Light Reading presents a selection of work produced during the recent FURTHER 2 residency. The event will take place at the Kingsgate Gallery on Wednesday 31 January (7pm) and features new work by Helene Martin, Jennifer Nightingale and Ruth Proctor.

Helene Martin studied History at the Université du Maine, Le Mans, France (1992-1996), completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 2005. She has exhibited and taken part in film festivals both nationally and internationally. Helene was shortlisted for the Jerwood drawing Prize in 2005 and will be showing work as part of the 'Starting from Scratch’ festival in Amsterdam this coming February.

Jennifer Nightingale’s practice explores the relationships between controls of the film-making process and the gestures of the film-maker. She studied for her BA at KIAD in Canterbury, and graduated with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art.

During the residency Jennifer’s practice has dealt with the privileging of formal
units to signify/ elude to / or take the place of movement as an expressive gesture, where whole sequences of movement have been reduced to several precise parts or poses.

Ruth Proctor’s practice spans installation, drawing and photography, and she has recently started to use film in relation to these. Her work deals with ideas coming from music, performance, and the spectacle of sporting events. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2005, Ruth has had solo shows at Hollybush Gardens, London, and Center, a project space in Berlin.

Light Reading is an on-going series of critical dialogues that engage artists, writers and curators in conversation around a selected artist’s body of work. This event will offer an opportunity to view work by three emerging artists produced during their residency at no.w.here between October 2006 and January 2007.

The FURTHER 2 residency is co-organised by Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, Artquest and no.w.here. It offers a three month, part time, moving image residency for 3 London-based visual artists to develop film based projects. The residency provides a period of research, experimentation and development, without the pressure of having a fixed outcome. It includes bespoke workshops, a materials budget and year-long membership to no.w.here artists' film and video lab.

Tickets for the event are £3 if pre-booked or £4 on the door. Places are limited so booking is essential, please call 020 7372 3925 or email courses@nowhere-lab.org to reserve seats.