Trevor Appleson at The Stanley Picker Gallery
Trevor Appleson at The Stanley Picker Gallery
Muybridge in Kingston Contemporary Commissions
Trevor Appleson: 18 Sept - 13 Nov 2010
Eadweard Muybridge (Kingston upon Thames 1830-1904) was one of the World's most innovative and influential photographic pioneers, whose extensive studies of humans and animals in motion laid the cornerstones for the invention of cinema and continue to inspire us to this day.
Muybridge's groundbreaking work remains a key inspiration to practitioners across an array of interdisciplinary fields. As a key element of Muybridge in Kingston, the Stanley Picker Gallery is celebrating his lifetime's achievements through the eyes of two contemporary artists who have been given privileged access to rare material held at the
Trevor Appleson has created ambitious new moving-image and photographic works inspired by Muybridge's famous collotype sequences of human figures. As part of a residency at The London Contemporary Dance School, the artist has invited dancers to reinterpret gestures and actions that relate to the various visual narratives that Muybridge himself built into his original motion studies.
Taking inspiration from ambiguities in his life-story, artist Becky Beasley presents an installation of new works that reflect upon the end of Muybridge's life after his truly epic experiences in the American West. Beasley has attempted to trace an origin to a myth that, at the time of his death, Muybridge was constructing a scale model of the American Great Lakes in his back garden in
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