibited to audiences of over 1.2 million in New York at the Cathedral of St John the Divine five times. I have also been a cinematographer to artists such as Grace Jones, Annie Lennox, Queen Latifa, Van Morrison, Mariah Carey, Harry Belafonte, Sting, Kire Te Kanawa and Madonna and been a writer and director for the BBC and Channel 4 before moving into academia where I researched high resolution imaging and directed 'The Centre for Moving Image Research' at University of the West of England. I became a professor of cinematography and obtained a PhD in high resolution disciplines. My earlier documentaries have been have been broadcast on BBC, ITV Channel 4, PBS, KQED, KABC, KTTW, and French television.
There's a new collection of mine called "Diamond Beings" where one of the 6 pieces is free. If you take out an account (free) you can redeem the free piece which is part 5 Diamond Beings forming over the Takamina Desert Then click click ‘Redeem here’ .
Below is a 60 minute documentary that integrates a variety of art works "To Stand and Stare A Somerset Landscape"
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Terry Flaxton: A Life in Video Art
Roseberry Road Studios 6th October to 5th November, 28 Roseberry Rd, Bath BA2 3DX Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11am until 5pm Upcoming Exhibitions in 2024 - UK RWA Open Bristol September - December - Australia, Adelaide July, A Life in Video Art, Retrospective, July - Sedition International, Online Release, Un Tempo Una Volta, April - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & Palazzo Bembo, Exhibition titled Visions, Venice, March Between 2008 and 2023 Terry exhibited work in the China, USA, Australia, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Japan, Germany, Korea, Portugal, Iran, Turkey, Slovenia, Sweden, France, Norway, Malta, Madeira and the UK - some of these countries many times. A complete list of Exhibitions between 2008 and 2023 follows beneath the section on exhibitions beneath 1978 and 2007. EXHIBITIONS: 2023 - 2008
Exhibitions in 2023 - France/Germany, November Paris/Berlin Recontres Another Life - UK Bath October 5 weeks Roseberry Studios Retrospective of work, Various works from 50 years - Sedition International, Online Release, Diamond Beings (5 part collection) - UK Oxford October Various works, Barn Galleries Oxford - UK September Teotihuacán, The Gannon Rooms, Saxmunden - Sedition International, Online Release, September, Gold’s Love is Eternal (5 part collection) - UK August Teotihuacán, Braziers International Film Festival - UK October/December, RWA Bristol God’s Love is Eternal - Australia, Adelaide July, The Art of the Moving Image, Retrospective, July - International Online Release/Italy Visual Container, Diamond Beings Above a Dying Star - Australia, Melbourne Teotihuacán, SceneSound Melbourne, July - Italy Prehistoric, Accademia di belle arti di Napoli, April 18th, Italy - Magmart Festival Exhibitions in 2022 - USA, BlissFest333, Colorado December 17th - 19th 2022, Another Life - Australia, Melbourne, MINA festival November 2022, Another Life - Korea, Seoul Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society Presence, October - Portugal, Image Play Festival, Funchal, a selection of recent works: Arabesque, Glade, Borderless, Consumed by the Sun, O Great Mother, Barcode Jesus in a World full of Everyday Beeple, Presentiments, November 5th and 6th - Sedition International, Online Release, The Human Gaze in an Age of Quantum Entanglement, (Last 4 parts of 8 parts), November - UK Royal Society of the Arts, London, Another Life, 6th October 2022, London - UK Bristol Royal West of England Academy Open, Premier of new large-scale work: The Human Gaze in an Age of Quantum Entanglement, (8 parts) 30th September - 1st December - Sedition International, Online Release, The Human Gaze in an Age of Quantum Entanglement, (1st 4 parts of 8 parts), October 8th - Visual Container International Online Release, Visual Container TV Release of new work Diamond Beings Forming Above the Surface of A Dying Star from 23 July to 06 September - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & Palazzo Bembo, Exhibition titled Visions, Venice, Another Life, September - Australia ILCH Melbourne, Mountain Thunderstorm, International Selection, 9th September - UK Crassh Breaking the Frame Outdoor Festival Cambridge UK, To Stand and Stare: A Somerset Landscape, 30th September - Italy, Fabbrica del Vedere, Cannaregio Venice, 9th September Metamir, Parachronon, Another Life, Portraits of Cannaregio, and a series of other recent moving image art works - Sedition International, Online Release, Another Sun, 9th July - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Exhibition titled Visions, For Primo Levi, In Time of War June/July - Malta Valetta