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http://www.jacobwhittaker.co.uk
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If
you want to read more about the ideas behind
my work try here
and here,
although written some time ago the basic principles
still remain. Other ideas are expressed alongside
the work on their relevent pages. Exhibitions, Screenings, Performances etc
(Other
current and recent projects include video
for Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Oriel Mwldan Gallery, Culture Colony, Julie Murphy, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Rhôd,
Holy
Hiatus, Small
World Theatre; and many others. Contact me to discuss your project.) Recent
Oct - Dec 2019 - Curers, Charms and Curses - Short films in a group show at Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth
Nov 2019 - Can Elenydd with Sianed Jones at Shift Cardiff
Oct 26 - Open Screen Night - 5th anniversary edition
Sept 13 - Absent but not Forgotten - 13Fridays offering at Afon festival
Aug 24 - The Christmas Variations - Oriel Blodau Bach
Aug 13th 2019 - Sounds at Llanina - Performance with Deuair, 5 turntables and field recordings.
July 2019 - Sounds of the Summer - vinyl record cover selections on a shelf in Bara Menyn, Aberteifi.
May 2019 - Curers, Charms and Curses - Short films in a group show - Monongalia arts centre, Morgantown, WV, USA
2018 Aug 2018 - March 2019 : The Found of Music @ Bara Menyn Bakehouse - A series of vinyl record cover selections on a shelf in Bara Menyn, Aberteifi.
November 29th - 70s Record Player - Bring your own 70s vinyl for a spin or choose from a selection of mine.
June 10th - Open Screen Night with GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
Friday 13th April - Friday 13th July - Absent but not Forgotten: thirteenfridays - 13picnics April 28th Mixes at an Exhibition - Performance for 'Strange Eden', an exhibition of work by James Moore at Oriel Mwldan, Cardigan
February 10th - Open Screen Night with GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
February 17th - Synthesthesia - Experimental installation at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
2017 October 21st-22nd - Rhod In Roath - Installation on Ninian Rd, part of madeinroath. Red Oktober - 3pm - 8pm, Punk Bikes, Bedford st, Roath. Installation & participative vinyl record performance, part of madeinroath.
September 26th -29th - Railway Humours with Ceri Rhys Matthews & Peter Stevenson, Medina, Aberystwyth; Yr Hen Ysgol, Llanfihangel ar Arth; Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen.
September 9th - Open Screen Night with GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan September 3rd - John Roberts Telynor Cymru - A short film with Peter Stevenson & Harriet Earis, Oriel Davies, Newtown July/August - Bragu Blodeuwedd at Oriel Blodau Bach, Carmarthen
April/May - Bragu Blodeuwedd film and installation. Part of Pumed Gainc - A Fifth Branch group show in the Willow Gallery, Oswestry May 28th - Songs of Revolution, with the Rhôd Artists Group at Chapter Art Car Bootique https://www.chapter.org/art-car-bootique-2017 April 21st - Open Screen Night with GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
2016 Nov 18th - A mix for an evening, experimental DJ performance for an Evening of Artist Film and Performance, Manorbier
July - Selected videos from 'Singing the Line into Existence' shown in The Eye, Aberystwyth Arts Centre for the Aber Music Fest 2016 May - Video showreel installation of 'A Colony on the Edge; 2010 Blues; Blossom 1459; The Mem’ry of a Rose; Mi Welais Jac y Do' part of Flora & Fauna group show in the Corn Exchange Gallery, Cardigan Feb - Screening of 'The Mermaid; The Llanina Mermaid; Miracles of Fishes' as part of Mermaids & the Sea group show in the Corn Exchange Gallery, Cardigan
2015
November 21st - Open Screen Night with GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
Ocober 31st - November 13th Absent but not Forgotten V with Kathryn Campbell Dodd
October 11th - Absent but not Forgotten: Rose St Flea Market with Made in Roath and Kathryn Campbell Dodd
October 10th - Flora Social at Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen. more info October 3rd - Singing the Line into Existence at Ceredigion Museum
August 29th - Open Screen Night - GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
August 22nd - Singing the Line into Existence Launch event at Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen
May 9th - Open Screen Night - GWRANDO at Small World Theatre, Cardigan
2014 August 24th - Brew Your Hedgerow - Collaborative workshop with Wildpickings forager Jade Mellor at Small World Theatre, Cardigan.
August 17th & 18th - Wine and Roses - at The Garden 2014- Group show in Nevern.
June 2014 - July 31st - Underground - Group show with Colony Projects Cefn Coed mining museum, Creunant
May 23-24th- Absent but not Forgotten at 'Bodies in Land' film festival, Abercych, Carmarthenshire
May 25th - 31st - Rhôd 2014, Group show. Drefelin, Carmarthenshire. March 2014 - Absent but not Forgotten @ BYOB II BIT studios, Cardiff
March 2014 - Tabernacl Newydd . Group show with Colony Projects Port Talbot.
