BEEF Members

Vicky Smith has been practicing experimental animation for 25 years. Recent exhibitions include: Primal (16mm, 10 ‘ 2016) Crossroads Film Festival, San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art (2017); Athens Ohio Film Festival (2017); Contact Film Festival (2016); Edinburgh Film Festival (2016); … Read More

I am a sound artist, composer and musician. In my practice based (AHRC funded) and recently completed doctorate at Oxford Brookes University the research into low frequency sound and vibration has led me to look at how we perceive these … Read More

Roderick Maclachlan (born 1974) lives and works in Bristol. Studied: BA(Hons) in Fine Art:Sculpture – Glasgow School of Art in 1996, MA Fine Art, University College Falmouth in 2008. Shows include Dissapearance, Enclave, London (2014)  Life’s An Illusion Love Is A Dream, … Read More

Matt Davies is an artist, field recordist and collector whose work is primary engaged with the act of listening and the exploration of chance based composition. Past projects include Piano Loop at Expo Leeds, research residency at Kitev in Oberhausen, … Read More

My interests lie in obsolescence and precarity as narrative devices to displace monologues and re-frame positions of research, production and modes of moving image. Image: A Tale of Toxicology, 2015, running time 16 min 19 sec http://www.lauraphillips86.co.uk

Niyaz Saghari is a UK based Iranian filmmaker. She studied Film Directing in Tehran Art University, Cinema-Theatre Department, and followed this by joining the M.A animation course in Newport in UK. She has been directing independent documentary and experimental films … Read More

Melanie Clifford works in translation between moving image, sound, drawing, broadcast, material and site, with research interests bridging art and neuroscience. Her work includes silent film and constructing visual scores for variable sound interpretation – soliciting sensitivity to detail, to minor … Read More

Louisa Fairclough lives and works in Bristol and co-founded BEEF with the core aim of supporting and nurturing experimental film practice in Bristol. Her work takes the form of film loops, performances, field recordings and drawings. Louisa graduated from the Slade School of … Read More

Yas Clarke is a sound artist and musician, usually working in collaboration with performance makers and choreographers. Recent research is around reflecting the continuity of space between classifications as a way of exploring the human relationship to nature. Yas creates … Read More

Elisa Kay is a curator and organiser of contemporary art projects. She was Curator/Director of Flat Time House, the home and studio of the late British artist John Latham in South London, from 2008 – 2012, during which time she … Read More

Sam Francis is an interdisciplinary artist and creative producer with an active history in DIY and artist-led activity. Often rooted in personal ritual and collective experience, her process and work explores, interacts and engages with place and space to discover real or … Read More

Marcy Saude’s practice involves subjects such as marginal histories, speculative fiction and utopia, the landscape, counterculture, radical politics, and text(s). Their moving image work has screened in the South West at venues including OD Arts Festival and the Arts Institute … Read More

Oliver Sutherland is a visual artist working across moving image, sound and sculpture. Sutherland’s work often examines the language of digital production, focusing on the relationship between content, tool and the user. Oliver was an associate artist as part of … Read More

Zoe Tissandier is a visual artist who works with moving image, photography, printmaking and installation to explore notions of archiving, collecting and history. She employs texts and stories as a way to generate new meanings and often incorporates these as … Read More

Claudia Pilsl is a photographer and media artist based in Bristol and Vienna. She creates installations and projection works and engages diverse audiences in and beyond the gallery space. Her work is included in major collections such as the Museum … Read More

Siôn Marshall-Waters is a Welsh filmmaker based in Bristol. Having studied visual anthropology at the University of Manchester, his work is grounded in experimental and ethnographic documentary and more recently, the material processes within the construction of film itself. His work … Read More

Melanie Thompson has been active as an interdisciplinary artist and lecturer for 40 years. She has initiated and been commissioned to create original art projects involving installation, performance and collaboration all over the world, travelling widely, performing and teaching and being in … Read More

Simone Einfalt is a Visual Artist, Filmmaker and Creative Technology Producer based in Bristol, UK. She creates place-based works and experiences at the intersection of moving image, object and sound art whilst increasingly exploring immersive technology in her practice. Using collaborative … Read More

Kathy Hinde is an audiovisual artist inspired by behaviours and phenomena found in nature and the everyday.  Her work grows from a partnership between nature and technology expressed through audiovisual installations and performances that combine sound, sculpture, image and light. … Read More

Eliza Lomas is an audio producer, events organiser and workshop facilitator. Recent work includes producing  BBC Radio 4’s Poetry Please, geolocative sound tours for Echoes app and podcast workshops at Knowle West Media Centre. She co-founded Vietnam’s first localised podcast, The Renovation Generation and is … Read More