A short extract from Spring and Summer 2024 'Ecology and Economics’.
Role: Filmmaker
A short film that explores the origins of the design for the Ilkley Fountain. Artist Juliet Gutch took a model of the new sculpture up on to the moor and filming took place during two light-filled autumnal mornings.
Fountain design: Juliet and Jamie Gutch developed collaboratively with Improving Ilkley
Architect: Anthony Barnett
Engineer: Ian Whitlam
Fabrication: James Wilkinson
Film: Clare Dearnaley
Shot on Ilkley Moor October 2024
“It is wonderful to see this celebration of sphagnum moss, a tiny plant which plays a vital role in holding water on the moors, and storing carbon for future generations. With help from volunteers, Friends of Ilkley Moor, BMDC and Rebel Restoration, Moors for the Future Partnership will have planted over 60,000 sphagnum plants on Ilkley Moor by March 2025 and the design of this fountain will help to highlight the concept of a sustainable future.”
Richard Brewster, Conservation Works Officer
Moors for the Future Partnership
This film evolved with the development of ideas around an immersive exhibition inspired by Sphagnum moss. With seed funding from Bradford 2025 and preparatory discussions with both Born in Bradford and the Life Sciences Department at the University of Bradford there is the intention of a future ‘Moss’ project.
A short film commissioned to explore Hannah Lamb’s subtle and nuanced art practice.
Rich with the layering of materials, techniques, histories, time and contexts.
It is shot in several locations with significant textile history that accentuate material dialogues.
Hannah discussed her work and processes during recorded conversations in her studio.
Funded by Arts Council England
Film at Sunny Bank Mills
Bradford college textile archive
Curator June Hill
Film by Clare Dearnaley
Role: Director
‘Refuge’ is a film about the Art collector Ronnie Duncan’s Stone Garden. Shot over a year it is led by capturing light passing across the stones, which appears to animate them and by an absorbing conversation with Ronnie. ‘Refuge’ gently examines stories; the creation of an environment, the nature of possessions and the reclaiming and reusing of materials that are given new purpose and life within the stone walls.
‘To think or reflect is to step aside from events, to give up the world for a space of internal quiet, as if you have entered a walled garden.’
Role: Producer, Co-writer, 2nd unit Director & Editor
This feature documentary is a reflection of modern china from its artists, filmmakers and curators, narrated by Rufus Sewell.
China’s contemporary artists are at the rock-stars of the art world living a lifestyle more synonymous with New York than the People’s Republic of China. ‘The Great Chinese Art Revolution’ charts the history of contemporary art through its key movements and events since the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1979.
First Broadcast on True Stories, channel 4 2009
Winner best documentary at New York HD Fest
Role: Producer
Breaking Ground tells the story of the London Irish Women's Centre, a radical organisation founded to support generations of Irish women in London. The film does more than just recount the story of the Centre from its origins in the 1980s to its closure in 2012. It is a creative fusion of montage, archive and oral history that greatly contributes to our understanding of radical feminism, national identity and sexual politics during this period. Made by an all women crew, the film combines captivating and candid archive footage filmed in London over 30 years, with thoughtful and provocative accounts from some of the amazing women who were part of the women's movement in the city during that time.
Breaking Ground was directed by Michelle Deignan. The film was co-funded by Mind Yourself and the UK's Big Lottery Fund in 2013.
