Building Bridges Exhibition

Building Bridges 2024 The upcoming exhibition will showcase the works of Chris Wright and Ashley Morris, who will be presenting their creations following their residencies in Derby and Osnabruck. Chris specialises in sound art, while Ashley is a filmmaker. Ashley Morris is a neurodivergent writer/director from the Midlands. His work is focused on class, poverty and family. Recently, funded by the BFI Doc Society for his short documentary DO YOU SEE WHAT I SEE?. A documentary about the cost of living crises and female shoplifters of the Midlands. In 2022, he was funded by the BFI for his short film HOME MOVIE. The film is base on real life experiences inspired by old family photographs and memories ofgrowing up in a poorer working class household. In 2019, he was selected for Channel 4's emerging talent scheme, 4Stories and directed the BAFTA Cymru winning ADULTING for Channel 4's BAFTA nominated ON THE EDGE anthology of episodes. The directing scheme focuses on finding diverse and exciting new talent in the UK. At the start of 2021, he was put forward by Blacklight TV and Channel 4 for a BAFTA for emerging talent. His work has been screened at Aesthetica Film Festival, Derby Film Festival, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, BFI Southbank, Portugal Arts Channel, London Short Film Festival. Ashley is currently undertaking a body of work called LOAF exploring working class narratives with lowfi aesthetics. Dr. Chris Wright is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher and writer at the intersection of fine art and philosophy with main concerns of the political, cultural and societal aspects of borders and transitional spaces. With an emphasis on sound and its relationship to time/space, film, installation and performative drawing to create multi-dimensional proposals with myriad interpretations. Recent work includes slow running focusing on listening (UK/ France); improvised music/sound/sound-songs in site-responsive situations (Canada/France/Italy); an art, science, environment project about the global and local politics and nature of water (UK/France) and a developing interest in the sound of protest (Switzerland).