On twelve occasions Glyndebourne Education invited the students to
explore and photograph the grounds, auditorium and backstage areas at
Glyndebourne. What ensued was a comprehensive process of editing
images, composing music and articulating their responses to the
commission. The students have mostly gone on to higher education but
their reflections on their collaborations and the presentation of their
work will be documented in a book, due to be published by Photoworks in
the Spring of 2008.
The six student pieces are the resulting collaborative works, with image sequences by the photography students and music composed by the young musicians. The music is performed by the Sussex Downs Youth Orchestra.
The students were:
Anya Krasnikova
Rachel Banham
Sam Pope
Lucie Colburn
Shanie Smith
Fraser Cohen
Peter Nickalls
Simi Fyles
Chris Smith
Duncan Brown
James Woollard
Alex Dunphy
Credits:
Peter Baker, Head of the East Sussex Academy of Music
Jane Griffin, Course leader of Photography, BHASVIC
Malcolm Warnes, Conductor South Downs Youth Orchestra
All 80 members of South Downs Youth Orchestra
Pendle Poucher, Production
Miranda Fairbairn, previous Education Projects Manager at Glyndebourne, for co-designing and co-running the student programme
Polly Carter, Education Co-ordinator, Photoworks
Neeta Madahar, Tom Ward and Miguel D’Oliveria, visiting artists
The Pieces
Return
Anya Krasnikova and Simi Fyles
Inspired by first hand accounts of ghostly encounters from Glyndebourne staff; Return describes an intimate relationship with Glyndebourne from the point of view of someone who has returned there after her death.
Contrary
Lucie Colburn and Chris Smith
The beautiful gardens at Glyndebourne, famous for the picnics laid on by Glyndebourne Festival audiences, provide the backdrop for a curious set of portraits.
Illuminations
Rachel Banham and Alex Dunphy,
This piece takes us backstage to the dressing rooms where a dance of transformation is performed for us.
Minutes
Shanie Smith and Peter Nickalls
Contrasts the mundane and the fantastic, through images of the daily routine of a performer and the awe inspiring auditorium.
Collaborative Machine
Sam Pope and James Wollard
Glyndebourne as a collaborative machine comes into focus at its architectural and working centre, the stage.
Work Station
Fraser Cohen and Duncan Brown
The backstage environment and in particular the people who inhabit this space are represented in Work Station, by the marks they make…