About
People and place are at the core of our individual and shared practices. Still/Moving is a platform for creative activities and projects to develop.
Here or there does not matter
We must be still and still moving
Into another intensity
For a further union, a deeper communion
Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.
T. S. Eliot, "East Coker," from The Four Quartets
Still/Moving is composed of three artists, Laura Hopes, Martin Hampton and Léonie Hampton, who met when they were 13. Living in Devon, UK, their collective practice aims to create social and environmental change through questioning established modes of thinking and behaviour. Projects are developed through a process of collaborative and participatory dialogue and activity between each other and with partner communities. Inspired by the artist Louise Bourgeois who said ‘It is not about the medium, it is about what you are trying to say’, their work emerges in diverse forms, including sculpture, film, photography, performance, installation, the spoken and printed word.
Léonie has an internationally acclaimed fine art practice. She studied Art history specialising in contemporary European and American art and is a part time tutor of MA Photography at LCC London. Martin is an award-winning filmmaker and co-founded Squint/Opera with architect Will Alsop. He studied Architecture at the Bartlett, UCL; specialising in speculative designs for extreme locations such as the moon and intertidal zones. Laura is an artist and researcher whose PhD project focused upon the relationship between climate change and colonisation.
Still/Moving was originally set up for workshops and in-conversations with internationally acclaimed artists. Speedwell is their first major project since incorporating as Still/Moving Projects CIC in 2019.
Still/Moving CV
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AWARDS |
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2018 |
Plymouth Culture Arts grant for Speedwell, a Mayflower 400 commission |
UK |
2018 |
Arts Council England grant for Speedwell, a Mayflower 400 commission |
UK |
2020 |
The Box's 'State of Emergency' micro commission https://www.theboxplymouth.com/state-of-emergency-micro-commissions/still-moving |
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INSTALLATIONS / EXHIBITIONS |
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2020 |
Speedwell: NO NEW WORLDS, Mount Batten breakwater, Plymouth https://stillmoving.org/projects/speedwell |
UK |
2020 |
hold me installation as part of the Plymouth Art weekender https://stillmoving.org/projects/hold-me |
UK |
2020 |
The Box's 'State of Emergency’ Online exhibition https://www.theboxplymouth.com/state-of-emergency-micro-commissions/still-moving |
UK |
Léonie Hampton
www.leoniehampton.com |
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leonie@stillmoving.org |
Léonie’s practice has continued a reflection on trauma. From personal to collective trauma, her aim is to shine light into darknesses both present and historical that must not remain hidden, shamed and stigmatised. She is searching for ways to heal from the personal and worldwide traumas our species have inflicted on themselves, the land and the more-than-human species with whom we share this earth.
After graduating in Art History at University College London and SOAS in 2000, specialising in contemporary European and American art, she continued her studies in Photography at the London College of Communication where she now works as a Part-Time tutor of MA Photography.
Recognising the value of the multiple voice, she became a founding member of the art collective Still/Moving. www.stillmoving.org Originally set up for photography workshops, their collective practice aims to create social and environmental change through questioning established modes of thinking and behaviour. Projects are developed through a process of collaborative and participatory dialogue and activity between each other and with partner communities. Inspired by the artist Louise Bourgeois who said ‘It is not about the medium, it is about what you are trying to say’, their work emerges in diverse forms, including sculpture, film, photography, performance, installation, the spoken and printed word.
Léonie's work has won numerous awards. She has exhibited in solo and group shows including the U.K. France, The Netherlands, Scandinavia, Austria, Italy and Canada and has been exhibited and collected by Museums such as the MNAM – Centre Pompidou (Paris) MACRO- Museum of Contemporary Art (Rome), Palazzo delle Esposizioni (Rome) MEP Maison Européenne de la Photographie (Paris) Successive projects have been funded by The Arts Council, Wellcome Trust and the British Council. In 2011, her award-winning 184-page book In the shadow of things was published by Contrasto (Italy)
Alongside her work within Still/Moving she is currently working on an Arts Council England funded film project Islands of Women, due to be shown as part of a Rose Gibbs curation at the Whitechapel Gallery London, in 2021. In July 2020 she was commissioned by RAMM in Exeter to make a new Photographic body of work- A Language of Seeds, due to be exhibited in February 2021, opening after Lockdown.
