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Catherine Elwes

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Introduction to Summer, by Catherine Elwes

Introduction To Summer

Catherine Elwes 1991

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UK 1991

Video
1 mins, Colour, Sound
Part of the series Spring; Winter; Autumn;

Available for hire (Click here for ordering information)

'This was one of the shortest and simplest pieces I have ever made and, I think, it remains the most formally elegant. It was the last in the Three Seasons series for Channel 4, but after shooting hours of footage for Summer this was the only sequence that I felt I could work with. So it remains an introuduction to a piece I never made. It consists of a one-shot one-minute embrace between a mal [more...]

Catherine Elwes

Born 1952, St Maixent, France. BA in Fine Art from the Slade School of Art, London, 1979. MA in Environmental Media, Royal College of Art, 1982.

Between 1977 and 1981 her initial training as a painter led to performance works at various venues and festivals. From 1981 onwards she began specialising in video and video installation works. She is currently Director of the Digital Editing Research Programme at Camberwell College of Art, London and Director of the British-Canadian culture exchanges with Ontario College of Art and Design.

Read more about Catherine Elwes at Luxonline

Works in the LUX collection

	The Liaison Officer 1997
	Autumn 1991
	Grown Up 1991
	Introduction To Summer 1991
	Spring 1988
	Winter 1987
	Postcard 1986
	Play 1986
	Gunfighters 1985
	Sleep 1984
	There Is A Myth 1984
	With Child 1983
	Kensington Gore 1982