My new short film, Deep Water which was partly funded thanks to a WEVAA bursary has had a busy few months having been selected for 3 exhibitions . This summer it was selected for the Black Swan Arts Open in Frome where it won the Digital Media prize. It was then selected for the 44AD Open in Bath and it can currently be seen at the RWA in Bristol until January ’25.

Deep Water is part of an ongoing series of art films and photographic essays exploring the scale and impact of the linear economic system on the planet. The project first started on a beach in Bangladesh in 1997.

Over the years, this project has involved photographing on board the world’s largest container ship, I have travelled to numerous ports, and visited the eventual graveyard for many of these ocean going giants in Chittagong in Bangladesh. The work produced has been show in galleries and film festivals in the UK, Italy, Czech Republic and Mexico.

Film still from Deep Water

Black Swan Arts Open 24

Private view, Black Swan Arts Open

Ship breakers, Chittagong in Bangladesh 1997 where the project first started.

I am super excited to be one of the 14 artists to have been awarded a West of England Visual Arts Alliance (WEVAA) bursary to develop new work.

The bursary will allow me to research and develop up to 3 new art films exploring consumerism and linear economics. Some of the results of this support will be posted on this website and on Instagram www.instagram.com/nigelgoldsmith

Film stills from vertical art video partially funded by WEVAA bursary

Following its success in winning the Zealous digital art prize and screenings at the Flatpack Film Festival in Birmingham and Sea Change in Edinburgh, Terminal is now heading to Yorkshire for the 2021 Leeds International Film Festival in November. Leeds is the largest UK film festival outside of London and selection means the film will qualify for other upcoming events, (watch this space). Tickets for the screening can be purchased online

Automata 1V is currently touring European Film Festivals, last month it was screening in Rome, and in the next couple of weeks it will be showing at the Vertifilms Festival in Prague.