Emily Richardson

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Emily Richardson’s films explore landscapes and environments to reveal the way that activity, movement and light is inscribed in place. Traversing an extraordinarily diverse range of landscapes including empty East End streets, forests, North Sea oil fields, post-war tower blocks and Cold War military facilities Richardson’s films offer a dazzling deconstruction of place and time. They focus the mind and eye to detail, finding transcendence and emotion in the everyday. — Ben Cook, Lux

Richardson’s films have been shown in galleries and at festivals internationally including The Wapping Project, London (2011), Arprojx Cinema at The Armory Show, New York (2011), FACT, Liverpool (2011), Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London (2009), Danielle Arnaud, London (2009), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. (2007), Uppsala Museum, Sweden (2007), Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (2007) and Venice, Edinburgh, London, Rotterdam and New York Film Festivals. She was awarded the Gilles Dusein Prize, Paris, 2009 in recognition of her films.

Education

1994–96 San Francisco Art Institute, CA. MFA Filmmaking

1990–93 Middlesex University, London. BA(Hons) Fine Art.

1992 Cooper Union School of Art, New York. Exchange program.

Selected Exhibitions / Screenings

2012

  • Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (Aspect)
  • Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden. The Machine and Human Movement (Redshift)

2011

  • The Wapping Project, London. Undiscovered Landscapes (Memo Mori, Petrolia)
  • Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank. Futurology, Iain Sinclair, screening Memo Mori, readings Ghost Milk
  • The Golden Machine, A barge tour of the Olympic Park with Iain Sinclair and film, Memo Mori by Emily Richardson.
  • Floating Cinema: Hereabouts; Now and Then, Old Ford Locks, Dace Rd, Hackney Wick. E3 2NN (Memo Mori)
  • The Transit Cinema, Hackney Wick and Fish Island (Memo Mori)
  • Parc de la Villette, Paris (Nocturne)
  • HMVCurzon, Wimbledon. Moving Image South: Emily Richardson (selection of films)
  • Artprojx Cinema at The Armory Show / VoltaNY, New York (Petrolia)
  • Die Nacht, La Nuit 107, Arte TV, France (selection of films)
  • FACT, Liverpool (The Cinema Series)
  • Gothenburg International Film Festival, Sweden (Nocturne)

2010

  • The Echo of Light, Seine-Maritime, Rouen, France (Aspect)
  • La Caixa, Barcelona (Memo Mori, Cobra Mist)
  • Lands End, Shedhalle, Zurich (Petrolia)
  • The Lightbox Gallery, Woking (Cobra Mist)
  • London Film Festival. (The Futurist)
  • Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti selection (The Futurist)
  • Peninsula Arts, Plymouth (selection of films)
  • New British Film Festival, Moscow (The Futurist)
  • Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (Redshift)
  • The Magic Lantern, Glasgow (Memo Mori)
  • Impressions Gallery, Bradford (Memo Mori , Aspect)
  • Market Gallery, Glasgow (Nocturne)
  • ArchNoise, Christ Church, Spitalfields, London (Block)
  • Cinema du Reel, Pompidou Centre, Paris (Memo Mori)
  • La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Cobra Mist)
  • Jerwood Space, London (Aspect, Cobra Mist)
  • An English Journey, Re-imagined, Snape Maltings, Suffolk (Cobra Mist)

2009

  • Animation Breakdown, Tate Modern (Nocturne, Cobra Mist)
  • Hackney, That Red Rose Empire. Danielle Arnaud, London (Memo Mori)
  • Britspotting, Berlin (Cobra Mist)
  • DocumentART, Germany/ Poland (Cobra Mist)
  • Electric Cinema, Hastings (Cobra Mist)
  • InVideo, Milan (Cobra Mist)
  • Experimental Film and Video Festival, Seoul (Cobra Mist)
  • Melbourne International Film Festival (Cobra Mist)
  • Axonobuild, Site Gallery, Sheffield (Block)
  • Hackney, That Red Rose Empire, British Library, London (Memo mori)
  • DocumentART, Germany (Cobra Mist)
  • Mad Cat Film Festival, San Francisco (Cobra Mist)
  • Melbourne International Film Festival (Cobra Mist)
  • East End Film Festival, Rio Cinema, London (Block, Transit, Memo mori)
  • Coutisane Festival, Gent (Cobra Mist)
  • Evolution, Leeds (Cobra Mist)
  • Ann Arbour Film Festival, USA (Cobra Mist)
  • Rotterdam Film Festival, Netherlands (Cobra Mist)
  • Clermont Ferrand Festival, France (Cobra Mist)

