MIDVILLE ART SCHOOL
Steve Hawley
ARTIST BIOS
Steve Hawley and Steve Dutton
Steve Dutton is an artist and occasional curator based in the South West of England. His practice spans drawing, sound, moving image and text, with a focus on exploring the intersections and overlaps of language, space, and time. He is currently developing a new solo body of work titled "The Phantom Industry." His work is characterized by its fluid movement between media and conceptual frameworks, engaging with the acts of reading, drawing, painting, speaking and writing and might be best described as a language-based practice.
Individual and collaborative projects have been exhibited throughout the UK and Internationally. Recent exhibtions include, “A Language Rematerialised” at One Paved Court, London and a Virtual Reality Commission for Spike Island, Bristol. Publications include Fieldnotes Journal and Soanyway magazine. As an occasional co-curator, he is known for creating collaborative environments that challenge some of the conventions of the curatorial process.
Steve Hawley is a Ljubljana (Slovenia) based artist who has been since 1981 part of the second wave of British video artists. His work deals with language, humour, and the nature of memory through archive film and video, and his work has been shown at video festivals and broadcast worldwide. His video The Science Mix was shown at the Stedelijk and MoMA NY in 1983, the first international touring show of video art. Work on myth and the city includes Ghost made in Hong Kong, screened at the 2000 Cannes Director's Fortnight, and Not to Scale 2009 (filmed in a series of deserted model villages). War Memorial 2017 was nominated for best short documentary at the Sheffield DocFest and his book, Men, War and Film, about the unique Calling Blighty message films of WWII was published by Intellect in 2022. He is currently completing a new film work, Broken English-zlomjena angleščina to be screened in 2025, about personal history and cultural identity.
It was reading Art Students Observed in Leeds City Art Gallery library in 1975 that led him to go to art school and shaped his career as an artist and art school lecturer.