The experimental video A Year at the Coal Loader was created during art residency at the historical industrial Coal Loader site in Sydney, Australia. It plays with the material features of the site in the Surrealist, dreamlike manner.
A Year at the Coal Loader
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video with sound
Duration 3:42 min.
March 2017
The video Treespotting focuses on trees and people in the age of Anthropocene. It plays with the contrast between the still presence of the trees and the transient flow of people in selected urban locations of Sydney's North Shore. The trees that tenaciously cling to life in the city emerge as silent and dignified witnesses to the human condition. Although often ignored or just overlooked, they appear as a fixed axis to people's diverse daily lives. The practice of "treespotting" therefore provides short glimpses into these lives.
Treespotting
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video
Duration 6:42 min.
August 2019
Selected, Group Exhibition Home Grown: The Tenacious Realm, The Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial 2019
Incinerator Art Space, 4 - 29 September 2019
Part of Alma Studholme's solo exhibition
A Year at the Coal Loader
The Coal Loader Centre for Sustainability
22 April - 13 May 2017
A+B Studholme
Collaborative Digital Media Platform
Alma Studholme
[multimedia artist]
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Brett Studholme
[video artist/photographer]
Selected Exhibitions & Projects
2024 Finalists, Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia, 27 May - 23 June
2024 Video Art Screening Opposite Flow, 2nd edition, IFOD, Izmir, Turkiye
2024 Selected, Solo Exhibition North Sydney Vignettes, Ridge Street Window Gallery, Arts & Culture North Sydney,
Australia
2023 Selected, Opposite Flow Screening Programme, International Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium,
Kadiköy Baris Manco Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkiye
2023/2024 Recipients of North Sydney Creative Grant, Arts & Culture North Sydney, Australia
2023 Editing (Alma Studholme) of Pamela Leung's Film Why does God allow these things happen to us? Exhibition
Entwined Within, Art Space on The Concourse, Willoughby, Australia
2023 Finalists, Burwood Art Prize, Burwood, Australia
2023 Selected, Artists in Residence, Bundanon Trust, Shoalhaven, Australia, Bundanon Website Link
2023 Screening of Pamela Leung's Red Line Story (videography by Brett Studholme, editing by Alma Studholme),
Pamela Leung's Solo Exhibition Longing for Home II, Cloc Projects, Sheffield, UK
2022 Photographs by Brett Studholme in Article by Alma Studholme: Oceans in a tea cup
Garland Magazine, Issue G26, Objecthood: Why we still need things, 1 March
2022 Filming (Brett Studholme) & Editing (Alma Studholme) of Pamela Leung's Film Red Line Story,
Exhibition Parallel Wanderings 双行游, Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Willoughby City Council,
The Concourse Urban Screen + Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney, Australia
2022 Photographs by Brett Studholme in Article by Alma Studholme: Pamela Leung's Red Line Story
Garland Magazine, Loop, 1 February
2021 Selected (Alma Studholme), Group Exhibition Contrasts, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2020 Joint Exhibition (with Terhi Hakola) Tears of Things, Incinerator Art Space, Sydney, Australia
2020 Invited, Group Exhibition Retracing, Art Space on The Concourse, Sydney, Australia
2020 Selected (Brett Studholme), Group Exhibition The Performer, Photography Rome Fest - WEFO20,
Millepiani, Rome, Italy
2020 Selected, Onirica Film Festival, La Spezia, Italy
2020 Selected, Group Exhibition The Sensation of Home, FaB Festival, Bath, UK
2020 Selected, Group Exhibition BEAUTY/?, K.L.8 Exhibition Space, Brussels, Belgium
2020 Finalists, Artists of Mosman: 2088, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2019 Finalists, The Willoughby Visual Arts Biennial: The Tenacious Realm, Sydney, Australia
2017 A Year at the Coal Loader - Video & Photographs, part of A Studholme's solo exhibition A Year at the Coal Loader
2016 Salt Mandala Performance Video, part of A Studholme's solo exhibition Accreation II: Ontological Transmutations
Acquisitions
2024 North Sydney Council
2024 North Sydney Heritage Centre
Three Waters: Tears, Tea, Sea
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video with sound
Duration: 15:32 min.
December 2019
Red Cube
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video with sound
Duration: 5:46 min.
