Selection of Artworks

It was during my Masters degree at UAL in 2009 where I developed my love of experimental filmmaking and since then I have been applying that to audiovisual pieces, projection mapping and installation based work. It led me to creating video designs and operating live visuals, which in turn then led me to vision mixing for broadcast and I have been balancing my very varied interests in video ever since.

This is a short selection of documentation from film screenings and exhibitions. Some of my highlights in past years have been showing at London Short Film Festival, Rich Mix, the Whitechapel Gallery, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Brighton Dome, Beacons Festival and for various festivals in Europe and the US. I have also had the pleasure of exhibiting work all over the UK, with highlights being at the Truman Brewery, PAPER Arts, Candid Arts Trust, UKYA festival, Trispace Gallery and Leeds City College.

Emily Bailey Live Visuals and ACRA 2013 *Please note, this video contains some flashing imagery.* Kurious is a collaboration between Emily Bailey Live Visuals and ACRA. Emily Bailey is a moving image artist working with film and digital media to create abstract live visuals for bands and musicians. ACRA is an inventive electronic producer making ambient and washed out beats by fusing vintage sounds and cassette hardware with pristine production. Kurious is a rumination on the body, cosmetic enhancement and physical perfection. By physically manipulating film and using materials that act as extensions of the body such as hair, a sense of synthetic consciousness has been engineered as the materials begin to take on a life of their own. The search for perfection becomes an unachievable and endless loop twinned with degradation and disintegration. Mixture of analogue and digital material: Analogue: coloured ink, oil, vinegar, hair, tape, cotton threads, cotton wool, staples, plastic discs, masking tape on 16mm black and clear leader, found 16mm film footage. Digital: macro footage of eyes, skin, hair and blades Digitally edited and composited.

The Colours In My Head is a psychedelic audiovisual journey inspired by the colours and patterns that dance beneath the eyelids on the brink of sleep. Emily Bailey’s hand painted animations coalesce with Capa’s Jump’s atmospheric soundscape to create a hallucinatory vista spiraling out of control.

SLEEP is an audiovisual painting made from digitised 16mm film and is projection mapped onto a screen that takes the geometric patterned shape of a form constant. From static cloudiness and peripheral flashes of light to vivid hypnagogic hallucinations and rich REM dream states, SLEEP explores the architecture of the sleeping mind. Based on extensive neurobiological research the film is 20 minutes in length and designed to loop.