Intellect

Dr. Steve Swindells is a Reader/Research Leader at the University of Huddersfield; his most recent exhibition Summoning the Face of the Other at New Zealand Film Archive. He has worked collaboratively with Steve Dutton, Professor in Creative Practice at Coventry University for many years. His individual and collaborative work plays with and critically interrogates images, objects and texts through processes of collage and multiple-association. The references are wide and nomadic, often deeply encoded within the images, objects, texts, animations and sound pieces constructed. The intention is to foster complex interpretations by working through various modes of production and strategic interventions; not to deliberately confuse but to tacitly suggest or invoke a realm in which doubt, reticence and inconclusiveness is privileged over other forms of knowledge.

In the relations between text and studio practice/production Dutton and Swindells are interested in conflating image and critique in one composite form and to explore this latency as a simultaneous interface between artist and audience.

In 2008 they completed an international artist-in-residence programme at Ssamzie Space in Seoul, Korea. Dutton and Swindells most recent exhibitions include; Surface Depth, H Gallery Bangkok, September 2010, Summoning the Face of the Other, Unspeaking Engagements, The Arts Centre, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, August 2009 and Lanchester Gallery, Coventry University, February 2010, Institute of Beasts, Kuando Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan, July 2009, Institute of Beasts, Incubator/Velvet Gallery, Seoul, South Korea, June 2009. 

His individual and collaborative work plays with and critically interrogates images, objects and texts through processes of collage and multiple-association. The references are wide and nomadic, often deeply encoded within the images, objects, texts, animations and sound pieces constructed. The intention is to foster complex interpretations by working through various modes of production and strategic interventions; not to deliberately confuse but to tacitly suggest or invoke a realm in which doubt, reticence and inconclusiveness is privileged over other forms of knowledge. In the relations between text and studio practice/production Dutton and Swindells are interested in conflating image and critique in one composite form and to explore this latency as a simultaneous interface between artist and audience.