https://danguthrie.net Dan Guthrie Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:03:33 +0000 https://danguthrie.net en http://danguthrie.net/Empty-Alcove-Rotting-Figure Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:03:33 +0000 Dan Guthrie 454673 Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, 2025 <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/67e693a2bc5c8c3983355bd58765e1054ea7661050d2329255e1f87f04191de3/Dan-Guthrie-Chisenhale-Gallery_1.png" data-mid="1410294" border="0" />Image description: A large white walled gallery with a white latticed ceiling, filled with natural light that streams in from a row of multi-pane windows. On the left of the gallery, an arc of four black chairs face a vertical TV screen mounted on a black floor to ceiling beam that shows the top of a stone building against a cloudy blue sky. In the opposite corner on the right of the gallery, an imposing black wooden box, three and a half metres high and seven metres long, takes up space, casting shadows behind it. Image credit:&nbsp;Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure&nbsp;installation view. Courtesy Chisenhale Gallery, London, photographer Andy Keate. Spike Island, Bristol 8 February — 11 May 2025 Chisenhale Gallery, London6 June — 24 August 2025Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure is a major new commission by artist Dan Guthrie. Working primarily with moving image, Guthrie’s practice explores representations and mis-representations of Black Britishness. By deliberately experimenting with form and language, Guthrie probes the limits of visual representation – questioning not only what is shown, but what remains unseen or unsayable on screen. This exploration encompasses the politics of visibility itself, asking how race, memory, and subjectivity are shaped by the act of looking. This new commission continues Guthrie’s long-standing engagement with the Blackboy Clock, an object of contested heritage publicly displayed in his hometown of Stroud, Gloucestershire. The clock, which incorporates a wooden blackamoor figure in its design, was originally assembled by a local watchmaker in 1774, during the height of the transatlantic slave trade. Relocated to a specially constructed alcove on the front of a former schoolhouse in 1844, the clock was restored in 1977 and 2004, and has remained a constant presence in Stroud throughout Guthrie’s life. Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure presents two videos that put forward the ‘radical un-conservation’ of the clock – a new theoretical concept proposed by Guthrie to describe the strategic acquisition of an object in order to destroy it. Across both videos, audio description and captions reject standardised, impersonal modes of description in favour of poetic interpretation and emotionally resonant dialogue – embedding access deeply into the aesthetic and political fabric of Guthrie’s commission. Central to this body of work are questions about what society chooses to memorialise and its methods for doing so. Alongside this exhibition, Guthrie has developed a new online platform – earf.info – documenting the clock’s timeline, from its historical origins to current debates over its future. Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure is commissioned and produced by Chisenhale Gallery, London and Spike Island, Bristol, with support from the Henry Moore Foundation.Click here to read more about the show on the Spike Island website.&nbsp; Click here to read more about the show on the Chisenhale Gallery website.&nbsp; ● ●&nbsp;● Empty Alcove, 2025Single channel video, stereo sound, 5 minutes <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/07a6faccc0f66dfefdcd67b2621f5ca86d778fd45870e12356a904088cbf3ca8/Dan-Guthrie-Chisenhale-Gallery-Empty-Alcove.png" data-mid="1413978" border="0" /><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/8c0e0f890aa99f048e840a79736af9fb5ee388dd177efc02a519769429d65a50/Dan-Guthrie-Chisenhale-Gallery--Empty-Alcove_1.png" data-mid="1413985" border="0" /><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/79f4d5372644d45d8bb46c9a5f7600b484f186b0aebd70d53b0b3b08d10eb03b/Dan-Guthrie-Chisenhale-Gallery--Empty-Alcove_2.png" data-mid="1413986" border="0" />Image descriptions: Three different views of the same installation. An arc of four black chairs face a vertical TV screen that’s mounted on a&nbsp;floor to ceiling beam positioned in front of a row of large multi-pane windows in a white walled gallery. The screen shows the top of stone building with a pointed roof, and centre of the frame is an empty alcove.