Re:New Wallace #5

Meg Earls
Neil Foster
Nelson Santoni

The Wallace Artist Residency programme, presented by R-Space Gallery, Lisburn in association with the Wallace Collection, London is now in its sixth year. 

For Re:New Wallace #5 three artists were selected to work remotely and have been jointly commissioned to create a first animated short film on the story of the first Wallace fountains erected in Paris in 1872 by Sir Richard Wallace during the Paris siege. (Later, he was to donate five to Lisburn, two of which remain:  in Castle Gardens and Wallace Park). Northern Irish Artists Meg Earls (animator) and Neil Foster (musician) are collaborating with French composer Nelson Santoni on the work. The finished piece will be previewed at R-Space (together with all artwork to date) and is scheduled to be screened in Paris later in the year during the city-wide celebrations there in association with the Society of the Wallace Fountains.

Re: New Wallace Residencies

The purpose of the residency, and latterly the exhibition, is to provide the opportunity for artist/makers to create work in residency in the extraordinary environment that the Wallace Collection offers and ultimately to produce new commissioned signature works for potential future exhibition at R-Space Gallery and also to be offered for sale through the Wallace Collection shop.

This is a chance to celebrate and promote the creativity and help place Lisburn, and its history, more firmly on the creative and cultural map.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Meg Earls is a filmmaker from Northern Ireland. She has a degree in animation from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, where her graduation film Border/Line received a British Animation Award. In January she began her MA in Directing Animation at the National Film and Television School. She uses animation to tell stories that need to be told.

Neil Foster is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who composes expansive, cinematic music inspired by dreams, landscapes, horizons and wild spaces, bringing elements together through intuitive experimentation. Using atmospheric textures, polyrhythmic layers, found sounds and lyrical melody his work moves across and between genres which include classical music, electronica, experimental soundscapes and ambient tribal trance. His first album ‘Hiraeth’ was released in 2018. ‘Stormlight’ his second, was released in November 2021.

Nelson Santoni has been keen on music since childhood. He attended music school where he studied trumpet and orchestration, then the universities of "La Sorbonne" and "Pierre et Marie Curie", with a dual bachelor's degree in Sciences, Music and Musicology. In 2018, he obtained a Master's Degree in Sound Engineering from the ENS Louis-Lumière.

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