when the eelgrass left, 2023
Single-channel digital video installation, 16mm black & white transfer, sound, duration: 8min 20sec looped.
Fluctuating between material record and poetic narrative, the film presents traditions of archival filmmaking, marked with traits of rediscovered film stock, achieved through the hand-processing and gentle composition of footage circumscribed by the sounds of the East Mersea foreshore, punctuated with resolute footsteps of the filmmaker, a quiet reminder of the presence of people on the foreshore, and their traces.
Single-channel digital video installation, 16mm black & white transfer, sound, duration: 8min 20sec looped.
Fluctuating between material record and poetic narrative, the film presents traditions of archival filmmaking, marked with traits of rediscovered film stock, achieved through the hand-processing and gentle composition of footage circumscribed by the sounds of the East Mersea foreshore, punctuated with resolute footsteps of the filmmaker, a quiet reminder of the presence of people on the foreshore, and their traces.
Tim Tokley, when the eelgrass left. 2023.
Tim Tokley, when the eelgrass left. 2023.
The film is a meditation on the temporary land revealed at low tide: The foreshore, only exposed for fragments of a day, untouched and perilous, is adorned with incandescent ripples of protruding oyster shells.
Tim Tokley, when the eelgrass left. 2023.
On show as part of the Department of Art Postgraduate Degree Shows 20-25 July 2023 in Laurie Grove Baths Small Pool, Goldsmiths University of London.
Tim Tokley, when the eelgrass left, 2023. Installation view, Goldsmiths University of London. Photo: Christian Kingo.
Tim Tokley, when the eelgrass left, 2023. Copper panel etched using the sea from Mersea Island.
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, 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.
First shown as part of the Folded Eight Times exhibition at APT Gallery, March 2023
First shown as part of the Folded Eight Times exhibition at APT Gallery, March 2023
Related exhibitions & events:
Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023
Group Exhibition: Folded Eight Times, A.P.T Gallery 30 March - 2 April 2023
Postgraduate Degree Shows: Goldsmiths, University of London, 20-25 July 2023