Stuart Croft
Encyclopedia
Stuart Croft is an artist
/ filmmaker. He attended Chelsea College of Art
in London
, graduating with an MA
in 1998. His work has since been shown widely in the United Kingdom
, Europe
and the United States
.
Croft writes and directs dialogue-based, character-driven films that are shown in art galleries, as installations
or single-screen projections. The work uses the illusion in film narrative to investigate the fleetingness and impossibility to grasp time and reality as well as to ask what possibilities there are for co-opting the languages of cinema and fiction into the contemporary art space.
Croft's work has been reviewed by Time Out London, The Guardian
, Artforum
, i-D
, Art Monthly
, Metro
, Kultureflash, Contemporary and many others. Various institutions have held retrospective screenings of his work including FACT, Liverpool
, the Galleria Civica di Modena
, Italy
and MuKHA_Media, Antwerp. He is currently a tutor at the Royal College of Art
in London.
Artist
An artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
/ filmmaker. He attended Chelsea College of Art
Chelsea College of Art and Design
Chelsea College of Art and Design, the erstwhile Chelsea School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London, and is a leading British art and design institution with an international reputation...
in London
London
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, graduating with an MA
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
in 1998. His work has since been shown widely in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, Europe
Europe
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and the United States
United States
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.
Croft writes and directs dialogue-based, character-driven films that are shown in art galleries, as installations
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
or single-screen projections. The work uses the illusion in film narrative to investigate the fleetingness and impossibility to grasp time and reality as well as to ask what possibilities there are for co-opting the languages of cinema and fiction into the contemporary art space.
Croft's work has been reviewed by Time Out London, The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
, Artforum
Artforum
Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...
, i-D
I-D
i-D is a British magazine dedicated to fashion, music, art and youth culture. i-D was founded by designer and former Vogue art director Terry Jones in 1980. The first issue was published in the form of a hand-stapled fanzine with text produced on a typewriter...
, Art Monthly
Art Monthly
Art Monthly is a magazine of contemporary art founded in 1976 by Jack Wendler and Peter Townsend. It is based in London and has an international scope, although its main focus is on British art...
, Metro
Metro (Associated Metro Limited)
Metro is a free daily newspaper in the United Kingdom published by Associated Newspapers Ltd . It is available from Monday to Friday each week on many public transport services across the United Kingdom.-History:The paper was launched in London in 1999, and can now be found in 14 UK urban centres...
, Kultureflash, Contemporary and many others. Various institutions have held retrospective screenings of his work including FACT, Liverpool
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
, the Galleria Civica di Modena
Modena
Modena is a city and comune on the south side of the Po Valley, in the Province of Modena in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy....
, Italy
Italy
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and MuKHA_Media, Antwerp. He is currently a tutor at the Royal College of Art
Royal College of Art
The Royal College of Art is an art school located in London, United Kingdom. It is the world’s only wholly postgraduate university of art and design, offering the degrees of Master of Arts , Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy...
in London.
Filmography
- Comma 39 (2011)
- Palace (2011)
- The Stag Without a Heart (2010)
- The Death Waltz (2008)
- Drive In (2007)
- Century City (2006)
- Several Small Fires (2005)
- Df Dmb Blnd (2004)
- Hit (2003)
- Rococo 55 (2002)
- The Loss Leader (2000/2005)
- Loveless (2000)
- The Everlasting (1999)
- Dead Happy (1998)
- Point X (1998)