Contemporary, Malta, Exhibition titled Meta Landscapes, Another Sun, May/June - Italy Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & The Room, Venice, Exhibition titled Consciousness, Arabesque, May/June - Australia, Seensound, Melbourne, Presence, Teal House, April/May Screening & International release online - Italy, Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello & The Room, Venice, Exhibition titled Rituals: Carnival of Light, April/May - Italy, Palazzo Bembo & The Room, Venice, Exhibition titled Canvas: Another Sun, March/April - Sedition International, Online Release, Reverie of Forgotten Dreams (La Rêverie des Rêves Oubliés de l’arrière-pays) 9th March - Sedition International, Online Release, Day of the Living Dead 9th March - Iran, Tehran Experimental International Electronic Music and Image Festival, February Exhibitions in 2021 - Japan, Yokohama, Arts Cafe Presence - UK Royal West of England Academy Exhibitions in 2020 - UK Royal West of England Academy - Australia, Melbourne, Seensound - Italy Online Magmart Video Artists United - UK Online Strangleove Festival Exhibitions in 2019 - Turkey Istanbul International Festival - UK Royal West of England Academy Radiant Light - UK Bishops Palace Wells, Intersection of Dreams Exhibitions in 2018 - Slovenia, Ljubliana, Retrospective, SCCA Center for Contemporary Arts - USA Los Angeles, US, Echo Park Film Centre, To Stand and Stare: A Somerset Landscape - UK Royal West of England Academy Exhibitions in 2017 - Netherlands, Romeinse Katakomben Museum - Netherlands, Romeinse Katakomben Museum - Ireland, Dublin, Plastik Festival - USA (Oct 2016 - March 2017) The Cathedral of St John the Divine, NY The Intersection of Dreams (In Re Salvador Dali - Triptych) 2nd Visit - UK Bristol, Royal West of England Academy Exhibitions in 2016 - Italy, Florence, Presidential Palace, Diffrazione - USA, New York, Cathedral of St John the Divine, Triptych - UK, Bristol, Arnolfini, Moving Image Art: CMIR 3 Portraits of Bristol Youth - UK Bristol, Royal West of England Academy - UK Atkinson Gallery Somerset andscape Triptych Westhay, Kings Canyon, Fuertaventura - UK RWA 2016 Bristol Reimagining Venice (Mosaic Triptych) - UK Bristol CMIR: TWO, CentreSpace Bristol Barcode Jesus in a Material World EXHIBITIONS IN 2015 - USA In parallel and opening at the same time, The Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, Triptych, The Intersection of Dreams (In Re Salvador Dali) 1st Visit - UK In parallel: Bristol Cathedral, The Bristol Triptych: The Intersection of Dreams (In Re Salvador Dali) - UK CMIR:ONE: UWE Arnolfni Portraits of Bristol Youth - UK Strode Cinema, To Stand And Stare: An English Landscape ideas of place and space and the notion of ‘truth’ in documentary early iteration - USA The Cathedral of St John the Divine In Other People’s Skins (2nd visit) New York EXHIBITIONS IN 2014 - UK Bristol Cathedral Reflection on Water (for a visit by the Archbishop of Canterbury) - UK Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Reflection on Water, The Sum of Hands EXHIBITIONS IN 2013 - UK Royal West of England Academy, Bristol Triptych: Portraits or the Youth of Bristol; In Other People’s Skins; Triptych: Portraits of Beijing, New York, Venice; In Re Ansel Adams - UK Harris Museum, Preston (2012 - 2013) In Re Ansel Adams, Accessioned and in the collection to be exhibited at various moments in perpetuity EXHIBITIONS IN 2012 - Italy Milan Triennale, Milan Museum of Design In Other People’s Skins - UK Bristol An English Landscape 70 min, ideas of place and space and the notion of ‘truth’ in documentary (Watershed) - UK Bath High Res Portraiture within low resolution Photoframe display forms Corsham Court, Conference Exploring Transmedia Writing & Digital Creativity, Bath Spa University, July 2012 - UK London Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Prisoners - UK, Somerset, Black Swan Gallery, Frome, Somerset Portraits of the Working People of Somerset, - UK LUX Online Making News Part of ‘Broadcast Exhibitions EXHIBITIONS IN 2011 - UK Bath Museum of Work Portraits of the Working People of Somerset, August/September - UK South London Gallery, Curated by Lux, Prisoners EXHIBITIONS IN 2010 - USA In Other People's Skins, The Cathedral of St John the Divine, New York, - France, Museum of Modern Art Strasbourg, Retrospective of works - USA New York Center, Millennium Magazine Portraits of CannaregioJ - Japan, Yokohama Creativity City Center, Retrospective of works - UK Glastonbury Abbey, Somerset, 07/10/11-22/01/12 Portraits of the Working People of Somerset - Sweden Vasteras Cathedral In Other People's Skins - UK Walcott Gallery, Bath, In Other People's Skins - China Xi'an Academy of Fine Art In Other People's Skins - UK Retrospective, Salisbury Arts Centre, Research Works from AHRC Fellowship, (including