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Joseph Clark Collection

Hugo Glendinning

Born 1962 · Photography and film

Hugo Glendinning (born 1962) is a London-based photographer and film-maker whose work spans contemporary art collaborations, performance documentation and portraiture, including a long-running project with Tim Etchells and the Sheffield company Forced Entertainment.

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About the artist

Hugo Glendinning was born in 1962 (Festival d'Avignon) and works from a studio in London (Hugo Glendinning). His work as a photographer and film-maker runs from contemporary art collaborations in video and photography to production and performance documentation and portraits, and he is regularly commissioned by the RSC, the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House (Hugo Glendinning). His dance and theatre photographs include work with Michael Clark, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Forced Entertainment and DV8 (Hugo Glendinning).

He has recorded performances for camera and public events with artists including Paola Pivi, Martin Creed, Matthew Barney, Dan Colen, Yinka Shonibare and Franko B (Hugo Glendinning). With Tim Etchells, artistic director of Forced Entertainment, he has a continuing project documenting and investigating performance (Hugo Glendinning). Void Spaces at Site Gallery, Sheffield, in 2000 showed their digital installation Hotel Binary alongside earlier digital, video and photographic work (Site Gallery), and the Festival d'Avignon showed their exhibition Empty Stages in 2012 (Festival d'Avignon).

With Adrian Heathfield he directed and edited Spirit Labour (2016), a visual essay on the work of Janine Antoni commissioned by freethought for Bergen Assembly 2016 (Adrian Heathfield), and Outside Again (2017), a short documentary on Tehching Hsieh commissioned for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennale (Hugo Glendinning). He was an AHRC fellow in the Department of Drama at the University of Exeter from 2008 to 2011 (Hugo Glendinning). The V&A holds a 1997 poster for Yasmina Reza's Art at Wyndham's Theatre that carries his photograph (V&A).

Sources

  1. Hugo Glendinning, official website
  2. Hugo Glendinning, contact and biography
  3. Hugo Glendinning, Dance - Theatre - Performance
  4. Hugo Glendinning, Artists
  5. Hugo Glendinning, moving image
  6. Festival d'Avignon, Hugo Glendinning
  7. Festival d'Avignon, Tim Etchells
  8. Site Gallery, Hugo Glendinning, Tim Etchells & Forced Entertainment (28 Mar to 6 May 2000)
  9. Adrian Heathfield, Spirit Labour
  10. V&A, Art poster (S.215-2011)
  11. Spitalfields Life, Hugo Glendinning, photographer
A room in the Joseph Clark Collection hung salon-style: framed paintings, drawings and photographs cover two white walls, with sculptures on a teak sideboard and a white plinth below.
Installation view of the Joseph Clark Collection, including works by Zhang Enli, Tamsin Relly, Glenn Ligon, Louise Bourgeois, Ray Parker, Phyllida Barlow, Bengt Rosenström, Antonio Tarsis, Hugo Glendinning, Tim A Shaw, France-Lise McGurn, Mia Chaplin, Fabian Peake and Yukako Shibata.

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