Artist’s statement
Emma Frayne-Ford's artistic style depends upon the combination of specific techniques and methods, and the artist employs a combination of super 8 and digital 16mm cameras to capture their footage. This blend of analogue and digital technology allows for a unique visual style that is both nostalgic and contemporary. Additionally, using these cameras allows this artist to experiment with different textures, colours, and tones in their work. This unique artist can utilise various techniques and methods to achieve their artistic vision. Their current and past works have focused on the ideas behind the fundamental human experiences with Beautiful, Lens and Time Loss Motion projects. Gallery of Indiscernibles, Blue Ocean/Glas Cefnfor, and Blu 8mm Memories focus on the shifting landscape of the environment in the UK and Europe. Emma is a neurodivergent artist; whose brain processes information differently from the majority, emerging from the Covid-19 pandemic. There is an opportunity to take stock and rethink the systems to support artists and the global disabled community, ensuring the progression towards that level playing field is inclusive and accessible.
Biography
Emma Frayne-Ford is a Welsh-born Video Artist who grew up in the 80/90s when the UK politics of Thatcherism brought the most significant civil and social unrest and violent protest that the UK has seen in modern times. After nearly 40 years of neoliberalism, the exact solutions are still offered to the same problems, with the same intended victims. Emma gained a Masters's Degree in filmmaking, where she continued to develop her visual skills by exploring the methods and use of analogue formats within experimental video and moving images. This has given her work the different textures, colours, and tones that capture the landscape of political and cultural representation as people have become powerless and politics faceless. We are all forced to watch as eco-politics wage war on our local communities, regions, and countries and devour our environment and Planet. Emma believes we are not as powerless as we feel; we all have the power to press record and document what is happening on our doorsteps.
