Andrew Vallance
My work explores the connections between memory and context, place and presence, through video and photography, screen and installation. I also co-curate the ongoing projects Contact and Underline.
Lived Experience
I co-founded the artist run projects Contact, whose projects include Assembly: A Survey of Recent British Artists’ Film and Video, 2008-13 (Tate Britain) and the publication and international screening series Film Talks: 15 Conversations on Experimental Cinema, and Underline, which would re-imagine urban space through artist intervention, and have exhibited widely, including Contact: Parts 1-2 (New Art Projects, London), which I also curated.
Selected exhibitions & screenings
2026. Material Motion. Filmkoop Wien.
2025. Beck & Call. Contact with King & Noble.
Expanding Cinema: Double-screen Energy. Southampton Film Week with John Hansard Gallery.
Close Up-Year 20. Close Up Cinema. London.
Contact (part 2): Savinder Baul, Jim Hobbs, Simon Payne & Vallance. New Art Projects. London. Never Still. (installation)
Contact with The Thames Submarine: Surfeit III. Café Oto, London.
2023. Beyond Beck Road: Underline II. Open House Festival. London.
One Minute Volume Eleven. Touring programme.
2022. Beyond Beck Road. Underline I. Open House Festival. Situation.
2021. Others, London: Fields of View. One Axe (Plumstead Connection).
2018. The Festival of Ideas, Cambridge.
Whitstable Biennale. Analogue Ensemble: Extending the Frame.
Barbican Arts Group Trust, London. Some Kind of Search.
2017. The Brick Cube, London. Holding Space.
2016. Close Up, London. We are Smoke.
2016. Apiary Studios, London. Contact: A Festival of New Experimental Film & Video.
2013. The Gallery, London. Severance.
2012. Paper Tiger, London. Fieldworks.
2011. The Regency Town House, Brighton. Fieldworks.
2009. British Film Institute, London. Acoustic Images.
2008. Whitechapel Gallery, London. Late Night.
2008. Camden Arts Centre, London. Future Shorts.
2006. London Consortium, Berlin.
International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Selected curatorial work
2026. Material Motion (with Jenny Baines). Filmkoop Wien.
2025. Contact (with The Thames Submarine). Surfeit III. Café Oto, London.
Contact (with The Thames Submarine). Surfeit III. Café Oto, London.
Expanding Cinema: Double-screen Energy, & Experimental Cinema: Dark into Light. Southampton Film Week with John Hansard Gallery.
Close Up-Year 20. Close Up Cinema. London. Anniversary celebratory programme featuring 50 international renowned artists.
Contact (part 2): Savinder Baul, Jim Hobbs, Simon Payne & Vallance. New Art Projects. London.
2024. Contact (part 1): Jenny Baines, Sophie Clements, Carali McCall & Cathy Rogers. New Art Projects. London.
Beyond Beck Road III: Underline. Open House Festival. London. Contact: Film Talks: A Touring Programme of Experimental Cinema, TIFF Bell Lightbox & Ad Hoc Toronto, Film Studies Centre, University of Chicago, Block Cinema, Northwestern University, Visions, Cinémathèque québécoise, Montréal
Contact (with The Thames Submarine). Surfeit II. Café Oto, London.
2023. Beyond Beck Road II: Underline. Open House Festival. London.
Contact: Dwelling, Frieze: No 9 Cork Street.
Contact (with The Thames Submarine). Surfeit I. Café Oto, London.
2022. Beyond Beck Road I: Underline. Open House Festival. London.
2021-22. Contact: Film Talks: Live. 8 events at Lux, Iklectcik, Close Up & Café Oto, London.
2017. Contact: Pairs. Deport, London.
Contact: Holding Space. The Brick Cube, London.
2016. Contact: A Festival of New Experimental Film & Video. Apiary Studios, London.
2013–14. Assembly: A Survey of Recent Artist Film & Video in Britain 2008-13. Tate Britain, London.
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