Tim Tokley, Cumber-Gut, 2023, 16mm transferred to digital video, Copper.
Cumber-Gut (2023) fluctuates between material record and poetic narrative, an abridgement of East Mersea. The work is grounded in ecological and anthropological inquiry, employing voices of the Island and reflections on its changing landscapes. Cumber-Gut is a meditation on the temporary land revealed at low tide: The foreshore, only exposed for fragments of a day, untouched and perilous, is punctuated with incandescent ripples of protruding oyster shells.
Tim Tokley is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher with a practice concerned with literary influence within contemporary artist filmmaking, the notion of art as a record and the development of professional research, which informs an ongoing interest in pedagogy. His current work explores the narratives of places and people contextualised by modern history and literature. Most recently, the foreshore of Mersea Island, which is found in the artist's home county of Essex. The landscape is examined using 16mm film, focusing on ecological changes and the enduring relationship between humans and oyster shells.
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Tim Tokley is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher with a practice concerned with literary influence within contemporary artist filmmaking, the notion of art as a record and the development of professional research, which informs an ongoing interest in pedagogy. His current work explores the narratives of places and people contextualised by modern history and literature. Most recently, the foreshore of Mersea Island, which is found in the artist's home county of Essex. The landscape is examined using 16mm film, focusing on ecological changes and the enduring relationship between humans and oyster shells.
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Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 20-25 July 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London New Cross SE14, 20-25 July 2023