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paul farmer - cv Writer and exploratory artist working across forms. Labour Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Camborne, Redruth & Hayle contact Rhos Dirion, The Foundry, Stithians, Truro, Kernow TR3 7BU, UK. +44 (0)1209 860065/ +44 (0)7962 185968; email: [email protected]. www.farmerart.co.uk; www.farmerfilm.com . academic MA Fine Art: Contemporary Practice, University College Falmouth 2010-11 with specialisms including text and moving image in installation and artworks. BA(Hons) Theatre, Dartington College of Arts 1986-1990 (IIi). Specialism in writing for performance. higher education Lecturer in Film, Falmouth University. 2014 – 2018: Associate Lecturer in Film and Television. Associate Lecturer Academy of Music and Theatre Arts, Falmouth University. a selection of prizes Bard Skrifer An Tyller (‘Writer of the Place’), Gorsedh Kernow, 2000 ‘For services to Cornish arts’; Guardian Public Services Award 2009 (with Arts For Health Cornwall) for ‘Art & Older People’ - Tales by the Sea; Govynn Kernewek Award 2008 for Skath. selected publications We Are Of This Place (Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, 2013); England Calling (Weidenfeld & Nicholson July 2001) fiction; She Looks Me Out In My Everyday Things (eloise Cartonera/ Newlyn Gallery 2007) fiction; Scryfa 2005 - 2010 (Giss ’On Books); Dream Atlas (Giss ’On Books 2002) fiction; Poetry Cornwall (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010); Proof 6 (South West Arts 1996). 2000 – 2008: Scavel An Gow live story collective. Founder member and company manager of the literature performance group Scavel An Gow, revenue funded by Arts Council england. Two series of original stories on BBC Radio 4. writings for performance include the radiogram in the haunted hotel (performance text, 2016) 100 – The Day Our World Changed – Wildworks Theatre Company. PF – two stories unfolding as a month-long series of ‘tweets’ leading into the performance. Shop of What? (2011). One act play written for Shop for Theatre, Falmouth; then produced at The Horse, London Se1, First Draft Theatre Productions April 2012. Blind Russian (broadcast BBC Radio 4 July 2004 and August 2006); Terra Nova (BBC R4 September 2002). Many plays for professional performance including The Lost Tales of Don Quixote, Wild Works, The St Keverne Goat Play for Kneehigh Theatre Company; Gwynn ha Du for Kowethas an Yeth Kernewek; Bells Ring Backwards – Cornwall Theatre Festival. Founder member/ company manager of the Cornish live literature collective Scavel An Gow 2000-08. Twenty professional touring shows for A39 Theatre Group 1985 – 1995 including Driving the New Road, Whole New Towns, The Tale of Trevithick’s Tower, One & All! a selection as film writer/ director/ producer/ editor: Tall Ships 2014 (Pandamedia Cornwall), infomercial. PF – writer, producer, director, researcher, interviewer, consultant editor. found (2014) drama short. PF – writer, actor, camera. just outside the window (2012). Setting of poem by dementia sufferer, commissioned by Sensory Trust. PF – filmmaker, editor five hundred thousand stories (2012). Arts documentary commissioned by Save Our Placards. PF - director, camera, editor. we will see the death of our sun (2011). Artist’s psycho-geographic road movie, adapted from 4- channel video and sound installation. PF – writer, filmmaker. Paul Farmer CV January 2019 | 2 The Pipe and This One Is About Nature (2011). Documentaries with sung narrations. PF – writer, filmmaker. Skath (2009). Documentary feature commissioned by Cornwall Film Festival and MAGA. PF – producer/ director/ editor. Bigger Than Yourself (2009) Documentary feature about the 2008 Tall Ships Race. PF – filmmaker. The Lark (2007), psychological thriller feature for the War-rag film collective. PF – executive producer, writer, co-director. Cargoes (2005-6). Short online films as part of a hypertext project for Arts Council england. PF – filmmaker. New Reed (2004, with Mark Jenkin). Arts Council england. experimental poetry documentary shot in Morocco and Spain. PF – producer/ writer/ presenter. Stairs (2004, with Mark Jenkin,). Poetry short. PF – Producer/ writer/ director/ camera. Birt Dynely (2003), short drama commissioned by the Film Council and Cornwall Film in association with South West Screen. PF writer/ director. Hwerow Hweg (West-Coast Productions 2001/02), Cornwall’s first Cornish language feature film, shot back to back in english and Kernewek. (PF – producer) Naw Kans Baner (2000). Kernewek language documentary feature. PF – filmmaker. artist working in installation, still and moving image, text and performance 2016 (April) the radiogram in the haunted hotel (performance text), ‘Droppers’ curated Andy Webster, Darren Ray, OSR Projects, Dorset 2015 (April) 'I Dreamed I Saw St Augustine', Shoreditch curated Katja Rosenberg 2015 (Feb) 'Misbehaviour', Arts Pavilion, Mile end, London: 'a life begun a mile from mine' 2014 (Oct) 'Misbehaviour', CMR Gallery Redruth. 