Richard Bevan

About

Reflecting on the tangible resonance of the approaches to film and video work that were developed and utilised by those associated with the ‘Expanded Cinema' movement of the 60's and 70's, such as FilmAktion and others linked with the London Film-Makers'Co-Op, artist Richard Bevan has been invited by Neil Jefferies, the second member of CYcLE CLUB to create a new film work. Bevan and Jefferies both studied at Cardiff School of Art & Design and spent their initial graduate years within the city working together on a number of projects. Now both based in London, they have come together to respond to the CYcLORAMA programme. Richard Bevan is an artist whose practice is grounded in the medium of 16mm film that was once treasured by the early Expanded Cinema artists but is now becoming increasingly obsolete. As an artist he is interested in the acute material vitality of the medium. His films are inherently site-specific and often record ephemeral moments within the site that the work is subsequently projected. These interventions and constructions manipulate and emphasise the light that is such an integral agent in the filming process. His finished films, which often last only a few minutes, shooting on an old Bolex wind-up camera, and working with the medium's practical limitations, is then looped in order to give the details of the scene an opportunity to emerge gently. Richard Bevan graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art MA in 2008, he has had solo exhibitions at G39, Cardiff in 2009, R O O M, London in 2010 and exhibited his Punctuation project at Limoncello Gallery in January this year. Group shows include Portmanteau, Halle 14, Leizpig The Last Days of the Empire, g39, Cardiff. In 2010 Bevan exhibited works at Liste Young Art Fair, Basel with Tanya Leighton (Berlin). Neil Jefferies is a member of CYcLE CLUB at Cell Project Space and is currently studying on the MFA curating course at Goldsmiths College, London. In late 2010 he was selected by the Contemporary Art Society to curate an exhibition from the permanent collection at the 'Southampton City Gallery' to open in March 2012 as part of the organisation's 'Starting Point initiative'.