Wild

Abstract

Wild is a series of drawings made into 3min film. The drawings were exhibited in a group show entitled Parallax at the Katowice Fine Art Academy in Poland 2015 then at Chelsea College of Arts, London 2016. This was part of a project and collaboration that acknowledged the art school’s function as a test site where ideas and approaches are shared, challenged and developed. Wild is a short film Bruton made in response to Jack Halberstam’s text 'Charming for the Revolution: A Gaga Manifesto’. Elements are drawn from a print by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues; ‘A Young Daughter of the Picts’ 1533 and found images of mockingbirds; they are serenaded by Ronnie Ronaldo’s Mockingbird Hill. Artifice and mimicry challenge notions of fixed identities from a personal as well as cultural perspective. The film captures research material, images and stories, which Bruton has collected to inform her painting practice. Wild was initially made for the ‘The Performance Dinners’ a series of events hosted by the ‘Subjectivity and Feminisms’ Research Group. Wild is one of a series of film, animation and projection that Bruton has made in response to the groups' ongoing collaborations and examination of the inter-relationships between subjectivity and the artwork and underlying feminist theories