&nbsp; Image credits: Empty Alcove (2025) installation views, courtesy Chisenhale Gallery, London, photographer Andy Keate.&nbsp; Empty Alcove is a proposal for a potential future; what if the Blackboy Clock figure was removed from public display? Framed within the entrance to the gallery is a five minute static shot of the clock in-situ, accompanied by sounds of daily life in Stroud, with the offensive figure digitally erased. Credits Lead Artist: Dan Guthrie Camera Operator: Holly Antrum Sound Recordist and Sound Designer: Felix Taylor Colourist: Nielsan Bohl Producers: Olivia Aherne for Chisenhale Gallery, Carmen Juliá for Spike Island Assistant Producer: Oscar Abdulla for Chisenhale Gallery Captioning: Carefuffle Collective and Dan Guthrie Audio Description: SoundScribe and Dan GuthrieClick here to read the Empty Alcove captioning transcript. Click here to read the Empty Alcove audio description transcript. As part of the public programme for this touring commission, Empty Alcove was shown by itself at SVA, Stroud, from 9 May – 17 May 2025, a short walk away from the Blackboy Clock’s current location. More information about this presentation is available here. ● ●&nbsp;● Rotting Figure, 2025Single channel video, stereo sound, 5 minutes <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/d325f832d5fdc135c4ab3ac356269edb6352a2cb89602e160b1451136ae8c248/Dan-Guthrie-Rotting-Figure-Chisenhale-Gallery_1.png" data-mid="1410362" border="0" /><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/97d1e74b5daf5b723c0f75b91dd09d079b0cb114ef6204fbe273d93ccdc3d7ab/Dan-Guthrie-Chisenhale-Gallery-Rotting-Figure.png" data-mid="1413977" border="0" /><img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c0463930907a54b15a20235a9244f4cda436a5f02eb9bb8b98163de547189d6d/Dan-Guthrie-Rotting-Figure-Chisenhale-Gallery_3.png" data-mid="1410363" border="0" />Image descriptions: Three different views of the same installation. Image 1 shows an imposing black wooden box, three and a half metres high and seven metres long, positioned in a corner of the gallery. Image 2 shows the dark carpeted interior of the box, with four chairs&nbsp;arranged in a grid facing a vertical TV screen mounted on the far wall; on the screen is an image of a figure tightly wrapped in black plastic and red tape.&nbsp;Image 3 shows both the inside of the box, this time with a computer generated heap of black shiny plastic on the screen, and the outside of the box, with the other installation seen side on at the other end of the gallery.&nbsp; Image credits: Rotting Figure&nbsp;(2025) installation views, courtesy Chisenhale Gallery, London, photographer Andy Keate.&nbsp; Rotting Figure is a proposal for an impossible future; what if the Blackboy Clock figure was destroyed? Inside a monolithic black box, a CG rendering of the figure slowly collapses; creaks and cracks echo out whilst the offensive imagery is deliberately obscured.&nbsp; CreditsLead Artist: Dan Guthrie CG Designer and Animator: Salvi De Sena Sound Recordist and Sound Designer: Felix Taylor Producers: Olivia Aherne for Chisenhale Gallery, Carmen Juliá for Spike Island Assistant Producer: Oscar Abdulla for Chisenhale Gallery Captioning: Carefuffle Collective and Dan Guthrie Audio Description: SoundScribe and Dan GuthrieClick here to read the Rotting Figure&nbsp;captioning transcript. Click here to read the Rotting Figure audio description transcript. ● ●&nbsp;● earf.info, 2025 – ongoingWebsite <img width="3024" height="1898" width_o="3024" height_o="1898" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/436190290c7e55109ef15d3085195f574cac9fa7f5c827754b7e5dbe649f8a12/Screenshot-2025-11-13-at-15.39.54.png" data-mid="1424344" border="0" /><img width="3024" height="1898" width_o="3024" height_o="1898" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/1422eb973742284b696a6b50ea190e24dea96b7a89883f3a3cbb5e3ff4ca61ef/Screenshot-2025-11-13-at-15.41.22.png" data-mid="1424346" border="0" /><img width="3024" height="1898" width_o="3024" height_o="1898" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/443e06c01d69173c03e5b8ba62495f06541bccac8c71e9f24bbdff3f245cdc7e/Screenshot-2025-11-13-at-15.42.41.png" data-mid="1424349" border="0" /> Image descriptions: Screenshots of the website earf.info. The website is largely made of up black and red text on an off-white background, with the words ‘EMPTY ALCOVE / ROTTING FIGURE’ in capital letters is in the top left corner of each page. Image 1 is a screenshot of the home page, which features a written overview of the website and the commission. Image 2 is a screenshot of a timeline entry – ‘15 August 1974: Blackboy Clock is removed for restoration’ – overlaid over a series of headines sorted in ascending chronological order. Image 3 is a screenshot of the audio description transcript for Empty Alcove, which shows a dialogue that alternates between left aligned black text from the audio describer’s perspective and right aligned red text from the artist’s perspective.