Thursday 3 October | 6pm

Join us on Thursday 3 October for the screening of the short film ‘Inside the Cauldron’ and In Conversation with the filmmakers: India Ayles, Sophie Mei Birkin, chaired by curator and producer Charlie Clark at Newlands House Gallery.

Tickets: £20

Film begins at 6:00pm
Tickets include access to the ‘Leonora Carrington: Rebel Visionary’ exhibition.

About ‘Inside the Cauldron’

An ecological essay by the pioneering artist Leonora Carrington has recently been discovered. Carrington’s lost message has resurfaced into a world facing the environmental collapse that she feared. Inspired by her call to action, a group of emerging artists from the UK and Mexico made an experimental film called ‘Inside the Cauldron.’ Produced by The Derek Jarman Lab and shot inside Carrington’s previously unseen home and studio in Mexico City, the film is a rare insight into her world and work, which celebrates hybridity and the blurring of the boundaries between human and animal.

In the spirit of Carrington’s multi-disciplinary practice, the filmmakers take a similar approach, interweaving footage of the performance artist Isabel Legate moving through Leonora’s house and studio with a voiceover of Carrington’s essay read by her friend, the writer Dame Marina Warner.

‘Inside the Cauldron’ is an intergenerational plea for humans to see themselves as organisms within the natural world, not separate from it.

Who are the filmmakers?

Co-director – India Ayles is a costume and jewellery designer who’s work has been exhibited at the V&A, Sadlers Well and the Southbank Centre. She is currently studying at the British Academy of Jewellery.

Co-director – Sophie Mei Birkin is a multimedia artist. She has recently exhibited work at The Split Gallery, Barbican Cinema, Southbank Centre and Saatchi Gallery. Sophie Mei is an Associate Lecturer at University of the Arts London. www.sophiemei.art

Producer – The Derek Jarman Lab is a place to think with film in the spirit of the visionary filmmaker Derek Jarman [1942-1994]. The Lab, part of Birkbeck University of London, is run by academics and volunteers who use filmmaking as a tool for communicating research. Their feature film The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger featuring Tilda Swinton premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival and is now distributed by Curzon Artificial Eye and Mubi.

Q&A Chair
Charlie Clark (she/her) is a London-based curator and producer. Her research explores themes of myth, the body, and the future of exhibition design through live events and exhibitions. She has curated and produced events for Goldsmiths CCA, the Barbican, Cubitt Gallery, and Corsica Studios. Charlie is currently pursuing an MFA in Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London, and works in the studios of Céline Condorelli and Chila Burman MBE.

Location: Newlands House Gallery, Pound Street, GU28 0DX
For more information contact enquiries@newlandshouse.gallery