Staff Profile

 

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

I'm interested in the following themes:

• How the viewer experiences and contributes to the artwork and how this role is continually evolving with changes in society and technology
• Landscape, migration and place
• Soundscape Ecology
• Environmental Sound Art

Current 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 Projects, Exhibitions, Conferences and Festivals

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

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

Sounding Nature, selected contributor, Cities and Memory Project, Online Archive, 2018

GeNErosity Festival, 10/ 2018

6mm Film Festival, 10/ 2018

TRACE, Radio Series, ResonanceExtra, 2018

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

ASA18 Conference: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology with Dr Adam Doering and Dr Clifton Evers, Oxford University, 2018

1205, Fuse, Bradford, 2018

Gwyl Lechi Bro Ffestiniog/ Ffestiniog Slate Festival 2018

CAMP Residency, France, 2018

CAUTHE Conference 2018 Collaboration with Dr Adam Doering, Dr Clifton Evers, Prof. Kumi Kato, Simon Wearne, Australia 

Sustaining the Seas Conference 2017, Polluted Leisure, Collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Australia

Sydney Ideas Festival 2017, Polluted Leisure, Collaboration with Dr Clifton Evers, Australia

Paths Across Waters, North Shields, 2017

The Dark Outside and Sanctuary Lab, Contributed work, Talnotry, 2017

Adlais, Dorothea Quarry, Gynedd 

Chwarel, Taysarn, Wales, 2017 

Murmur, Collaboration with David De la Haye, Prof. Julieanne Preston, Newcastle, 2017 

AHRC Commons, Common Ground, York, 2016 

Bridges, Collaboration with David De la Haye, Tyne Bridge, 2016

Seasons, Field Camera, Cumbria

Loops, Lines, Layers, Newcastle, 

Things Not Seen Archive, Ex Libris

Cloud 9, Kirkley Hall, Northumberland

FutureEverything Festival, Manchester

Render³, CultureLab

Emblematic Project, Newcastle

LandeScape, Hatton Gallery

Wield Allotments Residency, E.Sussex

Brighton Biennial, Brighton

Change, Queenstown, New Zealand

Helios, Biscuit Factory

Mise-en-scène, Gallery North

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modules

 

 

• Davoll J, Dolan P, Howson P. Tributary. Ethnografilm Festival Paris, 2022. 12 mins, 4K, Colour. In Preparation.
• Davoll J, Dolan P, Howson P. Upstream. 2022. UK: XL Gallery, 5.
• Davoll J. The Invisible Line. 2021. In Preparation.
• Davoll J. Zephyros. 2021. 4K, Colour Split Screen.
• Evers CW, Davoll J. Pollution. Macquarie University, 2020.
• Davoll J. Spitting Stone. 2020. 16 minutes, 4K, Colour.
• Davoll J. Adlais. Llanelli: Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, 2019. Short Film.
• Davoll J. Bound ii. 2019. Allenheads: Allenheads Contemporary Art.
• Davoll J. Bound iii. Hawick: Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, 2019.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Coastal Contaminations. 2019. North Tyneside: Bridge Gallery, 6.
• Davoll J. Flux. 2019. DAB and Online: Resonance Extra, 10 part series.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Making the Anthropocene: Future Fossils, Future Heritage. 2019. North Tyneside: Underpass Gallery, 4.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Polluted Leisure. Newcastle-Upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2019. Short film.
• Davoll J. Splitting the Stone. 2019. In Preparation.
• Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short Film.
• Evers C, Davoll J. A Toxic Love Affair: Polluted Leisure in Blue Spaces (multimedia exhibition). 2018. Newcastle University: Ex Libris Gallery, 6.
• 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.
• Davoll J. Bound. 2018. Glasgow, UK: Centre for Contemporary Art, 1.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Far From Heaven. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Newcastle Institute for Creative Arts Practice, 2018. Short film.
• Evers C, Davoll J. Far from Heaven: Live Performance. 2018. Paris: Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme.
• Davoll J. Trace. 2018. DAB and online radio platform: ResonanceExtra, 12 x episodes, 1 x Finale.
• Davoll J. Adlais. Short to the Point, Gwyl Lechi Bro Ffestiniog, 2017. Film and Performance.
• Preston J, Davoll J, de la Haye D. MurMur. 2017. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle City Walls.
• Davoll J, de la Haye D. Bridges____. 2016. Newcastle upon Tyne: North Tower Tyne Bridge.