Siân Hutchings’ film Quietly Beneath understands painting as acoustic material, transcending its perception as flat or finite to treat it instead as a live material with its own agency. An interaction between figure and substance, in the form of two dancers and gesso (rabbit glue mixed with chalk used to prime canvases), Quietly Beneath considers painting for its voice, opening the cracks behind its seemingly mute surface – and in the process proposes the cinema as a space of listening as much as one of watching.
The Graduate Artist Residency is a partnership with Tyneside Cinema, Northumbria University and is supported by the NewBridge Project.
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Quietly Beneath, Still from film, 2020, Siân Hutchings
Quietly Beneath, Still from film, 2020, Siân Hutchings.
Quietly Beneath, Still from film, 2020, Siân Hutchings.