&nbsp; Image credit: earf.info (2025 – ongoing) documentation. &nbsp;earf.info is online platform that includes research related to Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure. This includes an interactive timeline with citations that traces the ongoing history of the Blackboy Clock and wider contested heritage debates in the UK, a journal with texts authored by Guthrie and other contributors, access materials and a self-care guide related to the commissioned artworks, and a list of events that were programmed alongside the exhibitions.&nbsp;earf.info will continue to be updated with developments in the ongoing history of the Blackboy Clock after the run of the exhibitions at Spike Island and Chisenhale Gallery in 2025.&nbsp; Click here to visit earf.info and explore the website’s resources. Credits Lead Artist: Dan Guthrie Editors: Olivia Aherne, Carmen Juliá Assistant Editors: Rachel Be-Yun Wang and Zhejun Gao Editorial Support: Phoebe Cripps Research Assistants: Holly Antrum, Tommy Madison Contributors:&nbsp;Tendai Mutambu, Lola Olufemi, Tatenda Shamiso, Vanessa Onwuemezi Web Development: An Endless Supply With the generous support of Frank Bowling and Rachel Scott. ● ●&nbsp;● Texts, Reviews and PressTour Diary I – V Dan Guthrie, earf.info, January – September 2025 Black Automata and Racial Machinations Tendai Mutambu, earf.info, February 2025 ‘Let it rot’: artist says Stroud’s ‘racist’ blackboy clock should be destroyed Lanre Bakare, The Guardian, February 2025 The death of Stroud’s racist clock Harriet Lloyd-Smith, Plaster, February 2025 Dan Guthrie: Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure Daniel Culpan, Art Monthly, March 2025LET'S PUT IT PLAINLY FOR ONCE Lola Olufemi, earf.info, April 2025Danielle Dean and Dan Guthrie’s Filmic Counter-NarrativesVanessa Peterson, Frieze, April 2025The Best Shows to See Across the UK This SpringCritic’s Guide,&nbsp;Frieze, April 2025 This Summer’s Must-See Contemporary Art Exhibitions In London, And Beyond Mahoro Seward, British Vogue, June 2025 Broken, rotting, under the tarp Tatenda Shamiso, earf.info, June 2025Dan Guthrie, Chisenhale Gallery, exhibition review: ‘Fantasy of erasure’Sarah Birch, Hackney Citizen, June 2025 Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure Zarina Muhammad, The White Pube, June 2025Consultation: What Should Exist? Vanessa Onwuemezi, earf.info, August 2025 Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure Clare Carolin, Moving Image Review &amp; Art Journal, November 2025● ● ● Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure is available for sale in an edition of 5 + 2 AP. Pricing will increase as the work sells out. For more information about purchasing the work, please contact the artist directly at dan@danguthrie.net. ← Home Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, 2025 Image description: A large white walled gallery with a white latticed ceiling, filled with natural light that streams in from a... http://danguthrie.net/CV Thu, 27 Oct 2022 19:29:02 +0000 Dan Guthrie 432623 Dan Guthrie is an artist and writer whose practice explores representations and mis-representations of Blackness, questioning not only what is shown, but what remains unseen.Selected exhibitions and screenings include: DINAMO: Obscurity, IFFR, Rotterdam, 2026; Toward the Forest, Forma, London, 2025; CIRCA PRIZE 2025, CIRCA, London, 2025; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Spike Island, Bristol and Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2025 (solo); Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, London, 2024; Two Films, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne, 2023 (solo); Spirit Messages international touring programme, aemi, 2023 – 2024; Selected 13 UK touring programme, FLAMIN and videoclub, 2023; Year 3, Prismatic Ground, New York, 2023; 18th Forum Expanded, Berlinale, Berlin, 2023; and Right of Way, LUX, London, 2023. He is