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Clive WalleyAlthough the greater part of Clive’s reputation is derived from his film-making the better part of his inspiration, even for films, is from painting. Between the production of the films mentioned above and during the main film-making period of his creative life, the 80’s and 90’s, he continued to make paintings and to show them. The films are a development from this interest in painting, to him more a way of continuing to paint, than a way of making films. To read about
and view Clive's recent gallery intsallations There also two
DVDs available, one being a selection of Clive's
films simply entitled Clive
Walley and the
other being a double DVD where
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As a result of his previous reputation with the Welsh Arts Council, Clive was asked to make a short film for S4C, the then new Welsh Channel 4. Y Rhaeadr is a five minute film about the making of a landscape painting. |
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After the modest success of the
Waterfall film it became possible to pitch
for more TV commissioned moving-paint films.
Channel 4 and S4C commissioned the Quartet
in 1987 and immediately the first film Prelude
won the Rank Award for Best Production on Film
at the Celtic Film Festival 1988. It was seen on Channel 4 and S4C as a full length TV programme scheduled for a wide viewing public |
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With
the help of his engineering knowledge Clive
designed and built a new-concept 4D multi-plane
rostrum rig which introduced the effect of
infinite forward and reverse camera moves.
And Now You (1991) was the first
film to be made on it, although there was
still not enough money to finish the camera
traverses on the top before starting work.
Consequently the film makes emphatic use
of the one effect which was operational,
the one for which the new system was intended
anyway, moving endlessly into and out of, the
painted “tunnels” in front of the camera. For its originality this new machine earned
its own individual award. An Invention in
Industry Award from the National Eisteddfod
of Wales was granted for the rig in 1990. |
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Finished in 1994 'Divertimenti'
is a unique and beautiful sequence of films
where the viewer is taken on a journey into
a 4-dimensional abstract and painterly world,
where animated brush strokes dance and dart
across levels of glass in perfect synchrony
with the music. Mostly appearing as abstract
shapes and lines, occasionally the paint
takes on other forms, metamorphosing into
human and pictorial images. The Divertimenti
is a sequence of six three minute films made
in three intensive years of work with six
different composers. A new composer for each
film helped to ensure the variety in the
series which is now its hall mark. The “rig” had now got its camera moves fitted to the top and the series is also an exploration of the creative domain that opened up. “The Divertimenti” has been widely exhibited in festivals, galleries and on TV. The films were first seen on TV embedded
in a BBC2 program called Space, Time and
Paint in 1998, which included footage about
the process used to make them. 'The Divertimenti' collected a total of six
awards, including the Experimental Film Award
at Ottawa. The Divertimenti and the artist are the subject
of an extended interview with David Erhlich
in Animation Journal March 1999 USA. In the same year (1995) the Irish Animation Festival hosted a Clive Walley Retrospective. |
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Using the methods developed
in the making of the Divertimenti (plus back-projection),
Clive made a new ambitious piece for BBC2 and
S4C. It was about the use the modern spirit
might make of the seventy five year old news
from quantum physics, and for the first time
made use of specially shot live action material
back projected into the multi-plane image. In March1998. National Film Theatre. Light of Uncertainty, won Best Film at the Cutting Edge at the British Animation Awards. It was nominated for an award at Bradford Animation Festival in the category “Professional” and appeared at several prestigious International film festivals where the previous work was already well known. It has appeared twice on
BBC2; once on its own, and once as part of
“5 films by Clive Walley” along with four
of the previous series. It won Best Animation at Avanca, Portugal. It is the subject of a long article in Filmwaves
No.6. In 2005-6 the film and some of the associated art-work was included in “Space-Tricks” – Zurich and tour. |
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| An Art commission for the Mostyn Art Gallery for tour to Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff. An interactive digital Concept-art piece, it was included in a show called “A470”. The visitor to the show could drive themselves down the whole length of the A470, the main route down the length of Wales, at any speed up to that of the RAF jets which are often seen in the skies over Wales. It was immensely popular at both venues arousing much interest in the public and media. It was revived in order to be featured in the exhibition area of the Millenium Centre in Cardiff as part of its opening festivities. |
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A four minute film, in which the landscape is inhabited by the imagination. Clive always planned to make a trilogy of films, with a classical musical form, which dealt with the spiritual implications of the major intellectual movements of the present time, as identified by him. Light of Uncertainty was the first of these three pieces and indicated his sense of the serious work animation-as-art might aspire to. Unfortunately this “last project” was never realised in its proper form, and this Adagio is a replacement for a more ambitious film would have taken the central place in the final trilogy. It uses the medium of moving paint to suggest the thought processes of the viewer contemplating Nature. |
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Tea Cup |
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~ excerpt ~ “The Teacup” a solo exhibition in “Five”, a new gallery near Brick Lane in London, which showed one of a set of works made by the artist for distribution on DVD or for show in art spaces. It is called “The Teacup – sixteen watercolours on Bockingford paper”. It brings extra dimensionality to the traditional medium of watercolour painting by a simple engagement with digital techniques. The exhibition also included a retrospective of work made by the artist for TV and the international festival circuit over the previous 10 years. |
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'Sephora' |
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| TV Commercial for Procter & Gamble – Silver World medal, New York Film & Television Advertising Awards and a nominee at the British Animation Awards for Best Advert 2000. | TV
Commercial for the Aim Investment Fund |
TV advert for major USA retailer |
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Clive Walley ~ DVDs
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