AWARDS |
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2020 |
Commissioned by RAMM (Exeter) for A Language of Seeds, exhibition in 2021 |
2019 |
Arts Council England grant for Islands of Women film project |
2019 |
Nominated for a Prix Pictet Award. Geneva, Switzerland |
2018 |
Awarded a Plymouth Culture Arts grant for Speedwell |
2018 |
Awarded an Arts Council England grant for Speedwell |
2017 |
XV Edizione della Commissione. Roma, Italy |
2015 |
Nominated for a Prix Pictet Award. Geneva, Switzerland |
2012 |
Awarded a Wellcome Trust Small Arts Grant. London, UK |
2011 |
In the shadow of things nominated for the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. London, UK |
2010 |
Winner of the Prix Montblanc. L'Insense. France |
2009 |
Winner of the Foam KLM Paul Huf Award. Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2008 |
Winner of the F Award. Milano, Italy |
2008 |
Inge Morath Award Finalist. USA |
2007 |
Winner of the Arts Foundation Fellowship for Photography. London, UK |
2007 |
Selected by the Magenta Foundation for publication. Toronto, Canada |
2006 |
Selected for the Joop Swart World Press Masterclass. Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2005 |
Awarded 15-month scholarship at Fabrica Italy, by the Benetton Group to collaborate on the Les Yeux Ouvert exhibition at Centre Pompidou in Paris. Treviso, Italy |
2004 |
Winner of a Jerwood Photography Award. London, UK |
2004 |
Selected as one of the 30 Emerging Photographers by Photo District News. New York, USA |
2003 |
Winner of the Ian Parry Memorial Scholarship. London, UK |
2003 |
Winner of the Tom Webster Award. London, UK |
2003 |
Winner of the Metro Bursary Award. London, UK |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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2018 |
Mend, Italian Cultural Institute. Curated by Marco Delogu. London, UK |
2017 |
Mend, MACRO (Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma). Curated by Marco Delogu and Flavio Scollo. Roma, Italy |
2017 |
An archive in your pocket, Cinema Rediscovered, Watershed. Curated by Mady Probst. Bristol, UK |
2012 |
Anger, Tenderness and Joy, Galerie Kahmann. Amsterdam, NL |
2011 |
In the shadow of things, Fondazione Forma. Curated by Alessandra Mauro. Milan, Italy |
2009 |
In the shadow of things, Foam (Fotografiemuseum) Curated by Colette Olof. Amsterdam, Netherlands |
2007 |
In the shadow of things, Palazzo delle Esposizioni. Curated by Marco Delogu. Roma, Italy |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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2019 |
Mend as part of forthcoming group show about The Rome commission at the Museum of Rome, in April. |
2019 |
Who’s looking at the family, now? Photo50, London Art Fair. Curated by Tim Clarke |
2018 |
Eternal City. The Photographic collection of The Royal Institute of British Architects. Curated by Marco Luliano and Valaria Carullo. Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II, Gabriella Musto, Roma, Italy. |
2018 |
A New Beginning, Protein Studios. Curated by Rebecca McClelland and Breaking Barriers. London, UK |
2017 |
UPTONOW: Fabrica Photography. Landskrona festival. Scandinavia |
2017 |
UPTONOW: Fabrica photography. Fotografia Europea festival. Reggio Emilia, Italy |
2016 |
In the shadow (Ap), iDocs, Watershed. Curated by Judith Aston and Mandy Rose. Bristol UK |
2015 |
Way we live / Wie wir Leben, KUNST HAUS WIEN. Curated by Verena Kaspar Eisern and Charlotte Desaga. Vienna, Austria |
2015 |
In the shadow (Ap) The Rooms. Bristol UK |
2014 |
Slideshow - In the shadow of things. Landskrona festival, curated by Engstrom. Scandinavia |
2014 |
In the shadow (Ap), iDocs. Curated by Judith Aston and Mandy Rose. Bristol, UK |
2014 |
In the shadow (Ap), Encounters Film Festival. Curated by Rich Warren. Bristol, UK |
2013 |
Festival of Photography, MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma) Curated by Marco Delogu. Rome, Italy |
2012 |
Hijacked 111. QUAD gallery, Format Photography festival. Curated by Louise Clements. Derby, UK |
2012 |
Firecracker. Curated by Fiona Rogers. London, UK |
2012 |
Magenta show, Toronto Book Fair. Toronto, Canada |
2012 |
Fishbar. Curated by Olivia Arthur and Philipp Ebeling. London, UK |
2011 |
Paris Foto (Galerie Kahmann, Amsterdam). Paris, France |
2009 |
6x6 Women, Studio La Citta. Curated by Enrico Bossan and Maria Rosa Sossai. Verona, Italy |
2009 |
Just around the corner Capalbio Fotografia. Curated by Marco Delogu, Capalbio, Italy |