currently based between the UK and the Netherlands, and from 2026 to 2027 will be a resident artist at Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam. dan@danguthrie.net |&nbsp;instagram.com/danglefree ● ●&nbsp;● Solo exhibitions 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Chisenhale Gallery, London 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure, Spike Island, Bristol2023 – 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Two Films, Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne Selected group shows and screenings 2026&nbsp; &nbsp; DINAMO: Obscurity, IFFR, Rotterdam 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Toward the Forest, Forma, London 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; CIRCA PRIZE 2025, CIRCA, London 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, London 2023 – 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Spirit Messages international screening tour, aemi 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Selected 13 UK screening tour, FLAMIN / videoclub 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Year 3, Prismatic Ground, New York 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; 18th Forum Expanded, Berlinale2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Right of Way, LUX, London Selected press 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, The White Pube 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, Frieze 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure review, Art Monthly 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure feature, Plaster 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Empty Alcove / Rotting Figure feature, The Guardian 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Right of Way review, ArtReview 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Right of Way review, The Guardian 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; Blackboy Clock feature, The GuardianSelected writing 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Tour Diary I – V, earf.info 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; How to Sleep Faster 15 contributor, Arcadia Missa 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Right of Way opinion piece, The Guardian 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Going on a Bear Hunt, Art Monthly Selected talks and conversations 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; In conversation with Olamiju Fajemisin, Chisenhale Gallery, London 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; In conversation with Layla Gatens, The Goods Shed, Stroud 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Contested Heritage: A Discussion, St Cross College, Oxford 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; In conversation with Bolanle Tajudeen and Cleo Lake, Spike Island, Bristol 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Let’s talk public art, in the pub, Care Contractors, Basildon2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Occupied City Q&amp;A with Steve McQueen, ICA, LondonResidencies and programmes 2026 – 2027&nbsp; &nbsp; Residency, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam 2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Arts Foundation residency, Hawkwood, Stroud 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Interdisciplinary residency, Hospitalfield, Arbroath 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Statues for Memory summer school, Cast in Stone, Paris 2021 – 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Day School alternative art education programme, Bristol 2019 + 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Amplify residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridgeshire Awards and bursaries2024&nbsp; &nbsp; Visual Arts Award Shortlist, The Arts Foundation2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Artist Grant, DRABL 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Joanna Drew Travel Bursary, The Elephant Trust 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Michael O’Pray Prize, FVU / Art Monthly 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; November Grantee, Grand Plan 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; Time Space Money bursary, a-n 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; Artist Development Bursary, The Box Plymouth Project assistance2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Edward George: Black Atlas, The Warburg Institute, London Teaching