Richard Bladel
Behind the Clock
● Single Channel
■ Format 16:9 (HD)
● Running Time 00:01.04
Artist Statement
Artist Bio
Behind the Clock is a compilation render of a site-specific digital projection artwork first screened as part of Kickstart Arts’ Healing Ground project in 2017. This project explored the cultural, social and political tensions of a colonial trauma site – the Boys & Girls “Orphan Schools” and accompanying St John’s Anglican Church opened in New Town by Governor George Arthur in 1833.
The work was inspired by the strangeness of having this colonial church with its huge imposing clock at its centre built upon muwinina country by mostly white slaves (convicts) a mere few decades after the English arrived. The clock strikes loudly every half hour as if to define everything that surrounds it.
Richard Bladel began his film and digital art-making in Sydney in the mid-1980’s when he majored in film theory & production as part of a BA in Communications at the University of Technology. His film teachers were independent women filmmakers, and these artists had a huge impact on him in terms of developing an aesthetic sensibility.
Over the last 40 years Richard has worked professionally as an Artistic Director, playwright, dramaturg and film-maker with arts organisations from all over Tasmania. For the last 20 years with Kickstart Arts he has produced and been a community artist in at least 45 arts projects and events in many artforms and involving people of all ages from Flinders Island to Dover.
Richard Bladel
Behind the Clock
● Single Channel
■ Format 16:9 (HD)
● Running Time 00:01.04
Artist Statement
Behind the Clock is a compilation render of a site-specific digital projection artwork first screened as part of Kickstart Arts’ Healing Ground project in 2017. This project explored the cultural, social and political tensions of a colonial trauma site – the Boys & Girls “Orphan Schools” and accompanying St John’s Anglican Church opened in New Town by Governor George Arthur in 1833.
The work was inspired by the strangeness of having this colonial church with its huge imposing clock at its centre built upon muwinina country by mostly white slaves (convicts) a mere few decades after the English arrived. The clock strikes loudly every half hour as if to define everything that surrounds it.
Artist Bio
Richard Bladel began his film and digital art-making in Sydney in the mid-1980’s when he majored in film theory & production as part of a BA in Communications at the University of Technology. His film teachers were independent women filmmakers, and these artists had a huge impact on him in terms of developing an aesthetic sensibility.
Over the last 40 years Richard has worked professionally as an Artistic Director, playwright, dramaturg and film-maker with arts organisations from all over Tasmania. For the last 20 years with Kickstart Arts he has produced and been a community artist in at least 45 arts projects and events in many artforms and involving people of all ages from Flinders Island to Dover.