Background

Profile

James Davoll is an award winning film maker and artist working across creative digital media, video installation, film, photography and sound.

Based in Culture Lab, Newcastle University, UK. His practice explores specific landscapes asking questions of their contemporary role, relevance and our emotive response to them. He seeks to investigate our complex and contradictory relationship with the natural world. 

Qualifications

Fellowship HEA - 2018

MRes Digital Media, Newcastle University - 2012

PGCE in Post Compulsory Education, Sunderland University - 2008

BA Contemporary Photographic Practice, Northumbria University - 2006

Committees

University Technician Commitment Steering Group

School EXEC

Faculty Health and Safety

Culture Lab Steering and Working Groups 

Athena Swan Steering Group

External

Specialist Advisor NationalTechnician Development Centre

Member of the Arts Territory Exchange

Research

Research

I'm interested in the following themes:

• Post industrial landscapes and the legacy of extraction
• Landscape, migration and place
• Soundscape Ecology and Environmental Sound Art
• Performance and expanded cinema

Current Project Include:

• Exploring the legacy of mineral and metal extraction
• Our relationship with cement through skateboarding
• Exploring the resources and infrastructure required to support our Digital Lives

Previous Project Include:

• Experiences of Polluted Leisure where the River Tees meets the Sea
• Recording the liminal spaces of the Northern  Ireland/ Ireland border
• Investigating the Sonic Potential and Heritage Sounds of Dorothea Slate Quarry

Selected Recent Exhibitions, Conferences and Festivals

Spotlight on Academics Film Festival, Canada, 2024

Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2023

Zephyros, Cullercoats Harbour, UK, 08/2022

Upstream, Ex Libris Gallery, Newcastle, 03/2022

un-boxing, Sainte Croix de Mareille, France, 03/2022

Carbon Borders Voices, Online Exhibition, 01/2022

Laurus Film Festival, Moldova, Kazakhstan and Belarus. 2021 (Semi - Finalist)

Bartlett Screening Room, UCL, London, 04/2021

Etnovideográfica Film Festival, Zamora, Spain, 2020 (Nominated Jury Prize)

Winner, Wales international Film Festival, Swansea, Wales, 2019

Spaces of Intervention, Culture Lab, Newcastle, 10/2019

Put This in Your Window and Think of Me, Cambridge, 2019

Skeiôaráhlaup Festival, Iceland, 2019

Winner Best Experimental ReelHeart Film Festival, Toronto Canada, 2019 (Nominated Best Editing)

Bound iii, Alchemy Film Festival, England, 2019

Bound ii, Allenheads Contemporary Art, England, 2019

AnthropOcean, Congresso da Associaçåo Portuguesa de Antropologia, Lisboa, Portugal, 2019

Finalist, Camarthen Bay Film Festival , Wales, 2019

Wales International Documentary Film Festival, Cardiff, Wales, 2019

Short to the Point Film festival, Romania & Moldova, 2019

Ethnografilm Festival, Paris, France, 2019

Honourable Mention, Canada Short Film Festival, 2018

Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair Exhibition and Performance, Foundation Maison des Sciences de L'Homme, Paris, France 11/ 2018

Bound i, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland, 11/2018

TRACE, Radio Series, ResonanceExtra, 2018

Polluted Leisure: A Toxic Love Affair in Blue Spaces, XL Gallery, 09/ 2018

Teaching

Modules

Publications

• Artefact

  • Evers C, Davoll J. Listening to Hope. Headway Arts and the RePUBlic Gallery, Blyth: Shadow Places Network, 2021.

• Digital or Visual Media

  • Davoll J, Dolan P, Howson P. Tributary. Bergen: Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen, 2023. 12 mins, 4K, Colour.
  • Davoll J. Zephyros. 2021. 4K, Colour Split Screen.
  • Davoll J. The Invisible Line. 2021. In Preparation.
  • Davoll J. Spitting Stone. 2020. 16 minutes, 4K, Colour.
  • Evers CW, Davoll J. Pollution. Macquarie University, 2020.
  • Davoll J. Splitting the Stone. 2019. In Preparation.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. Polluted Leisure. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2019. Short film.
  • Davoll J. Bound iii. Hawick: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, 2019.
  • Davoll J. Adlais. Llanelli: Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, 2019. Short Film.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. Far From Heaven. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short film.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short Film.
  • Davoll J. Adlais. Short to the Point, Gwyl Lechi Bro Ffestiniog, 2017. Film and Performance.

• Exhibitions

  • Davoll J, Dolan P, Howson P. Upstream. 2022. UK: XL Gallery, 5.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. Making the Anthropocene: Future Fossils, Future Heritage. 2019. North Tyneside: Underpass Gallery, 4.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. Coastal Contaminations. 2019. North Tyneside: Bridge Gallery, 6.
  • Davoll J. Bound ii. 2019. Allenheads: Allenheads Contemporary Art.
  • Davoll J. Bound. 2018. Glasgow, UK: Centre for Contemporary Art, 1.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in 'Blue Spaces' (multimedia exhibition) at AnthropOcean, Imaginaires, Oceaniques. 2018. Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 13.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in Blue Spaces (multimedia exhibition). 2018. Newcastle University: Ex Libris Gallery, 6.
  • Davoll J, de la Haye D. Bridges____. 2016. Newcastle upon Tyne: North Tower Tyne Bridge.

• Musical Composition

  • Rezaei M. BLUD. . Bandcamp and physical format, Cassette, 2019.

• Performances

  • Davoll J. Flux. 2019. DAB and Online: Resonance Extra, 10 part series.
  • Davoll J. Trace. 2018. DAB and online radio platform: ResonanceExtra, 12 x episodes, 1 x Finale.
  • Evers C, Davoll J. Far from Heaven: Live Performance. 2018. Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
  • Preston J, Davoll J, de la Haye D. MurMur. 2017. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle City Walls.