and facilitation 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Tutorials, TOMA, Southend-on-Sea2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest lecturer, UWE, Bristol2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest lecturer, Bath Spa University, Bath2024 + 2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Visiting artist, Day School, Bristol2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest lecturer, National Film and Television School, Beaconsfield 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest lecturer, Bristol School of Art, London2022 – 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Co-instigator, LUX South West Critical Forum, online 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Guest lecturer, PILOT III - Rights, Care and Future, Autograph, London Film programming 2022 – 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Associate programmer, Berwick Film &amp; Media Arts Festival 2021 – 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Submissions viewer, Glasgow Short Film Festival2019 – 2021&nbsp; &nbsp; UK selection committee, London Short Film Festival2020&nbsp; &nbsp; No Fact of Blackness, London Short Film Festival Boards and juries2025&nbsp; &nbsp; Independent judge, Grand Plan 2022 – 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Community Taskforce member, Stroud District Council 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; International jury, Encounters Film Festival 2022 – 2023&nbsp; &nbsp; Trustee, Stroud Valleys Artspace 2021 – 2022&nbsp; &nbsp; Contested Heritage Review Panel member, Stroud District Council ← Home Dan Guthrie is an artist and writer whose practice explores representations and mis-representations of Blackness, questioning not only what is shown, but what... http://danguthrie.net/Dan-Guthrie Thu, 27 Oct 2022 18:56:21 +0000 Dan Guthrie 432620 <img width="1000" height="563" width_o="1000" height_o="563" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/752b3307693e982136a4c0ad9e2a667887c70dc66c9b007d33baf0314776311b/Dan-Guthrie-Piccadilly-Lights.png" data-mid="1429513" border="0" />Image description: The name Dan Guthrie in thick black capital letters on a bright white background lights up Piccadilly Circus at night, filling the entirety of the large curved screen that’s normally covered with a patchwork of adverts.Image credit: CIRCA Prize 2025, CIRCA, London, 2025 Current Resident Artist Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam2026 – 2027 earf.info 2025 – ongoing PastEmpty Alcove / Rotting Figure 2025 black strangers 2022 Coaley Peak (A Fragment) 2021 CV → Image description: The name Dan Guthrie in thick black capital letters on a bright white background lights up Piccadilly Circus at night, filling the entirety of... http://danguthrie.net/black-strangers Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:50:29 +0000 Dan Guthrie 431609 black strangers, 2022Single channel video, 8 minutes 13 seconds <img width="960" height="540" width_o="960" height_o="540" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/c9e499c342c7bac9ac1ad0707767ad22a2f21ef332bef5c20ca2a9dc0a58b9ba/black-strangers-still.jpeg" data-mid="1229715" border="0" />Image description: A piece of ragged black fabric draped over barbed wire, against a backdrop of out-of-focus dark forest greenery. Image credit: Still from black strangers, Dan Guthrie, 2022. <img width="2880" height="1620" width_o="2880" height_o="1620" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0ed45fcc3941ce0628de1a6056660b2bab8a0c0d396651bb87e98531fbb8f7d5/black-strangers--Dan-Guthrie--2022---still-2.jpeg" data-mid="1321288" border="0" />Image description: A pair of brown hands sorts through a pile of folded up eighteenth century documents on a black surface, all of them hand labeled with dates and locations.&nbsp; Image credit: Still from black strangers,&nbsp;Dan Guthrie,&nbsp;2022.