2008 |
Artissima (Galleria VM21, Rome). Turin, Italy |
2008 |
Views in collaboration with Emma Macfarlane. Shunt Arches. London, UK |
2006 |
London Stories. Curated by Robin Maddock. Shoreditch Town Hall. London, UK |
2005 |
Les Yeux Ouvert. Centre Pompidou. Paris, France |
2004 |
Jerwood Photography Award. Open Eye Gallery. Liverpool, UK |
2003 |
Jerwood Photography Award (Escape in Israel) Jerwood Space, London, UK |
2003 |
The Ian Parry Award. Curated by Rebecca McClelland. Camera Press. London, UK |
Laura Hopes
www.laurahopes.com |
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laura@stillmoving.org |
Laura Hopes has recently been awarded an Artistic Practice Research AHRC-funded PhD with the University of Plymouth entitled Being Vulnerable: Distances of the Sublime Anthropocene. Her research project focuses upon the relationship between climate change and colonisation. She explores a methodology built around the idea of the ‘vulnerable practitioner’, focusing upon a process of decolonising the Anthropocene. Drawing from existing and historic modes of knowledge; open to failure; seeking collaboration and acceptant of unknowns; her practice has become a much slower, lengthier process, where assumptions are constantly challenged - obstacles to be unpicked. Through extensive collaboration within the collective Still/Moving and with academics and experts in diverse fields, her expanded practice encompasses writing, conversations, film, performance, installation and multi-disciplinary exchange.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS |
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2020 |
Speedwell installation, Mayflower 400 commission. Plymouth, UK |
2020 |
And the Crowd Goes Wild publication and film screening. B-Side Festival. Portland, UK |
2019 |
Otolith installation, AiR commission. National Marine Aquarium. Plymouth, UK |
2019 |
Lacuna, Unbounded Exhibition. Eden Project. Cornwall, UK |
2019 |
Ruins: Theorem exhibition and symposium. Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin. Cambridge, UK |
2019 |
Performance commission, Surrender! (Part 2) with Preston Street Union. Exeter, UK |
2018 |
Not to be Taken, Sluice Exchange at the Kühlhaus. Berlin, Germany |
2018 |
Marginalia, Ingenious Soil, Being Human Festival commission. Exeter, UK |
2018 |
And the Crowd Goes Wild sound installation, B-Side commission. Portland, UK |
2018 |
Performance commission, Surrender! with Preston Street Union. Exeter, UK |
2018 |
Crazywell, Od Festival, UK |
2018 |
Not to be Taken, Mount Florida x PAC home screening. CAA. Glasgow, UK |
2018 |
Vertex+Reflex, Artistic Research Will Eat Itself Exhibition. KARST. Plymouth, UK |
2017 |
Performance of Crazywell, PEP Postgraduate Conference, On the Moors. Dartmoor, UK. |
2017 |
Tank screening, Liquid. AQB. Budapest, Hungary |
2016 |
Lacuna screening, Inland Festival. Future Project. Redruth, UK |
2016 |
Lacuna installation, The Weather Station Part II. B-Side Festival. Dorset, UK |
2016 |
Tank screening, Liquid, Fringe Arts Bath. Artspace 101. Plymouth, UK |
2015 |
Ghost Stream, What were you looking for? Armada Way. Plymouth, UK |
2015 |
Cargo: The Island, Lasalle College of the Arts. Singapore |
2015 |
Miasma sculpture commission, Above, Hamilton House. Bristol, UK |
2015 |
Unheimlich collages: For Collage, Print House Gallery, London |
2014 |
Walking the Line, Plymouth Arts Centre. Plymouth, UK |
2014 |
Source, Bornshorts Film Festival, Experimental Film Category. Denmark |
2014 |
Cinematik Piestany Film Festival, Short Films Category. Slovakia |
2014 |
Bodies of Water film screening, Royal West of England Academy. Bristol, UK |
2013 |
Ghost Stream installation Art at Yarner, Yarner Woods. Bovey Tracey, UK |
SELECTED COMMISSIONS, PAPERS, EVENTS |
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2020 |
And the Crowd Goes Wild - HLF funded publication and film, B-Side. Portland, UK |
2020 |
CSNI artist presentation, Borough Art Gallery, University of the South Bank. London, UK |
2020 |
Marginalia: Performance Lecture; Unbounded talk, Porthmeor Studios. St Ives, UK |
2020 |
Ruins paper, Theorem Publication, Cambridge School of Art, Anglia Ruskin. Cambridge, UK |
2020 |
Vertex+Reflex paper, Hybrid Labs Publication, Aalto University. Helsinki, Finland |
2019-20 |
Artist in Residence: National Marine Aquarium, Plymouth, UK |
2019 |
Surrender! (Part 2) PSU commission, Exeter, UK |
2019 |
