Ian Nesbitt
I am a socially engaged artist, filmmaker, writer, and pedestrian based in Sheffield, UK. My work holds space for practicing togetherness, using modes of co-operation, conviviality and kinship to explore the question of what it means to live well with the unfolding consequences of a collapsing system. Working alongside citizens, communities and the more-than-human to consider and create spaces for exchange that are beyond the everyday, my work seeks to further emerging readings of these shared and entangled territories.
Historically, my projects have found form most often through the moving image, having made over 40 films, including three feature length films, straddling artist film and documentary forms. In recent years I have developed strands through emergent practices of listening, writing and pilgrimage.
Since 2005, I have been a founder member of a number of DIY arts and cultural organisations - One Thoresby Street, Annexinema, Out.Side.Film, Social Art Network, Radio Commons, Open Kitchen Social Club and the Mount Bermo Timbo Project.
My work has been platformed, commissioned and screened across Europe and the UK since 2005. During 2023 I was 'artist-in resonance' for Dancing On The Edge’s (Amsterdam) Year Of Listening programme, and I recently completed a commission for Gentle/Radical (Cardiff). I am currently collaborating with Ruth Levene, working towards an exhibition at Harris Museum (Preston) and finding time for my long form project ‘The Book Of Visions’.
