Marty St.James
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Marty St James is Professor of Fine art in the School Art and Design at the University of Hertfordshire
and is perhaps best known nationally and internationally, for his portrait of Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew
: The Swimmer – commissioned in 1990 by the National Portrait Gallery and recently migrated to new digital formats. He studied at the Bournville College of Art.
The Swimmer is a seminal moment in video. Its use of time and fragmentation employing the analogue methodologies and equipment, which were the only ones available in 1990, and the site sensitive sculptural qualities of its installation predicting contemporary developments in video installation. In a process the artist describes as ‘sculpture in time’ his multi–channel video installations capture his subjects in a ‘sliver of time’ – moving yet frozen for all eternity, self consciously entrapped by the technological paraphernalia, which a video work requires to deliver its message.
Marty St.James is a member of CREAC the 'centre for research in electronic art and communication' part of the 'The Fine Art Practices Group'.
In 1984 Marty St.James contributed to VIDEO ART: the early years with a performance for the British/Canadian Video Exchange, A Space / ARC, Toronto.
Marty is a judge in the Art Category for the UjADF Award 2010 UK-Japan Art Design Film Award 2010.
University of Hertfordshire
The University of Hertfordshire is a new university based largely in Hatfield, in the county of Hertfordshire, England, from which the university takes its name. It has more than 27,500 students, over 2500 staff, with a turnover of over £181m...
and is perhaps best known nationally and internationally, for his portrait of Olympic swimmer Duncan Goodhew
Duncan Goodhew
Duncan Alexander Goodhew MBE is a British swimming athlete. After swimming competitively in America as a collegian at North Carolina State University, he was an Olympic swimmer for Great Britain and won Olympic gold and bronze medals at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.-Biography:Goodhew...
: The Swimmer – commissioned in 1990 by the National Portrait Gallery and recently migrated to new digital formats. He studied at the Bournville College of Art.
The Swimmer is a seminal moment in video. Its use of time and fragmentation employing the analogue methodologies and equipment, which were the only ones available in 1990, and the site sensitive sculptural qualities of its installation predicting contemporary developments in video installation. In a process the artist describes as ‘sculpture in time’ his multi–channel video installations capture his subjects in a ‘sliver of time’ – moving yet frozen for all eternity, self consciously entrapped by the technological paraphernalia, which a video work requires to deliver its message.
Marty St.James is a member of CREAC the 'centre for research in electronic art and communication' part of the 'The Fine Art Practices Group'.
In 1984 Marty St.James contributed to VIDEO ART: the early years with a performance for the British/Canadian Video Exchange, A Space / ARC, Toronto.
Marty is a judge in the Art Category for the UjADF Award 2010 UK-Japan Art Design Film Award 2010.
External links
- Marty St.James — official website
- The Portrait NowThe Portrait NowThe Portrait Now was a major international overview of contemporary portraiture held in 1993–1994 at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Among many others it included portraits by Michael Andrews, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Tony Bevan, Chuck Close, Jim Dine, Peter Edwards, Stephen Finer,...
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