Paul Gittins

Paul Gittins is an artist based in Stourbridge having studied art at Stourbridge College of Art and Cardiff College of Art. He works in many forms of media, music, performance, sculpture, and video, and has exhibited in UK, Europe and China. His interest in the moving image began with observation of the light emitted by television, he built a number of screens that filtered the imagery through screens of paper pixels creating an abstract flow of colour and form. He later expanded the idea to make large screens with hundreds of paper pixels for use in theatres and festivals. The imagery was produced by shadow dancers who were accompanied by musicians to create a live animation. An oak apple placed on the second hand of a clock motor produced a rhythmic pulse, this was used to create musical motifs on a selection of instruments, known as the Oak Apple Orchestra, events were staged in a variety of locations, outdoors in the forest, galleries and in a church, musicians have also been invited to improvise into the soundscape. His current work balances lightweight constructions on a thin shaft powered by a small clock motor, a stop frame animation reveals the sculptural forms produced as the objects move through space.