Joanna Byrne
Joanna (she/her) is a Leeds/Bradford-based artist filmmaker and writer who takes material, performative, collaborative and sustainable approaches to creating still and moving photographic images. She works with analogue film in a tactile way, processing and editing by hand, often incorporating physical traces of her body into the work. Joanna is interested in the therapeutic potential of experimental collaborative film practices: connecting us as individuals to each other, to communities, shared histories and stories, the wider world and Planet Earth. In 2022 she was awarded an a-n artist’s bursary to develop new sustainable practices in analogue filmmaking and photography.
Joanna Byrne
Joanna (she/her) is a Leeds/Bradford-based artist filmmaker and writer who takes material, performative, collaborative and sustainable approaches to creating still and moving photographic images. She works with analogue film in a tactile way, processing and editing by hand, often incorporating physical traces of her body into the work. Joanna is interested in the therapeutic potential of experimental collaborative film practices: connecting us as individuals to each other, to communities, shared histories and stories, the wider world and Planet Earth. In 2022 she was awarded an a-n artist’s bursary to develop new sustainable practices in analogue filmmaking and photography.
Untitled (SE139159)
Unique analogue film collage housed in custom lightbox
60cm x 60 cm
Analogue film collage made in collaboration with the Yorkshire landscape and sunlight, using locally foraged plants from Northcliffe Park, Shipley: a green lung in the otherwise air-polluted area where I live. It was created using two sustainable camera-less filmmaking techniques: the cyanotype - adapted for use with recycled celluloid; and phytography, an eco-film process that uses the natural chemical compounds in plants to print onto film. Both create unique, painterly photographic images which oscillate between figuration and abstraction. The film collage is also viewable as a unique piece of artist’s moving image, made up of 1,149 individual frames. This digital animation is included as part of the piece (scan QR code to preview the film).
