Stuart Croft’s work in moving image explores the subjects of deception, fantasy, power and desire. Croft’s gallery-based films typically employ the apparatus of fiction cinema, and the artist uses these methodologies to draw on the normatively linear themes of the cinematic. Specific textual or editorial structures are frequently applied to these subjects, creating endlessly recurrent or irrational scenarios that are brought to fruition within the circular, looping condition of the gallery space.
Since completing his MA at Chelsea College of Art in 1998, Croft has exhibited and screened his work in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including Bloomberg SPACE, London; M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Antwerp; Tate Modern (Starr Auditorium), London; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, Lond
more...Stuart Croft’s work in moving image explores the subjects of deception, fantasy, power and desire. Croft’s gallery-based films typically employ the apparatus of fiction cinema, and the artist uses these methodologies to draw on the normatively linear themes of the cinematic. Specific textual or editorial structures are frequently applied to these subjects, creating endlessly recurrent or irrational scenarios that are brought to fruition within the circular, looping condition of the gallery space.
Since completing his MA at Chelsea College of Art in 1998, Croft has exhibited and screened his work in solo and group exhibitions worldwide, including Bloomberg SPACE, London; M HKA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Antwerp; Tate Modern (Starr Auditorium), London; Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, London; MoMA-PS1, New York; Kunsthalle Luzern, Switzerland; Site Gallery, Sheffield; FACT, Liverpool; Royal Academy, London; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Galerie Pristine, Monterrey; White Box, New York; Gasworks Gallery, London; Kulturverein BB15, Linz; Galleria Civica di Modena, Italy; REIS Projects, Antwerp; g39, Cardiff; Fiedler Contemporary, Cologne.
Croft has received funding and commissions from AHRC (Arts & Humanities Research Council); Arts Council England; Bloomberg COMMA; London Arts, and several RCA Research grants. His work has been reviewed in numerous publications, including Artforum; Art Monthly; Contemporary; Art Review; The Guardian and Time Out. Stuart Croft is a lecturer at the Royal College of Art, where he established the Moving Image Studio in 2009.