October 2013 - Nobody plays records anymore - Milkwood gallery and Roath area for Made in Roath 2013
13/9/13 - 13/12/13 thirteenfridays - A 13 week project for Absent but not Forgotten with Kathryn Campbell Dodd
June - September 2013 Who is this who is Coming? - Absent but not Forgotten at Be our guest, Oriel Davies - with Kathryn Campbell Dodd
July/August 13 - Absent but not Forgotten at Ilfra Expo, Ilfracombe, Devon with Kathryn Campbell Dodd
Oct -Nov 2012 - The Witching Hour - Absent but not Forgotten sound work in a group show at Goat Major Projects, Cardiff. Opening times: 18.00-20.30 Monday – Friday 10.00 -16.00 Weekends.
November 9th 2012- Predicting a climate archive - Pod 09, Aberystwyth Arts Centre. Group show with Julian Ruddock, Sam Christie & Jess Rose. July - Oct 2012 - Finding Rhayader - GWRANDO in Rhayader Museum September 2012 - Sounds from the Sphere - Capel Y Graig - participative event, part of Gŵyl Hwyl, Bro Dyfi’s free Culture open days 2012. August 2012 - Capel Y Graig - collaborative open studio event, part of the Ceredigion Art Trail. June
2012 - Absent
but not Forgotten at 'The Last Contemporary
Art Festival', Llangadog.
April
-2012 - What Does Your Voice Look Like? &
An Experiment in Visible Voice - GWRANDO
in The Old Tannery, Machynlleth. More
information and video Jan - Apr 2012 - 4 Vinyl Films - Tying Tone Arms, Panaround, Shaky and 15 Fragments screening in 'The Box', Aberystwyth Arts Centre
Feb
- March 2012 - Collaborative residency and
installation work with Rhôd
Artists Group in The
Old Tannery, Machynlleth
Dec 24th 2011 - Jacob's Christmas Crackers - Experimental seasonal sounds webcast from Aberteifi
November 2011 - Absent But Not Forgotten -The Seventh Room, Abertoir Horror Film Festival, Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
October 2011 - Absent But Not Forgotten @ blinc digital arts Festival, Conwy
June 2011 - Yr Hen Wlad: Gadael Traeth
Abertawe - Screening as part of Refuse
at St Dogmaels Gallery.
Jan - Feb 2011- One Chord Town. Screening as part of My Place, in the Ffilm 2 group show at Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea.
October 2010 - Capeli Dyffryn Teifi 2010, Corn Exchange, Cardigan Guildhall. An exhibition by GWRANDO for 2010 celebrations of Cardigan.
September 2010 - 'Vigil' - Live performance with GWRANDO to accompany video installation by Ruth Jones. More info.
July 2010 - Open Studio 2010 - The Last Open Studios at Abereifed Cottage, Llechryd.
July 2010 - Art At Rhosygilwen - A Natural Selection screening in the video yurt, and A Vintage Picnic around the grounds with a selection of old gramophones, 78s and cucumber sandwiches.
June 2010 - Open Studio 2010 - The Penultimate Open Studios at Abereifed Cottage, Llechryd.
June 2010 - GWRANDO presents Capeli 2010 - Launch event in Bethania chapel Cardigan.
May 2010 - Rhôd 2010 - Proses Y Pererin: Teithio'r Bargod. A new Pilgrim's Process film created for the group show at the New Mill, Drefelin, Carmarthenshire.
March / April 2010 - Absent but not Forgotten - An installation for The Last Gallery, with Kathryn Campbell-Dodd.
January
2010 - 9
Artist's Films Theatre Mwldan,
December 2009 - A Partridge Family Christmas in a Conference Pear Tree - Screened at The Framework Social, Swansea.