&nbsp; After seeing him mentioned on a Bishop’s Transcript held in Gloucestershire Archives, Dan goes for a walk in the woods in search of Daniel, a man buried in Nympsfield on the 31st of December 1719 and described on the document as ‘a black stranger’. Whilst walking, Dan talks directly to Daniel, speculating about the parallels between him and his namesake and wrestling aloud with the problems that come with trying to read the archive at face value and fill in its gaps.black strangers was commissioned for&nbsp;Right of Way, a new feature-length programme that mixes stunning new artists’ commissions with historical archive films that give a bigger picture of questions of access and inclusion in the UK countryside. black strangers is distributed by LUX, please contact them or&nbsp;the artist directly at dan@danguthrie.net for more information●&nbsp;●&nbsp;● Selected screenings and exhibitions Right of Way UK screening tour, Independent Cinema Office, 2022 - 2023Right of Way exhibition, LUX, 2023 Haunting Ashton Court: An Evening of Performance, 2023 18th&nbsp;Forum Expanded, Berlinale, 2023Year 3, Prismatic Ground, 2023aemi presents: Voice Recognition, Docs Ireland, 2023Vanishing Traces, BIEFF, 2023Nothing Artificial, Encounters, 2023Selected 13 UK screening tour, FLAMIN / videoclub, 2023Two Films (solo exhibition), Devonshire Collective, 2023 - 2024Screening #33, Mascara Film Club, 2025Fieldwork on Film, Atlas Cinema, 2025DINAMO: Obscurity, IFFR, Rotterdam, 2026● ●&nbsp;● Texts and Reviews Right of Way Review Cath Clarke, The Guardian, September 2022 Right of Way Review Noo Saro-Wiwa, ArtReview, March 2023 black strangers Screening Notes Chrystel Oloukoi, Prismatic Ground, April 2023 Acting in Whispers (commissioned essay for Dan Guthrie: Two Films) Siavash Minoudakeh, Devonshire Collective, November 2023← Home black strangers, 2022Single channel video, 8 minutes 13 seconds Image description: A piece of ragged black fabric draped over barbed wire, against a backdrop of... http://danguthrie.net/Coaley-Peak-A-Fragment Tue, 04 Oct 2022 11:46:18 +0000 Dan Guthrie 431608 Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021Single channel video, 6 minutes 19 seconds <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/0373fa68baa6e6cdaba6bd0e19409850448dd556b2b2171e807e7f41b4308746/Coaley-Peak-A-Fragment--Dan-Guthrie--2021---still-1.jpeg" data-mid="1395655" border="0" />Image description: The phrase “A poignant and pivotal final shot” in quotation marks is superimposed in white sentence case text over an orange hued shot of a hand holding up a barely visible photograph against the countryside.&nbsp; Image credit: Still from Coaley Peak (A Fragment), Dan Guthrie, 2021. <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" src_o="https://cortex.persona.co/t/original/i/fd5817e02017ed7984b4cdff8e3a25c1c214a7dcfb95abee3c58f524cfafe5c0/Coaley-Peak-A-Fragment--Dan-Guthrie--2021---still-2.jpeg" data-mid="1395656" border="0" />Image description: The phrase ‘I want to try and describe a photo to you’ in white text is superimposed over a shot of blurry dark green streaks against a black background. Image credit: Still from Coaley Peak (A Fragment), Dan Guthrie, 2021. Selected by Exeter Phoenix for their 2021 Artists’ Moving Image commission, Dan’s idea was to make a film about Blackness and belonging in the English countryside, taking a family photo of some of his relatives at the Gloucestershire viewpoint Coaley Peak as a starting point. Whilst making the film, something happened. Coaley Peak (A Fragment) is self-distributed, please contact the artist directly at dan@danguthrie.net for more information. glider.mov, an epilogue of sorts to Coaley Peak (A Fragment) screened on Piccadilly Lights in September 2025 as part of CIRCA PRIZE 2025 and is viewable here. An accompanying print is on sale as part of a fundraiser for Palestine&nbsp;here, with all profits going to Gaza Soup Kitchen.&nbsp; ● ●&nbsp;●Selected screenings and exhibitions Commissions Premiere, Exeter Phoenix, 2022 Short Film Programme, Whitstable Biennale, 2022Day School: Stuff Done, St Anne’s House, 2022 Haunting Ashton Court: Reclaiming Forgotten Histories, 2022 Visions in the Nunnery, Bow Arts, 2022 Year 3, Prismatic Ground, 2023 Spirit Messages international screening tour, aemi, 2023 - 2024Two Films (solo exhibition), Devonshire Collective, 2023 - 2024Free to Forage, T A P E Collective x Grand Union, 2024Absent Forces, Open City Documentary Festival, 2024Are The Stones Standing Still, Staffordshire St, 2024Fieldwork on Film, Atlas Cinema, 2025Toward The Forest,&nbsp;Forma, 2025● ●&nbsp;● Texts Short Film Programme Screening NotesJas Dhillon, Whitstable Biennale, June 2022Acting in Whispers (commissioned essay for Dan Guthrie: Two Films) Siavash Minoudakeh, Devonshire Collective, November 2023 Moth in Relay (commissioned essay for Spirit Messages touring programme) Leah Reynolds, aemi, March 2024 ← Home Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021Single channel video, 6 minutes 19 seconds Image description: The phrase “A poignant and pivotal final shot” in quotation marks...