Sam Firth is currently working on a year-long video project on a remote Scottish peninsula near her home on Knoydart, an isolated community of just over 100 people. She talks to Andrew Bryant about personal narrative, securing funding and recent media criticism attracted by her current project.
One of the most predominant ideas in my research has been the idea of discovery within a gallery or museum and the feeling of getting lost among the work (such as the Buren research mentioned in my last post). My […]
I am re inventing this blog, re invigorating it. However, because I have spent so long re writing the introduction, it is now time for me to get ready for work and I have no time to write this entry. […]
Drawings summer-autumn 2011
So I’m going to start posting video shorts of things I’m finding interesting. I’m keeping some of the best up my sleeve as I’ll probably use them as a basis for some new films. It has been pretty cold and […]
Today I am really looking forward to getting into my temporary studio. I’ve just spent most of the morning/afternoon annoyed and irritated. Annoyed with my husband trying chat to me, annoyed with my dogs following me around the house and […]
Sifting through the photographs for printing for this project it’s interesting to find the ones which really catch my attention with some space between the time I took them and now. The colours of the landscape are stronger when I […]
Random collection… Just in case you thought Tokyo was alive with colour – here’s the grey, grey, grey and more grey view from our (very nice residency flat). Must get plant. Followed swiftly by a car turntable – an amazing […]
Tsukiji Fish Market… This was an incredible experience at 5 o’clock in the morning… unbelievable performance art! The inspection of the giant sized tuna, the ringing of the bells, the tried and tested expertise of the auctioneer… Fascinating!! And tinged […]
