Benedict Drew: The Anti Ecstatic Machines

22 Sep-30 Sep 2018

Overview

A song in digital video, painting and sound, Drew’s source material is a body of film he has shot in 16mm at sites around the south of England. 16mm film marks a new development in the artist’s practice, who has transferred the analogue footage into digital video for editing. Locations such as the port at Dover, the industrial greenhouses of Thanet Earth and new-build residential housing developments become material for a body of work whose backdrop is the social and political fall out of Tory austerity and the EU referendum. The 'Machines' of the title here stand in for forces at work in the socio-political climates we live in.