SALLY STEVENS

NEW IMPROVED WEBSITE!!!

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Please go to www.sallystevens.co.uk to see my new website up and running. It has all of the work shown here on this blog plus more material and more recent projects. Thanks!

May 2010

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Work featured on the website P&B Cultural Showcase (as competition winner):

http://www.pandbshowcase.co.uk/categories/media/

and 'Critic's choice' on the MiShorts website homepage from 5th May:

http://www.mishorts.com/

IMPROBABLE: Panic

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Prop and set construction for Improbable theatre company on their latest show 'Panic', including construction of fornicating animal shadow puppets. The show was heavily reliant on visual projections and brown paper. The set had a scaffold structure as a base, which was transformed in simple and dynamic ways as the show progressed.

Toured Newbury, Liverpool and Leeds, England and Ohio, USA. Final performances at the Barbican, London April/ May 2009.

Stills from the show:

The set in rehearsals:

NFTS

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Employed as Art Director and model maker on this National Film and Television School MA graduate animation, Dir Li Marhaban. Nine months in production, completed January 09 and screened March 09 at BFI Southbank.

Featured below on the Kodak Animation Showcase website: click on link below, scroll down and click on 'End of the Line'

http://www.filminfocus.com/focusfeatures/film/9/showcase

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Some photos of the sets:

SECRET CINEMA: Ghostbusters

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Royal Horticultural Halls, Westminster, Dec 08. Art direction and set styling/ construction. Recreation of the kitchen scene from Ghostbusters, with exploding/ oozing eggs and vortex fridge, and a New York street scene.

UNIQLO

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Construction of giant paper stars for Andy MacGregor.

Uniqlo Christmas display, 2008

VOLVIC

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Prop making and set styling for Blink creative agency. Client: Volvic. Series of animated adverts featuring Alan the dinosaur and George the volcano.

Set constructed from wire, felt, and foam.

FESTIVALS FETE

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Project devised and made to tour festivals in 2007, including Latitude and Bestival. All costumes, signs and promotional material designed and made by myself and Hannah Wood.

Photos to follow

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DRAWINGS: Portraits

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Click on image to enlarge

Man on Tube: Nicki: Old Self-Portrait: Rome: Hannah:

DRAWINGS: Party in the Park

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People on their way to and from Preston Park, Brighton, observed from living room window.

Click on image to enlarge

DRAWINGS: Folded

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Paper folded objects that begin as portraits and fold out to reveal a bigger picture. (Own design, based loosely on the Mad magazine foldouts) Click on image to enlarge Birdbrain: Machinehead: Gambling woman: Boy smoking:

COMICS: Objects comic

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A series of comic strips created from scratch around the idea of objects being either masculine or feminine in some languages.

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ANIMATION: Lindyhoppers

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Animation made for non-commercial use, experimenting with the use of non-fixed line to convey movement, and enhance a piece of music. Based on Lindyhop dancers in Brighton. ________________________________________

ANIMATION: Flat Earth

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Filmed on the Brighton Seafront. Music by Kriminaalne Elevant.

ANIMATION: Birthday

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A flickbook made for a friend

ANIMATION: Magic Trick

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ANIMATION: Swans

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Gravy-laden attack on innocent duck bread-baskets

Part of the set:-

ANIMATION: Strange Fruit

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Animation to the song 'Strange Fruit' written by Lewis Allen,

performed by Billie Holiday in 1939

EXHIBITIONS/ SCREENINGS

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• East End Film Festival April 2010 • Flatpack film festival Birmingham, April 2010 • Selected by Paynes & Borthwick Cultural Showcase online competition to display drawings at Bearspace gallery in Deptford, in conjunction with RSVP London. March 2010 • Drawings and animations at Greenwich Picturehouse, March – April 2010 • Greenwich Dance Agency at GDA Cabaret, Greenwich; Jan 08 and Feb 09 • Herefordshire Art Week; Exhibition of drawings. Sep 07 • Collision Film Festival, Shropshire Sep 07 • Future Shorts at the ICA, Jan 07 • Norwich Animation Festival Oct 06 • The Hat Shop Restaurant, Presteigne, Powys, Exhibition of drawings. Sep 06 • The Grass is Greener at The Rodd (Sydney Nolan Trust), Powys: Exhibition of drawings. Aug 06 • Mediawave Film Festival, Hungary, May 06. All expenses paid trip to document the journey of an Estonian band from Tallinn to Gyor in Hungary by road, and turn into an animated film. • Exposure Short Film Festival, Manchester, Nov 05. Additionally commissioned to make music video for "Previous Occupier", also screened at the festival. ___________________________________________________ Awards________________________________________________ • Exposures Short Film Festival Manchester - Dec 05: First prize in the experimental category of esteemed student film festival. Prize included a distribution deal with Shorts International and £400 worth of filmmaking equipment. • Bloomberg Arts Organisation - Oct 04: Shortlisted nominee/finalist for Young Contemporaries animation competition. Animation screened in Bloomberg corporate offices (London)

C.V

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