Ravi Deepres is a British artist who works with lens based and screen based media. He has worked extensively with

contemporary dance Contemporary dance is a genre of dance performance that developed during the mid-twentieth century and has since grown to become one of the dominant genres for formally trained dancers throughout the world, with particularly strong popularity in ...

companies, including Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company ( UK) and Karas (

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), and with the British

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music group, :zoviet*france:. His first solo exhibition, ''Patriots'', shown at the Hatton Gallery,

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, UK, in 2003, explored aspects of patriotic and national identity around the football

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and

European Championships The European Championships is a multi-sport tournament which brings together the existing European Championships of some of the continent's leading sports every four years. The inaugural edition in 2018 was staged by the host cities of Berlin, ...

. Deepres works as a lecturer in photography and moving image at the

Birmingham Institute of Art and Design , mottoeng = "Do what you are doing; attend to your business" , established = 1992—gained university status1971—City of Birmingham Polytechnic1843— Birmingham College of Art , type = Public , affiliation = ...

, part of

Birmingham City University Birmingham City University (abbrev. BCU) is a university in Birmingham, England. Initially established as the Birmingham College of Art with roots dating back to 1843, it was designated as a polytechnic (United Kingdom), polytechnic in 1971 and gai ...

Selected screen based works

* ''still.moving'' - A collaboration with :zoviet*france:, commissioned by David Metcalfe Associates (

, UK), for screening during live performances by :zoviet*france:. * ''Tyneside Journey'' (2000) - A collaboration with :zoviet*france:, commissioned by

Newcastle City Council Newcastle City Council is the local government authority for the city and metropolitan borough of Newcastle upon Tyne. The council consists of 78 councillors, three for each of the 26 wards in the city. It is currently controlled by the Labou ...

, UK. * ''Tremor'' (2005) Commissioned by Channel 4 and Arts Council England. Sound by :zoviet*france:. * ''Runner'' (2006) - A co-directed and produced with Michael Baig Clifford. Commissioned by the Great North Run Cultural Programme (

Newcastle Newcastle usually refers to: *Newcastle upon Tyne, a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England *Newcastle-under-Lyme, a town in Staffordshire, England *Newcastle, New South Wales, a metropolitan area in Australia, named after Newcastle ...

and

Gateshead Gateshead () is a large town in northern England. It is on the River Tyne's southern bank, opposite Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle to which it is joined by seven bridges. The town contains the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Millennium Bridge, Sage ...

), UK. Soundtrack by :zoviet*france:. *Obscura (2007) - A choreographed film about the loss of sight and the gaze using the creation of a moving

camera obscura A camera obscura (; ) is a darkened room with a aperture, small hole or lens at one side through which an image is 3D projection, projected onto a wall or table opposite the hole. ''Camera obscura'' can also refer to analogous constructions su ...

. Screened at Royal Academy London, as an installation at Rugby Museum and Art Gallery, Star Space Shanghai, Hereford Film Festival, and Wolverhampton Art Gallery.

Selected photographic projects

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Absolute Zero Absolute zero is the lowest limit of the thermodynamic temperature scale, a state at which the enthalpy and entropy of a cooled ideal gas reach their minimum value, taken as zero kelvin. The fundamental particles of nature have minimum vibration ...

'' (2000) - Original photography for the artwork of the compilation CD album ''Absolute Zero''. *''Patriots'' (2003) - First solo exhibition, Hatton Gallery,

, UK.

References

External links

visualforbusiness.com
Profile
vivid.org.uk
Information about ''Runner''
https://ravideepres.com/film
Information about select screen works Living people Academics of Birmingham City University Photographers from Birmingham, West Midlands Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-photographer-stub