Tim Macmillan Touring Project

Tim Macmillan's practice encompasses photography, film installation and television production. The artist produces still and moving tableaux that capture time and space using technical and conceptual innovation. Born in Portland Oregon, Macmillan now lives and works in Bath. He studied at Bath Academy of Art and the Slade School of Art. Macmillan developed his sculptural time-slice cameras while at the Slade, and later successfully developed the technique commercially as a way of sustaining his own use of the medium and related still-image work. His work has been shown in film and video festivals across the world.

Picture This commissioned Island initially for a site-specific installation at Lundy Island. The work is a non-narrative seascape that captures the dramatic tides and weathers that make up Lundy Island's coastline. The artist constructed a five metre long camera constructed which takes 35 mm motion image film and produces a 90 degree circular tracking shot - this makes the viewer experience a move through space but time is frozen.

Shot on Lundy, the film draws on art historical landscape themes and it was funded by South West Media Development Agency and South West Arts. Picture This published an Arts Council of England funded publication with texts by Mike Gray, Josephine Lanyon and Clare Manchester and produced an award-winning documentary about Macmillan for HTV, now used for educational purposes. Picture This subsequently toured combinations of Island, Dead Horse (which won, very unusually for moving image work, a Citibank Photography Prize nomination in 2000) and Sleep to galleries across the UK and to festivals abroad.

Exhibition:
9 July – 26 July 2000, Lundy Island, Devon
19 October 2000, LUX Centre, London
13 January – 17 February 2001, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool
23 March – 24 April 2001, Porto Capital of Culture, Portugal
28 April – 24 June 2001, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle
11 May – 22 August 2001, The Lowry, Manchester, Island
24 November 2001 – 6 January 2002, Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne
9 February – 13 April 2002, Wolverhampton City Art Gallery & Museum
13 April – 30 June 2002, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, Wiltshire
26 – 27 April 2002, Dichotomie festival, Schauspielhaus Vienna, Austria
14 - 15 May 2003, Light Image Reality festival, Aegina Academy, Greece
5 - 6 September 2003, Maths in Motion festival, Künstlerhauskino, Vienna, Austria