Anna Lucas: Adrift

Anna Lucas is an artist/filmmaker who lives and works in London and is increasingly recognised for her film and video installations that transform daily experience into epic drama or sensual intimacy. In 2002/3 Lucas was Henry Moore Fellow at Spike Island where she presented the installation Bud that subsequently toured to Melbourne Biennale.

Adrift is a major film installation commissioned by Picture This and Chisenhale Gallery in London and funded by Film London. Focusing on travel, displacement and migration, this four-screen installation comprises a series of cinematic interludes that are inflected with reverie and tenderness, disquiet and departure. Visitors move through an assembly of Super-8 films shot by Lucas around the world. Images of movement and passage form a thread throughout the installation: ports, ferries and embarkation points are soundtracked by field recordings of public gatherings, overheard music, birds and wind.

Exhibition:
4 February to 14 March 2004

Chisenhale Gallery, London

19 February to 17 April 2005

Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea