SPORT! By Sedgley and Brown
SPORT! (2021) is the first video art piece by Sedgley and Brown as part of their [INSIDE OUT] residency at The Asylum Art Gallery in Wolverhampton, England.
SPORT! has been made using painted strips of Super8 film, using colours connected to the sporting legacies of Wolverhampton.
Orange/Gold for Wolverhampton Wanderers
Blue/Yellow for the teams of University of Wolverhampton
Red/White for the Porsche 917k driven by Richard Attwood at LeMans 24h.
The installed video, the canvases and the strips of Super8 negative are on display from May 15th - June 15th in an evolving curated space. Visit on Thursday, Friday or Saturday to see the exhibition.
‘INDUSTRY’ (2021) is the second video art piece made by Sedgley and Brown as part of the [INSIDE OUT] residency exhibition at Asylum Artist Quarter
INDUSTRY uses strips of Super8 film that abstract artist Alec Sedgley used to paint three canvases. The three collections of Super8film were digitised and edited into a triptych layout, continuing Alec’s decision to do three separate canvases.
The blue/brown is for the canals that started and continued to aid the boom in industrial practices
The red/orange/yellow is for the furnaces
The metallics is for the steel, jewellery and wealth that was produced in the area of Wolverhampton
All three set of film include black for charcoal and all three sets of film have been agitated with wire wool
INDUSTRY will be on display at the [INSIDE OUT] exhibition at the Asylum Artists Quarter until 15th June
'14/7' is the third video in a series of art works by Sedgley and Brown as part of the [INSIDE OUT] residency at The Asylum Artist Quarter Wolverhampton.
'14/7' is named after the 14th of July, the chosen date for 'Black Country Day' in the West Midlands, United Kingdom.
To capture this day in the series of works, '14/7' started as a triptych of paintings created by Alec Sedgley. The canvases were painted black, white and red (from the colours of the Black Country Flag) and strips of Super8 film were fixed to the canvas.
Alec Sedgley created his own spray paint and explored different methods of application to the canvases. The strips of film were removed and Alec applied the '14/7' to the canvases with painting pens and stencils.
Thomas Jack Brown cleaned and digitised the strips of negative and using the triptych as an influencing factor, Thomas created the video art work in Adobe Premiere Pro CC, using all three sets of painted Super8 film (either as the background or the text insert) and experimenting with brightness and contrast controls and different speeds of playback.
Unlike other works created in the residency, where the title of the piece disappears, the '14/7' is visible in the majority of the works. This is a direct link to the triptych canvases.
14/7 is available to view at the Asylum Artist Quarter [INSIDE OUT] exhibition until the 15th of June 2021.
‘CREST’ (2021) is the fourth and final video art piece by Sedgley and Brown as part of the [INSIDE OUT] residency at The Asylum Artist Quarter in Wolverhampton.
‘CREST’ has been created using strips of Super8 film that Alec Sedgley dragged through a wet pour painting of the same name. The colours used in ‘CREST’ are colours from the Wolverhampton coat of arms and poured onto a white background.
The strips have been cleaned and digitised and edited in Premiere Pro CC.
The film has been scaled down, slowed down and arranged in a four-screen layout with horizontal and vertical flips applied to create the illusion of colour moving out from the centre.
The first four-screen layout was opaquely layered over a second four-screen layout with the horizontal and vertical flips inverted.
‘CREST’ will be installed in the window of The Asylum Artist Quarter on Friday until June 15th and Asylum are holding a copy of ‘CREST’ for future screenings.