April 2020
The sculpture Red Cube is the main element of this video project. Filmed against the Sydney cityscape, the cube stands as a surreal entity which appears to be both artificial and organic.
Materials: Perspex, silicone cast of animal caul fat (omentum majus), embedded red lights
Dimensions: H40 x W40 x D40 cm
The film is centred around water that permeates every aspect of human life: our environments, our cultural rituals and our biology. It documents a highly personal tea ceremony performed by a mother and daughter on the shorelines of two different seas - the Mediterranean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The Sea, viewed as both the physical and metaphysical ground of being, invites the notion of a mysterium tremendum et fascinans, being experienced at the same time as both beautiful and terrifying; as a calming connecting presence and as a force which divides. While facing the seas that separate them, mother and daughter are cradling ceramic cups cast from each other's hands. The cups, warmed by tea, evoke the warmth of each other's touch and the ritual becomes a way of both confronting and overcoming their physical distance; of establishing a spiritual and embodied connection. The film encompasses the exploration of fluid states of physical absence and presence within an intimate relationship, as well as the possibility of overcoming physical boundaries through an aestheticised personal ritual in art.
Salt Mandala Performance Video
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video
Duration 9:01 min.
2016
Part of Alma Studholme's solo exhibition
Accreation II: Ontological Transmutations
Verge Gallery, Sydney
2016
Chasing Fibonacci
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video with sound
Duration 5:14 min.
September 2020
The film presents a playful and dreamlike tracing of the Fibonacci sequence, which is observed in various spiral patterns, forms and movements in nature and in the authors' everyday life. Whilst superimposed video layers present these forms and movements, they also point to the layered states of mind behind the creative processes of art making.
Salt Mandala Performance
No. 1 & No. 2
by Brett Studholme
Photographs Selected for Group Exhibition The Performer
Photography Rome Fest - WEFO20, Millepiani, Rome, Italy
15-22 October 2020
The photographs record Alma Studholme's performance featured also in Salt Mandala Performance Video.
Filmed by Brett Studholme
Edited by Alma Studholme
Performance by Natalie Quan Yau Tso
Music by Adrian Leung
Self-Portrait as an Owl
by Alma Studholme
Digital Collage Selected for Group Exhibition Contrasts
Millepiani, Rome, Italy
13 July - 10 August 2021
Red Line Story
by Pamela Leung
Single channel video with sound
Duration 4:03 min.
January 2022
Film screening at the exhibition Parallel Wanderings 双行游, Chatswood Year of the Tiger Festival, Willoughby City Council
The Concourse Outdoor Area, Chatswood NSW, 27 January - 20 February 2022
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Tree of Life
by A+B Studholme
Single channel video with sound
Duration 3:41 min.
March 2023
The short experimental art film Tree of Life follows the flow of ontological transformations of a couple against the Australian landscape. As the two undergo changes through multiple life cycles and various life forms, they maintain their bond as inseparable parts of the same tree of life. The film is made by combining animation, performative elements and layers of superimposed video footage.
Film screening at the International Short Film, Video and Photography Symposium - Opposite Flow, Kadiköy Baris Manco Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkiye, 21 October 2023.
Video Art Screening Opposite Flow, 2nd edition, IFOD, Izmir, Turkiye, 15 February, 2024.
North Sydney Vignettes
by A+B Studholme
Seven short single channel videos
Duration 36 minutes
January 2024
North Sydney Vignettes is an experimental exploration through video, animation and historic archival imagery - of selected motifs, patterns and movements of life within the North Sydney's natural and cultural environments. Seven short films are played in an endless loop on five screens: each screen showing a different film at any given time. Referenced archival imagery was provided courtesy of Stanton Library Historic Services. It has been creatively reimagined though animated drawings and collages that have been layered into cinematic non-linear narratives which blend past and present of the place.
Films were funded by 2023/2024 North Sydney Creative Grant and were exhibited in Ridge Street Window Gallery from 12 January to 26 February 2024,
Vignette No. 1: Clouds, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.
Vignette No. 2: 9 to 5, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.
Vignette No. 3: Shadows, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.
Vignette No. 4: Milsons Point: Thinking of Escher Between 5 and 6, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.
Vignette No. 5: Of People and Trains, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.
Vignette No. 6: Of Buildings and Plants, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.
Vignette No. 7: Calligraphy Game, video, duration 5 minutes, still images.