2008

  • Figuring Landscapes, touring exhibition curated by Catherine Elwes and Steven Ball. (Petrolia)
  • Tate Modern, London Animate Projects (Cobra Mist)
  • Curzon Soho, London. Vertigo launch curated by Gareth Evans (Cobra Mist)
  • Café Oto, London. DVD launch with live performances by Chris Watson and Benedict Drew (Cobra Mist)
  • Encounters, Bristol (Cobra Mist)
  • FACT, Liverpool. Animate Projects (Cobra Mist)
  • Aurora Festival, Norwich (Cobra Mist)
  • Silo, Institut National d’Histoire de l’art, Paris (Aspect)
  • La Casa Encendida, Madrid (Block)
  • Edinburgh Filmhouse. (Aspect)
  • Arnolfini, Bristol. Night, A Time Between (Nocturne)
  • NGBK, Berlin. Nature on Film, curated by Maxa Zoller (Redshift)
  • Unit 5, Aurora, Norwich. (Cobra Mist)

2007

  • Landschaft, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. (Aspect)
  • Constructions of Nature, Uppsala Museum, Sweden. (Redshift)
  • Our Space, OVADA, Oxford. (Redshift, Nocturne, Aspect, Block, Petrolia)
  • ‘Theatrum Mundi: performance architecture’, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland. (Petrolia)
  • NFT, BFI, London. The Nature of Our Looking, curated by Mark Webber (Redshift)
  • Curzon Soho, London. Night Haunts, Sukhdev Sandhu (Nocturne)
  • Renoir, London. Ah, Butterfly, curated by Gareth Evans with Iain Sinclair (Transit)
  • Disappearing London, The Butterfly House, London (Nocturne)

2006

  • Transit, West Smithfield, London, curated by Measure. (Transit)
  • Screenland, Whitstable Museum, Kent. (Petrolia)
  • New York Film Festival (Block)
  • Cine Lumiere, London Interval, curated by Steven Eastwood (Block)
  • Rotterdam International Film Festival (Block)

2005

  • REAP, Cafe Gallery Projects, London. curated by Anne Bean. (Block)
  • Les Merveilles du Monde, Dunkerque Museum of Fine Arts, curated by Peter Fillingham
  • 6000 miles, The Lighthouse Museum, Glasgow. (Petrolia)
  • London Film Festival Tour, Experimenta. UK tour including ICA, London, FACT, Liverpool,
  • Arnolfini, Bristol, Side Cinema, Newcastle and Edinburgh Filmhouse. (Aspect)
  • Sonar, Experimental music and film, Barcelona, Spain (Aspect)
  • European Media Art Featival, Osnabruck, Germany (Aspect)
  • Ann Arbour Film Festival, USA. (honourable mention) (Aspect)

2004

  • Time Frames book launch, screening of Aspect , Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
  • View Points, Film Museum, Vienna, curated by Andrea Pollach. (Aspect)
  • Open-air screening in Kings Wood, Stour Valley Arts, Kent. (Aspect)
  • London Film Festival, National Film Theatre, London (Aspect)
  • New York Film Festival, Walter Reade Theatre, New York (Aspect)

2003

  • A Century of Artists Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London, curated by David Curtis. (Redshift)
  • Sprite Musketeer mobile gallery, Manchester. (Nocturne, Redshift)

Publications / articles

  • The City and the Moving Image, Urban Projections, Edited by Richard Koeck and Les Roberts
  • Towards (East) London 2012: Emily Richardson’s Transit (2006) and Memo Mori (2009), and the work of Iain Sinclair by Paul Newland. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
  • Figuring Landscapes, Devised by Catherine Elwes and Steven Ball. 2009
  • The Cultural Construction of London’s East End, Paul Newland, 2008
  • 6000 Miles, Lighthouse Museum, Glasgow, 2005 Exhibition catalogue
  • Kings Wood, A Context, Stour Valley Arts 2005
  • Time Frames, Emily Richardson. Stour Valley Arts, 2004
  • Observer, Sunday 5 Apr 2009. Cold War Kid
  • Time Out Feb 24 – Mar 4 2009, Emily Richardson Films, DVD review
  • Grafik, May 2009
  • Vertigo, Vol.4 No1 Autumn/Winter 2008
  • Dazed and Confused, Sept 2008

Prizes

  • Winner Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris 2009
  • Nominated for Jarman Award, London 2009
  • Nominated for Becks Futures, London 2006

Residencies

  • FACT, Liverpool. Artist in residence. Summer 2010
  • Stour Valley Arts, Kent. Artist in residence. 2003–2004

Contact

emily.rich@mac.com