Terry Flaxton

I have worked with sound composition, photography and film, developing a particular interest in analogue video during the 1970s. Beginning with a BA Hons in Communication Design in 1979 I have spent over 30 years working as a cinematographer, which included shooting the third ever electronically captured movie with Channel 4 and the BFI’s Out of Order in 1986. My work today focuses on durational forms of the digital including sound, video, print and installation.

Since 1979, I have exhibited internationally, including Tokyo, Moscow, Xi’an, Milan, Algiers, Strasbourg and recently Florence, Dublin and New York (recent shows at the Cathedral of St John the Divine in NY attracted over 1.2 million visitors). My work has won various awards including both the Montbeliard and Locarno Prix Graphs and Prix Nike Amsterdam. Future shows include San Francisco, New York, Bristol, Milan, Bergen and Ljubljana amongst others.

I'm a lifetime Academician at the Royal West of England Academy of Art; was, until recently, Professor of Cinematography and Lens Based Arts at University of the West of England. In 2015 I started CineFest. My aim as an artist is to create challenging moving image work and this has been widely recognised and featured in publications including A History of Video Art, Bloomsbury, 2006 and 2014; Diverse Practices, University of Luton Press, 1996; and A Directory of British Film and Video, Arts Council England, 1997. My works are held in various collections including Lux London, Video les Beaux Jours Strasbourg and AICE Milan. My 2008 work In Re Ansel Adams is in the permanent collections of the Harris Museum in Preston and the Royal West of England Academy of Art.

I'm a Lifetime Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

https://www.seditionart.com/terry-flaxton