Moving Image Commission
Every year Bupa Great North Run Culture awards 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.
The Bupa Great North Run has a long history of involvement with the moving image, with spectators around the country tuning in to the BBC, focusing on the North East, to watch the event. This huge sporting and cultural phenomenon is one of the most watched televised sporting events. Attracting elite international runners, celebrity runners, athletes and fun-runners, the Bupa Great North Run is unique in that it creates a special day for a mass audience – a highly visible day for people, including families, tourists and sports enthusiasts, to enjoy for free.
The selection panel for the 2011 Moving Image Commission was:
Beth Bate, Director of Great North Run Culture
Alison Clark-Jenkins, Director of Arts & Development, Arts Council England (NE)
Simon Pope, artist
Godfrey Worsdale, Director, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
David Blandy is the winner of the 2011 Great North Run Moving Image Commission. His new piece, which will focus on runners lip-syncing to their favourite songs whilst training for the event, will be featured as part of Bupa Great North Run Culture’s 2011 programme.
Blandy is an artist and film-maker based in London. He was the winner of the 2010 Times/South Bank Breakthrough Award and has had recent solo exhibitions at 176 Project Space in London, Baltic in Gateshead and Spike Island in Bristol. He is represented by Seventeen Gallery.
Click here to visit David Blandy's website.
