Andy Metcalf
Andy Metcalf
Andy collaborated with Giles Perring in the touring exhibition ‘Exposure’, and although not island based (he lives and works in London), the works he produced for ‘Exposure’ were all conceived during his time in residency on the Isle of Jura. His work ‘Into the Light’ from his Blue Jura series was gifted to the collection after the show at Baile na Cille church in 2021.
Andy’s paintings for ‘Exposure’ fell into three series. BLUE JURA comprises work made in London about the island. SOUNDS OFF is evoked by hearing the sounds from the World Organ playing as Giles worked on his emerging soundscape and WANDERERS originated in the first long residency on the island.
Andy Metcalf is a painter and film maker, known for his bold painting, installation work, and innovative film making, as well as his work for the BBC and for Channel 4. His pioneering TV work, is typified by ‘Welcome to the Spiv Economy’ [which Giles scored with Guy Evans], which was a centre piece of the London Barbican’s 2018 film season ‘The Television Will Be Revolutionised’ ‘Exposure’ has one central collaboration between himself and Giles working together on the suite of six short films, made on Jura over 18 months. The dialogue about ‘Exposure’ – with other collaborators – had often been about the implacable ‘brute’ force of the landscape/weather of Jura and how that impacts on us as ‘vulnerable’ human beings. One result of this dialogue is that he have made one series of paintings , ‘Sounds Off’, which are a response to Giles’s World Organ, made as he worked in the studio on Jura, wrapped up in this soundscape.
In the Quiet