We’re delighted to announce the winner of the 2015 Great North Run Moving Image Commission.
The selection panel, which included Beth Bate, Sacha Craddock, Fiona Crisp and Matthew Hearn, met with the shortlisted artists to hear more about their proposed work. The artists Layla Curtis, Graham Dolphin, Cecilia Stenbom and Kai Syng Tan presented a fascinating diversity of proposals and the panel decided to award the commission to...
Layla Curtis
Layla explains more about her proposal: "My new work will use the route of the Great North Run as a canvas onto which the marks of runners are drawn. These marks, created as the runners move across the cityscape, aren’t visible to the human eye. They are heat traces transferred from the runners’ bodies as they come into contact with their environment - body heat transferred through hand/arm/leg prints onto railings, walls, trees and pavements during warm up, running and resting leaves a temporary trace of the athlete’s activity. A thermal imaging camera is used to make visible these otherwise undetectable heat traces.
Find out more about Layla’s work at www.laylacurtis.com.
"The shortlist for the 2015 Great North Run Moving Image Commission was incredibly varied and the panel were extremely impressed with the quality of proposals. Layla's proposal was a clear stand-out however and her new film will create painterly yet scientific view of the event, charting an unseen relationship between runners and the architecture through which they move. We're really looking forward to filming with Layla on the day of the Bupa Great North Run and seeing her work develop over the coming year." Beth Bate, Director, Great North Run Culture
About the Moving Image Commission
Every year we award an artist or film-maker £30,000 to create a new moving image work in response to the world's largest half-marathon. The work is then presented as part of the following year's programme with an extract screened on the BBC as part of their live coverage of the Bupa Great North Run.
