Slap Stick (1991-94)

Clive Walley was born in Cheshire in 1943. After gaining a degree in Engineering at Manchester University, he went on to study for a Dip.Ed. in Maths, Physics and Art in 1965 at the University of Wales in Bangor. In the years that followed, Clive's increased interest in art led to exhibitions of his paintings in a number of one man shows, later branching out into multimedia and film. The resulting films and installations account for most of what reputation he has gathered over the years despite painting being the core inspiration behind all of his work. •••••• 1991-94 The Divertimenti. Finished in 1994 'Divertimenti' is a unique and beautiful sequence of films where the viewer is taken on a journey into a 4-dimensional abstract and painterly world, where animated brush strokes dance and dart across levels of glass in perfect synchrony with the music. Mostly appearing as abstract shapes and lines, occasionally the paint takes on other forms, metamorphosing into human and pictorial images. The Divertimenti is a sequence of six three minute films made in three intensive years of work with six different composers. A new composer for each film helped to ensure the variety in the series which is now its hall mark.

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Film & Animation

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• Science
• Art
• Animation