Marginalia paper, Land/Water Conference, University of Plymouth, UK |
2019 |
Vertex+Reflex paper, University of Aalto Hybrid Labs Publication, Finland |
2018 |
Pattern, Open Theatre Practice, Dublin, Eire. Funded by Arts Council Ireland |
2018 |
Exeter Phoenix artist talk. Exeter, UK |
2018 |
Ingenious Soil film screening, talk and soil workshop, Being Human Festival. Exeter, UK |
2018 |
Poetic Places Workshop, Being Human. University of Exeter, UK |
2018 |
Assistant Producer, Take A Part Social Making Symposium. UK |
2018 |
Vertex+Reflex paper presented, Hybrid Labs, University of Aalto. Helsinki, Finland |
Martin Hampton
www.martinhampton.com (documentary film) www.squintopera.com (architectural animation) www.not-applicable.org (music + image improvisations) |
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martin@stillmoving.org |
Martin Hampton studied Architecture at the Bartlett, UCL. Specialising in speculative designs in extreme locations, he designed an architecture for the moon, and imagined floating structures for tidal zones that would reconfigure themselves twice a day.
He co-founded Squint/Opera with architect Will Alsop, a production studio that uses film to communicate radical architectural ideas. One of their first films, Picture a City, was acquired by MOMA New York jointly by the film and architecture departments.
Since 2006 Martin has worked independently as a director, making films about artists for Tate, Christies, and Whitechapel Art Gallery, bringing together his interest in challenging art with a desire to communicate. This has led to inspiring encounters with world renowned artists such as Gerhard Richter, Nan Goldin and William Klein. In 2008, in a move towards documentary filmmaking, he completed an MA in Visual Anthropology at Goldsmiths College London, and his graduation film Possessed won support from the British Council and awards at several international film festivals including Emir Kusturica’s Kustendorf Film Festival. In tandem with his client-based work, Martin maintains an independent film practice. Projects include Gentle Oblivion, a long term investigation of his sister’s experience of Alzheimer’s Disease, and DreamWalking, a film about the Japanese photographer Rinko Kawauchi.
Still/Moving provides an opportunity for Martin to bring together his diverse interests and skills, whereby the lived experience of a structure and its form are conceived as a dynamic whole.
SELECTED FILM WORK, EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS |
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2019 |
Incorporated Still/Moving Projects as a CIC |
2018 |
Commissioned by Mayflower 400 for Project Speedwell / (NO) NEW WORLDS. Mayflower 2020. Received ACE funding for project. |
2017 |
Collaborated as DP on 3 films with artist Laura Hopes. Lacuna: the colour of distance, Crazywell and Not to Be Taken |
2015 |
Mentoring young filmmakers for Channel Four’s RANDOM ACTS strand’s North East project in collaboration with Tyneside Cinema’s outreach scheme |
2015 |
Directed and produced Dreamwalking, documentary about photographer Rinko Kawauchi for Austrian Museum Kunst Haus Vienna |
2015 |
Produced photography workshop for Still/Moving with photographer Rinko Kawauchi with Kunst Haus Vienna |
2014 |
Directed and filmed NAN GOLDIN Tateshot for Tate Media |
2014 |
Directed and produced Swarovski Whitechapel ART ICON Award film for Whitechapel Gallery |
2013 |
Director of Photography: “Shooting Ourselves”, independent feature documentary produced by Substans Film |
2012~ |
Directed artist portrait films for Tate, Christies, Whitechapel Gallery, Leighton House Museum |
2011 |
Directed and filmed GERHARD RICHTER: PANORAMA Tate Media. |
2009 |
MICROSOFT BABIES: Directed, produced and filmed 8 x Three Minute Wonders for Channel 4 with Yipp Films. |
2008 |
Possessed selected by British Council for Short Film Support Fund |
2005 |
Squint/Opera film Picture a City exhibited in the Groundswell Exhibition at MOMA, New York. Subsequently acquired for permanent collection |
2001 |
Formed Squint/Opera film production company |
At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless;
Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is,
But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity,
Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards,
Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point,
There would be no dance, and there is only the dance.
T. S. Eliot
Burnt Norton from The Four Quartets