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Christopher Hall

Leeds
Christopher Hall is a visual artist and film archivist specialising in painting, print and audio-visual work.

Christopher Hall is a painter, film-maker, archivist, researcher and gardener.

His practice is interdisciplinary with a strong emphasis on collaboration and process. He was the winner of the Swinton Foundation Prize at New Lights 2013. Born near Birmingham, he lives and works in Leeds.

He takes a methodical and a collage-like approach to his work; utilising a range of media to explore and present his ideas. His approach, coupled with a strong desire to experiment and let chance play its part, means that his output is not easily defined or compartmentalised. Rather it can be seen to ‘hang together’ and the results have a consistency and coherence of their own.

His paintings are strewn with half-buried fragments, scrubbed out lines, appropriated material and allegorical references; the discipline and craft of oil painting finely balanced with a compulsion to experiment. The ‘failings’ and idiosyncrasies of his method are singularly embraced, encouraged even; they are allowed to change the course of the work and take it in new and unexpected directions.

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QUALIFICATIONS, EDUCATION & TRAINING

2023 Shipley College - Garden Design Level 2 Certificate

2015 Birkbeck, University of London - Media Archive Traineeship Certificate

2012-2015 Leeds Beckett University - German & Related Studies, Certificate with Distinction

1999-2002 Leeds Metropolitan University - Fine Art BA (Hons) Upper Second Class (2:1)

1998-1999 Walsall College of Art & Technology - B-Tec National Diploma Foundation Art and Design

1996-1998 The Streetly School - A-Levels (Art, English, Film Studies, General Studies)

1991-1996 The Streetly School - 9 x GCSEs (including Maths and English)

 

EMPLOYMENT

2021 - 2023 Film and Television Researcher (Clip Sales) ITV Archive/Global Distribution

2017 - 2021 Film and Media Archivist/Archive Librarian, ITV Archive

2016 - 2017 Media Manager (Catalogue Operations), Content Supply and Distribution/ITV Archive

2015 Yorkshire Film Archive (work placement)

2015 Film & Media Traineeship with Creative Skillset/Screen Skills/FOCAL International

2006 - 2015 Principal Information Assistant (Collections & Acquisitions), Leeds Metropolitan University

2005- 2007 Gallery Assistant, Leeds Metropolitan University Gallery & Studio Theatre

2004 - 2006 Senior Information Assistant, Leeds Metropolitan University Civic Quarter Library

2003 - 2004 Content Acquisition Consultant/Data Analyst, Cap Geminin Ernst & Young

 

COMPETITIONS, PRIZES & AWARDS

2015 Aesthetica Art Prize (longlist)

2014 Northern Artist’s Film Programme, Quays Culture, MEDIACITYUK (shortlisted)

2014 Threadneedle Art Prize (shortlisted)

2013 Swinton Foundation Award (winner)

2013 New Lights Art Prize (shortlisted)

 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2015 - Recording An Emotional Response: Christopher Hall | Janey Walklin,  The Bowery, Headingley

2014 - Leeds Revisited, East Street Arts & The Dortmunder Gruppe, BIG Gallery, Dortmund, Germany

2014 - Art in the Barn, Oakwell Hall, Birstall

2014 - New Lights Award Exhibition, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

2013 - Endlichkeit, Swinton Park Hotel, Swinton Park, Masham, Ripon

2013 - South Square Salon, South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford

2013 - Batley Open Exhibition, Batley Art Gallery

2013 - New Lights, Mercer Gallery, Harrogate

2013 - Lightworks 2013 - Film 'Sethos' (10:00 mins: Super 8 transferred to DV: 2013), Grimsby

2012 - Awakening, Left Bank Leeds, Cardigan Rd, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS6 1LJ

2012 - Lightworks 2012 - Film 'Composition' (5:00 mins: Super 8 transferred to DV: 2012), Grimsby Minster, Grimsby, Lincolnshire

2012 - Shadow and Light, Light Night, Leeds College of Art, Vernon Street, Leeds

2012 - South Square Salon 2012, South Square Gallery, Thornton, Bradford

2011 - Artisan Salon, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios

2011 - Full Circle Launch Exhibition, FullCircle Bespoke Design Emporium, Unit A, Aire Place Mills 141 Kirkstall Road

2011 - Jackson's Yard Spring Art Show 2011, Red Eric Studios, Westfield Road, Leeds

2010 - REAL-TIME, Leeds Central Library, Exhibition Space, 1st Floor Leeds Central Library

2007 - Artists Show 2007, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds

2007 - Leeds Art Fair 2007, The Light, Leeds

2006 - Leeds Art Fair 2006, The Light, Leeds

2005 - The Yorkshire Open, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds

2004 - Sound Light Movement, Leeds Met Gallery, Leeds

2003 - The Walsall Open, The New Art Gallery, Walsall

2002, Artists Show, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds

2002 - Peep - Fine Art Degree Show, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds

 

LIVE EVENT/PERFORMANCE

2012 - United Voids - Film 'Composition' (5:00 mins: Super 8 transferred to DV: 2012),', 1 in 12 Club, 21-23 Albion St, Bradford

2011 - Cinéma Corporel, Arch Z, Granary Wharf, Leeds

2010 - and...CUT!, The Common Place, Leeds

2010 - C I N E M A P O V E R A - 'The Waste Land' Expanded cinema performance, Art in unusual spaces, Former TK Maxx unit, Leeds Shopping Plaza

2009 - Trial by Fire screened as part of EXP24 presents RECLAIMED, Former Royal Park School, Leeds

2009 - Short Films of Chris Hall presented by Architects of Harmonic Rooms, Victoria Hotel, Leeds

2008 - EXP24 Re-form[at] screening, 'Transmission' multi projection performance, Victoria Hotel, Leeds 2008 - KiNETIKA! presents EXP24 - 'Reflections on the Brave New World' Live multi-projection durational piece using 16mm and Super 8, 22nd Leeds International Film Festival, Upstairs@the Adelphi, Leeds

2007 - KINETIKA! Super8 and 16mm Film Salon, Leeds International Film Festival, Upstairs at the Adelphi, Leeds

2007 - Ladyfest Leeds 2007 - Film 'Target:Market' (12mins: Super 8 transferred to VHS: 2007), Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds

2006 - EXP24 - Film 'colleague #1' (5:50 mins: VHS: 2006), Brudenell Social Club, Hyde Park, Leeds

2006 - Light Night presents EXP24, The Dark Arches, Granary Wharf, Leeds

2004 - Fuse Festival Fringe Night, Holy Trinity Church, Boar Lane, Leeds

 

WORKSHOPS

2009 - EXP24 Introduction to Super 8 Film Workshop, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, Leeds

2009 - EXP24-3 Day Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, Leeds University, Fine Art Department

2008 - EXP24 Camera-less 16mm Film Workshop , Leeds Central Library, 3rd Floor meeting room

2008 - EXP24 Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, Leeds

2008 - EXP24 Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, Leeds College of Art, Blenheim Walk

2008 - EXP24-Re-form[at] Introduction to Super 8 Workshop, East Street Arts, Patrick Studios

2008 - KiNETIKA! Super 8 Workshop, Leeds International Film Festival, The Wardrobe, Leeds

 

 

 

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