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Staff Profile

James Davoll

Technical Manager

  • Telephone: 019120 84643
  • Address: Culture Lab
    Newcastle University,
    Grand Assembly Rooms,
    King’s Walk,
    Newcastle upon Tyne,
    NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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

  • 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.