Brandon John Barnard

  This article will go over the creation of my film ‘ Under Ice ’, which was released on the 3rd of January, 2025. It all started when I saw a gallery open call from ADL Productions. This curator was requesting art pieces under the theme ‘Under Ice’, using  Kate Bush’s song  as inspiration. All selected pieces would be displayed at 54 The Gallery, Mayfair, London. W1J 7QX. Since my academic study is in ‘chance’, I try to engage within the theme whenever possible. I would never have made a film about this topic at this time if it were not for the prompt, so I decided to throw myself into it. I also found the deadline very appealing. I find that chance works best with a restriction, so the fact that this all needed to be done within a month was a great motivator My initial ideas can be seen below: While the sheet of ice idea was not used, I stuck with the idea of someone reading Bush’s lyrics over the footage I created. In terms of who read it, I decided not to ask Abi as I...

Tinguely Feeling  was one of the most complicated projects I have done so far. The seed of this idea was originally planted in June of 2024, when I started reading into  Nouveau réalisme . Jumping down rabbit hole after rabbit hole eventually dropped me onto a page about  Jean Tinguely  and  Métamatics . Métamatics was a series of works started in the 1950s which used robots and automation to create works of art. Often, these works would use chance elements, meaning that each work created by these machines was unique in some capacity, with interesting results being churned out. That really simplifies it, though. There were pieces that exploded, many water fountains, and pieces that evoked many of the themes that Duchamp’s readymades did as well. I really recommend reading further into the topic yourself. At this point, I was still on a DADA high, so the similarities between the areas was compelling to me too. I was really drawn in by many of the points made with...