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Central Saint Martins | Sid Motion Prize winner 2024: Vidya Meera

We are delighted to announce that Vidya Meera is the 2024 winner of the Sid Motion Gallery Prize at Central Saint Martins.

Vidya Meera is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. Through holistic and ethical practice, Meera encapsulates people, culture, and conservation through an experimental digital lens, telling stories and encouraging community engagement.

For Meera, the beauty of documentaries lies in the constant state of influence, observation, learning, and participation, with a desire for others to experience and grow with the world.

Determined to bring community closer through narrative, she explores the power of the voice and narrative as tools for intimacy and highlights storytelling’s transformative capacity for fostering connections and its power to drive social change.

For Meera's Degree show, she presented a documentary film and photography installation from her time exploring religious sites of worship in North and South India in March 2024. View her film 'Dear Daivam' here.

Desire Lines | Vincent Hawkins publication

'Desire Lines' is a new publication of watercolours by Vincent Hawkins, published by Folium Publishing which includes a text by Rev Dr Richard Davey.

The publication coincides with 'Beyond the walls of one’s own making' a solo exhibition by Vincent Hawkins at Sid Motion Gallery 3 November - 16 December 2023

£30. Available from the gallery.
For online orders please email: mail@sidmotiongallery.co.uk

More information here.

Central Saint Martins, Sid Motion Prize winner 2023: Sriram Venkatesh

Sid Motion Gallery is delighted to announce that Sriram Venkatesh is the 2023 winner of the Sid Motion Gallery Prize at Central Saint Martins.

Venkatesh works with 3D animation and VR to reflect on the internal states of being, in particular dreams and memories. Venkatesh states "The medium of 3D animation allows me to effectively materialise my internal experiences, turning the inward outwards... From vast, internal landscapes, to claustrophobic, nightmarish rooms, I want to record all of it in as much vivid detail as possible – I want to capture the language of my dreams and its visual vocabulary." Venkatesh creates his worlds, cinematic in their angles and painterly in their use of light.

For the degree show, Venkatesh presented three films on screens in a line, each can be viewed here:
Thought Log: A Nameless Land
Dream Log: St Christopher's School
Dream Log: Adliya Gardens

Venkatesh was interviewed about his work by the Wife of an Art Dealer instagram account, read in full here.

South Bermondsey Art Trail: 25th & 26th August 2023

The South Bermondsey Art Trail is a 2-day event of open studios, exhibitions, screenings, performances, parties and events celebrating the brilliant community of creatives working in South Bermondsey.

12-6pm both days. All welcome. Start the Trail at Sid Motion Gallery to collect a printed map.

Download map and list of participating artists.

Glossaries: Hannah Hughes & Dafna Talmor (publication)

'Glossaries' is a collaborative publication by Hannah Hughes & Dafna Talmor published by Folium Publishing which includes an essay by Dr Briony Carlin.

Published in association with Sid Motion Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition: Glossaries: Hannah Hughes & Dafna Talmor; 1 December, 2022 - 11 February, 2023.

Price: £35. Available from the gallery. For online orders please email info@sidmotiongallery.co.uk