Live film performance - Interruptions, Holden Gallery (2019)
Jenny Baines is an artist whose practice explores the relationship between the body, screen and space. Working predominantly with 16mm film, she performs repeated, often absurd actions for the camera, pushing the limitations of the mechanism and her own physical endurance. These ‘action films’ take the form of installations, screenings and performances that are exhibited in galleries and screenings internationally.
Selected Exhibitions & Screenings
2022: 16mm Visions: Celluloid Now, Chicago Underline, Beyond Beck Road, London Open House Festival Film Talks: Live, Iklectik, London. 2021: Fields of View, London. 2020: Correspondence/Correspondance, Videographe Montreal & Holden Gallery Manchester XVIIX programme, London & online 2019: ByBeckRoad, London Open House. Interruptions, Holden Gallery Manchester 2018: Cinema Paradiso, Artist Film Weekender, HOME, Manchester Field & Frame, Mono No Aware, New York Matters of Being, Museo Nitsch, Naples 2017: Strangloscope International Experimental Film Festival, Florianopolis, Brazil Analogue Recurring, London Action films, Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro Muscle Memory, Kunstraum Bethanien, Berlin 2016: Field & Frame, Close-Up Film Centre, London Gorman Arts Centre, Canberra Contact Festival of Experimental Film and Video, Apiary Studios, London 2015: Motion in Form, Slade Research Centre, London Film Doubled Forever Changes, The Dream that Kicks, Norsk Filminstitutt, Oslo How to Do Things with Film, Holden Gallery, Manchester 100' III, Jerwood Gallery, Hastings London Short Film Festival, ICA, London 2014: Screenscapes, Nicosia Double Vision: Analogue Recurring, London Oriel Davies Open, Oriel Davies Gallery Screenscapes, Apiary Studios, London. 2013: Attempts at Elevation, Motion in Form I, Hastings 100 foot I, Milton Keynes Gallery & Mono No Aware, New York New 16mm film from UK Artists, Copenhagen film festival, Denmark 2012: Oktober Filmfest, Ritz Cinema, Vaasa, Finland Solo, Electro Studios, St Leonards S1 Salon, Sheffield – curated by Lisa Le Feuvre & Ben Rivers 2011: International Video Art Festival, Bulgaria Guest Projects, London 2010: Public Screens, Stavanger, Norway Whitstable Biennial, Whitstable, Kent 2009< Creekside Open, curated by Mark Wallinger & Jenny Lomax, London 10th International Istanbul Biennial LDNNYC, Bowery, New York Expodium, Utrecht, Holland TwentyOne, Canary Wharf, London Artfutures 2003, London Jenny Baines, Raster Gallery, Warsaw, Poland DOM Polski, Raster Gallery, Bydgoszcz Bienialle, Poland
Education
Practice-led PhD Fine Art, Manchester School of Art (2015) MFA Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, London (2006) Postgraduate Scholarship Fine Art, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland (1999) BA(Hons) Fine Art, Sheffield Hallam University (1997)
Awards/Bursaries/Residencies
Developing Your Creative Practice, Arts Council England (2021) Shortlisted for ACME, Firestation residency (2015) Arts Council England support for solo exhibition (2013) Arts & Humanities Research Council (2011-2014) Artist in Residence, Platform, Vaasa, Finland (2010) Artist in Residence, Kingston University (2010) Shortlisted for Adrian Carruthers Award, ACME (2006). Duveen Bursary (Slade School of Art) (2006) Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust (2005) Sir Richard Stapley Educational Trust (2005) Pocock Award (2004) British Council Artists Travel Grant (2002) Polish Cultural Institute Scholarship (1998)