Jane Sybilla Fordham

On Saturday 6th March I held a drawing event at Fabrica, in collaboration with the dancer Marina Tsartsara and Michael Maydon who collects home movies from 20s - 60's as well as many 16mm & 8mm projectors on which he shows them. It was part of Brighton's Adult Learning Festival, the funding achieved from the council by Lisa Finch.

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I started working with film and drawing during my residency at Fabrica Gallery, they asked me to do an evening workshop event during Dominique De Beir's "La Route Blanche" exhibition in 2007. I used Bill Morrison's film "Decasia" an amazing collection of film footage using archival film that he had edited together to make a new sequence of moving images. It was appropriate because we projected it onto Dominique's installation of white cardboard boxes that she had pierced and punctured with her special stabbing tools, creating a decayed and pitted surface.

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