2014 (March) PS......, CMR Gallery, Redruth: 'a game like a life lived in brutal circumstances' 2013 (Oct – Nov) The Art of Writing, Words Over Waltham Forest curated ArtCatcher 2013 (Sep – Oct) The Art of Writing, CMR Gallery, curated ArtCatcher 2012 (Oct) PLAP2, live art at ActsOf, Battersea: Acts of Contrition 2012 (Oct) 4 weeks 33 hours artist’s residency and exhibition, CMR Gallery, Redruth. Video/ sound/ text/ space installation. 2012 (July – Aug) Beaten Black, Blue, Red, Green & Gold curated by Tom Goddard. 2012 (July) Artichoke, Peace Camp Godrevy - project assistant. 2012 (March – April) if not now when, group show opening CMR gallery, Redruth. PF – on my scepticism regarding the metaphor of memory as empty rooms. Video/ sound/ text/ mixed media Installation. 2012 (February) WELD at The exchange Gallery, Penzance. Video/ sound/ text installation four approaches to a theory of us. 2011 (Dec.) Live At the Gnome Club, Falmouth Wharves. Video/ sound/ text installation one week when the surface is clear you can see the sand below 2011 (Oct) Fear - Whistling In The Dark, curated by Stomper, Shoreditch Town Hall, London. 2011 (Sept) American Artists’ Film Festival, MO., The Lark winner best cinematography 2011 (Sept), This Will Make You Human, group show, University College Falmouth. PF: we will see the death of our sun. Four-channel video and sound installation. 2011 (July) Blas – City Arts, Dublin, ROI 2011 (July) Square Eyes, The exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall Autonomous Zone 2011 (June): Live At, Falmouth. Group exhibition. Absence. 2010 (Oct) Astoria/ Long Island City Film Festival, New York City 2009 (November): Pop-Up, group exhibition for european Regions of Culture, Falmouth UK 2009 (August): European Regions of Culture, Lapua Centre, South Ostrobothnia, Finland 2009 (April): European Regions of Culture, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland. a selection of performance 2014 (Mar) Live literature performance National Maritime Museum 2013 (Oct) Live literature performance Q for Stories, Mylor Theatre Truro. 2012 (Oct) PLAP2, live art at ActsOf, Battersea: Acts of Contrition 2012 (Sept) PLAP1, live art at St Ives September Festival 2012 (June) – Shop for Theatre, Cornwall. Performances on a ferry, quaysides, streets. 2011 (Dec) - Shop for Theatre, Cornwall. Performances in shop and theatre contexts. 1985 – 1995 A39 Theatre Group, Cornwall. Professional political and community theatre company. Many professional tours. 2 Paul Farmer CV January 2019 | 3 1986 – 2003 The A39s, Cornwall & european touring. Satirical cabaret and musical theatre using a wide range of forms and techniques. 1990 – Lumière & Son, Fifty Five Years of the Swallow and the Butterfly 1985 Hit & Run Cabaret 1984 - Miracle Theatre Co. 1976 – 78 Bona Fide Theatre Co. Street theatre company based at BAC. Other: Substantial street theatre performance. Much experience in leading performance workshops, particularly improvisatory, with people of all ages and abilities in community settings, primary, secondary and tertiary education. arts and event management 2011 – present: co-director/ project leader/ project development/ fundraiser CMR Gallery 2002 – present: trustee Cornwall Media Resource, Registered educational charity, Redruth 2012 (July) Artichoke, Peace Camp Godrevy - project assistant. 2005 – 2008: executive producer, project development, writer, co-director War-rag 2001 – 07: Company manager, writer and performer Scavel An Gow. Live literature collective 1988 – 2002: Artistic Director, company manager A39 Theatre Group/ A39 Live !& Media 1999 – 2001: Project coordinator for Kernow Bys Vykken, Hall for Cornwall, Truro researcher & consultant Consultant for MAGA/ The Cornish Language Partnership successful funding bid to HM Government in support of development of the Cornish language 2014. Researcher for the playwright Nick Darke (The Man With Green Hair, Koyt) and BBC Radio 3’s Between the Ears strand. Also researched many other theatre and literary works, including work for Kneehigh Theatre Co. and A39 Theatre Group. a selection of socially engaged projects 2012 (July) – just outside the window, film for the Sensory Trust’s Dementia Uncovered initiative exploring creative writing by dementia sufferers. 2012 (June) - Writer In Residence, Fal River Festival 20 (2010/11) (Blantyre Adult Training Centre, Cornwall Council/ Cornwall Media Resource/ Arts Council england/ National Lottery A Wedding (2010/11) (Morley Tamblyn Lodge Adult Training Centre /Cornwall Council /Cornwall Media Resource /Arts Council england/ National Lottery Anyone Can Write (Hall For Cornwall, Truro) – playwriting
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