Since graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, I have informed my artistic practice by working within the film industry - on high profile projects such as: World War Z, Gravity, Edge of Tomorrow, Maleficent, David Attenborough's Natural History Museum Alive in 3D, Burberry Body holographic installation exhibited at London Fashion Week 2011 and Another Magazine's 'Movement' film series - as a Digital Camera Technician. Inspired by my extensive experience and technical understanding, I have become fascinated with the nature of the cameras gaze and use new film technologies - such as digital high-speed filming and holographic film projection - to create large cinematic film installations that seek to both engage and seduce my audience.
I am inspired by the work of the film theorist, Tom Gunning, who likened the early cinema to that of a ‘Cinema of Attractions’, in which the projected image exists as pure spectacle, solicits the audiences voyeuristic gaze and encourages their curiosity. In this context, the cinema screen is a theatrical space of pure exhibition and it is within the projected film plane - especially now that we are increasingly using digital film formats - that a tension is realised between the material and the immaterial. This is one of the key elements that my work aims to explore.
While my films draw upon the traditional cinematic visual language used within mainstream cinema, they also have a surreal and haunting quality. I like to find the beautiful and then draw out an element of the ‘ugly’ from within, to create a ‘disturbingly beautiful’ aesthetic, in which I am free to explore more obscure subject areas. In particular, I am fascinated by the role and objectification of the female form within film, the nature of the cameras gaze, the paradoxical nature of cinema exhibition, and the desire it raises within the spellbound spectator.
Projects
- The (Un)Holy TrinityThe (Un)Holy Trinity Following on from her award-winning project, 'The Siren' - in which she examined the mythical female figure - Artist Laura Jean Healey now dives further into ancient legend to explore the biblical notion of the ‘fallen woman’. 'The (Un)Holy Trinity' draws inspiration from three legendary ‘unnatural women’: Lilith, Eve and Salome, who through their supposedly unnatural acts of defiance, aggression, or desire for autonomy, have been demonised throughout histor
- The SirenThere have always been stories told about the beautiful, alluring and ultimately dangerous Sirens who lured sailors to their untimely deaths. It has always been men who told stories of the Sirens and these cautionary tales were used to warn men of the dangers of the seductive female. The Siren, like her biblical counterpart Salome, became synonymous with the “femme fatale” and ultimately symbolises the female sex. She is simply a creation of man, merely a sexed being. She does not exist in h
- The Siren's Call‘The Siren’s Call’ is a triptych life size film installation. The three High Definition films were made in response to the original holographic film installation, ‘The Siren’. Each of the three underwater film sequences use the clichéd image of a mythical temptress to explore the role of film in seducing the audience. In playing to this preconceived perception, the films transcend the sexual clichés attached to the perception of the Siren and questions who really is in control of the gaze: th
Skills
- Film
- Visual Arts
- Art Direction
- Digital Content
- Directing
- Short Films
- Cinematography
- Holographic Film Projection
- Film and Installation
- Artist Moving Image
- Film Development
- Concept Creation
- Film Producing
- Creative Producing
Education
BA(Hons) First Class Honours in Fine ArtCentral Saint Martins (UAL)
- London, United Kingdom
4D Path Way - Specialising in 16mm Film and Video Installation
Passed with First Class Honours
Pass with Merit in Foundation in Fine ArtChelsea College of Arts (UAL)
- London, United Kingdom
Specialising in Fine Art Painting and Mixed Media
Pass with Merit
Awards
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YICCA International Art Prize 20/21Yucca Studios
Shortlisted for International Art Prize 20/21. 'The (Un)Holy Trinity' (multichannel film installation) will be exhibited at the CMC (Centro Culturale Milano) as part of the group show to promote all 18 nominated artists.W
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Winter Pride Art AwardWinter Pride
Short Listed for the Winter Pride Art Award 2014+ Show more