Cerith Wyn Evans
b. 1958
Cerith Wyn Evans (British, b.1958) was born in Llanelli, Wales. He studied Fine Art at the Saint Martins School of Art in London, and graduated in 1980. Four years later, he completed an MA in Film and Video at the Royal College of Art. For a period of time, he served as an assistant to Derek Jarman (English, 1942–1994), an English filmmaker, scenographer, and painter. Evans made experimental short films through the 1980s. The artist works in a variety of media including film, photography, sculpture, and installation. Evans has used unusual and eccentric materials, such as fireworks, light fixtures, neon lights, lanterns, Morse code, plants, mirror balls, and even urine, to express and explore his ideas on language and perception. His first solo exhibition was called Inverse Reverse Perverse and was held at the White Cube Gallery in London. This gallery continues to represent him in the United Kingdom to this day. One of his most striking and publicized works was an installation at the Venice Biennale, where he used a British World War II searchlight to tap out the poem of a 17th century Welsh bard, Ellis Wynne, in Morse code. The poem, Visions of a Sleeping Poet, was visualized…
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