first iteration of Myth and Meaning in the Digital Age ) One Person Show of research works from AHRC Fellowship, Salisbury Arts Center - UK Major Retrospective Time and Resolution: Experiments with High Resolution Imaging, P3 Gallery, London (University of Westminster) Summative Exhibition of 1st AHRC Fellowship P3 Gallery, London (University of Westminster) http://www.visualfields.co.uk/P3exhibition.m4v This was the cumulative exhibition of the AHRC Fellowship and was held in collaboration with University of Westminster. The artefacts and research were highlighted for the Westminster CREAM research group at their Research Away-day. During this exhibition Academics were also approached to discuss issues around the methodology of practice as research EXHIBITIONS IN 2009 - Norway - Bergen Elektronisk Kunst Senter, Screening of Research work, - Italy, Rome Retrospective Rome Film Festival - Italy, Milan InVideo Festival - Italy, Milan Fabricca del Vappore, In Other People's Skins http://www.bestup.it/new/images/stories/home/Comunicato_FDV_inglese.pdf - UK Southwell Minster In Other People's Skins, Southwell Minster - UK The Phoenix Arts Center, Glastonbury, In Other People's Skins - UK Gallery 204, Bristol, Imaginists - work from Venice, - UK The Phoenix Arts Center Glastonbury, 2009. http://www.visualfields.co.uk/imaginiststalking.htm EXHIBITIONS IN 2008 - Malta St James Cavalier Center for the Arts, In Other People's Skins http://www.visualfields.co.uk/indexArt2.htm - UK Phoenix Arts Centre, Glastonbury, The Dinner Party - UK Bristol Gallery 204 - In Re Ansel Adams, Gallery 204, Bristol, 26/09/08-27/09/08 - Italy Venice - Scarabocchio Studio Grafico, Cannaregio, Ponte degli Ormensini, Venice, Un Tempo Una Volta (Once Upon a Time), plus Ritratti di Cannaregio (Portraits of Cannaregio), SeptemberUK Wickham Theatre University of Bristol A series of 4 HD installations over four days, - UK Wickham Theatre University of Bristol A series of 4 HD installations over three days - UK Cathedral Tour of In Other People's Skins including: Worcester, Gloucester, Southwark, Winchester, Wells, Bristol, Bath Abbey EXHIBITIONS Between 1978 - 2007
In 1978, the Fashion show, (made in 1977) was exhibited at the Long Beach Museum by Kathy Rae Huffman, the then curator of moving image work. Next came the Fourth Tokyo Video Festival where Flaxton, Cooper and Dedman's piece (written by Flaxton) Talking Heads, won a prize. From then on Flaxton's work was shown at many festivals, notably the Worldwide Video Festival in Den Haag, Netherlands, but many, many other places including Moscow, Tokyo, Algiers, San Francisco, Locarno, Montbeliard, Paris, Milan, Rome, Seoul, Amsterdam - and many other places around the world. In 1986 the British Film Institute as well as Channel 4 asked Flaxton to Shoot “Out off Order” the 3rd electronically produced and released on 35mm ‘film’ in history (after “Harlow” starring Ginger Rogers, 1965 and 200 Hotels, 1972). Though travelling as a cinematographer and occasionally exhibiting between 1992 and 1998 there was a hiatus in Flaxton's work between Zagorsk (1992 and Skin Deep (1999) Flaxton in fact worked on many artists pieces and brought a high level of lighting to many people's work. Having come across HD in 1990, between 2000 and 2007 Flaxton concentrated on HD as a developing production form and tested cameras for Panasonic and Sony and by 1999 he had shot an HD work in the US which was mastered as a 35mm output at Du Art Labs in New York - and from then on spoke at many seminars including the NFT to speak about the transition form Standard Definition (720 x 576 pixels) to the then low level HD Standards of 1280 x 720, the faux HD of 1440 x 1920 and finally the full 1920 x 1080 standard that we all know today (2023). So in eventually entering academia in 2007 with an AHRC Creative Research Fellowship - where the candidates charge was to discover how technical and creative innovations feed upon each other, Flaxton then began a second wave of production as an artist - where, having spent many years on moving camera cranes and dollies - Flaxton chose to use HD and the camera itself as a window, a portal on, not only the world - but importantly on the very thing that looks: the self. By 2015 Sedition Art had arrived and was a perfect fit for what Flaxton later called his 'Chamber Works’. Flaxton also began producing long form moving image artworks during this period characterised by “Myth and Meaning in the Digital Age” (began in 1992 and finished in 2018) , “To Sand and Stare: A Somerset Landscape” (2011 to 2018) and latterly “Mexico: Landscape of the Heart” (2023). 
Latest Retrospective - Bath 2023:
Terry Flaxton: A Life in Video Art Roseberry Road Studios From 6th October through to 5th November 2023 28 Roseberry Rd, Bath BA2 3DX |