October 2009 - Wormhole - Installation with Louise Bird. Part of Auxesis, group exhibition, Tactile Bosch, Llandaff, Cardiff. July 2009 - Loopholes - An experiment in crochet, video and sound with Louise Bird. The Old Tannery, Machynlleth. May-July 2009. THE EVENT HORIZON with Louise Bird - ACW funded project. April 2009 - FlickerSycamore used to recreate a forest atmosphere as part of an educational exhibition in Hjoerring Public Library, Denmark. April 2009 - The Cosmos in CD Cases, Group exhibition, Arton Gallery, Kyoto, Japan. More info. April 2009 - 'Vigil' - Live performance with GWRANDO to accompany video installation by Ruth Jones. More info. March 2009 - One Chord Town. Screening as part of My Place, group show at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen. December 2008 - Slowing Stream screened at the Jolly Farmer (Newton Abbot), The Blue Walnut Cafe (Torquay), Castle Inn (Totnes) as part of 'The View from Here' festival's 'In View' screenings. Sept - Nov 2008 - Quest - A film by Minna Hint and Maxim Surin. Featuring the artworks of Paul Granjon, Jan Gerlings & Jacob Whittaker. With accompanying work by the artists. Glyn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea. Info October 2008 - 332/3 - A webcast performance. more. September 2008 - Capeli Dyffryn Teifi (Group - GWRANDO presentation with film screening of new 'Pilgrims Process: Following Fingerprints' work. More Information.) August - September 2008 - Cardigan Open Studios Preview (Group exhibition at Mwldan, Cardigan. Digital films from the last few years.) August 2008 - Cardigan Open Studios. This years open studios includes film, performance, installation, drawings, paintings and prints. Also includes guest artist Sam Knight with some splendid woodwork. Open 11am-6pm. July - August 2008 - ARTSfest 2008 (Group exhibition with FAS at Tregwynt Mansion, Granston.) July 2008 - SHORE MOVE! Animation day with members of the public and Fishguard Art Society at the Ocean Lab in Goodwick. Watch some. June - July 2008 - Tying Tone Arms, Timing and Time Adrift (Group - Screening as part of Mission Open 2008 at the Mission Gallery, Swansea.) June 2008 - Capeli Dyffryn Teifi Project Launch (Group - GWRANDO presentation with film screening of new 'Pilgrims Process: Following Fingerprints' work. More Information.) June 2008 - Art At Rhosygilwen (Group - Sound and Video Installation with Louise Bird.) Feb 2008 - Valentines Memories 2008 - (Solo webcast performance and online exhibit)
Dec 2007 - Jacob's Christmas Crackers
2007 - (Solo
– Pendre Gallery, Nov 2007 - Making a Stag - (Group - Screening as part of 'The View From Here', South Devon) October 2007 - The Big Draw (Fishguard Library - Fishguard Art Society public event) A day of drawing and animating in Fishguard exploring the 'Last Invasion'. Drawings by members of the public led by Rebecca Philips Williams. October 2007 - Capeli: Capel Crannog (GWRANDO Collaboration with Lou Laurens – Part of the Experimentica Festival in Chapter Arts, Cardiff. September 2007 – Timing (Group – Devon Open Studio 07, Jansch Studios, Devon) September 2007 - Tying Tone Arms (Group – Screening at the Café Gallery, London as part of PROJEKTOR) August 2007- Cardigan Open Studios (Solo - Video & sound installation and performance in and around the studio, including webcasts. August 2007 - Cardigan Open Studios Preview (Group - Preview exhibition at Pendre Art, Cardigan, Ceredigion. June - July 2007 - Capeli: Capel Crannog (Group - The debut presentation by GWRANDO. Founded in January 07 by Jacob Whittaker & Lou Laurens. May 2007 – Vinyl Altar (lp) (Group – ‘Art is Not Mute’ at Ersta Konsthall,Stokholm, Sweden; Institute of contemporary art - dunaújváros (Hungary); Botkyrka Konsthall, Sweden; Gothenburg, Sweden; Uppsala museum of art, Sweden.) May 2007 – Tying Tone Arms (Group – Shown at the Shunt Vaults, London as part of a film night curated by Glen Neath and Susanne Dietz) Mar 2007 – Song of the Sea: Exodus 15 - Lost and found in Translation (Collaborative film with Alisa Phillips) (Group – Old Café Gallery, Aberystwyth) Mar - Nov 2007 – Talk Across Time (Group – ‘Yn y Lle Hwn’, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth) Feb 2007 - A Love Story (Solo – Pendre gallery, Cardigan) Jan 2007 – Tying Tone Arms (Group - Screened at Llangollen ‘ReallyRestrictive Shorts’) 2006
– Jacob’s
Christmas Crackers (Solo – Pendre
Gallery, 2006
– Soundlab
IV
(Group – Web. Edition IV was launched
in October 2006 under the title “memoryscapes”
- incorporating 144 artists and 235 soundart
pieces dealing with “memory and identity”
in most different ways, and it became corporate
part of the media art show ://selfportrait
- a show for Bethlehem - a show for Peace
http://self.engad.org - presented in Palestine,
Poland, Italy and Argentina, as an individual
project it participated 2007 in FILE Hipersonica
Sao Paulo and FILE Rio 2008.)
2006
– Studio
Transplant (Solo – 9 days of Art,
Jansch Studios,
2005
– The Pilgrim’s Process (Group - ‘Private
Views’, Tregaron)
2005
– Capel
Crannog (Collaboration with Lou Laurens
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2004
– Love Remembered (Solo
– Carmarthen, WWSOTA)
2003
– My Journey (Group degree
show – Carmarthen,WWSOTA)
Education/QualificationsWest Wales School of Art2000-2003
– BA Art & Design (First class Hons.) 2000-2002
- HND Fine Art 1999
- Access art & design
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