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Ackroyd & Harvey • Art of Activism
A film by Fiona Cunningham-Reid • part of the Dorking Radical Film Festival
Friday 10th October • Starts at 7.30pm
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Fiona Cunningham-Reid presents an intimate portrait of internationally acclaimed artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, who work at the intersection of art, activism, biology and ecology.
Uncompromisingly preoccupied with the climate and ecological crisis, Ackroyd & Harvey’s work has become a rallying cry for the environmental movement, winning them international acclaim and a global following. With some of their pieces standing in prestigious galleries and others embedded in nature, their work not only references the natural world, but also regularly employs it. The film offers singular access into the lives, work and partnership of the artists, and their quest to shake humanity into action on climate catastrophe – whatever the personal cost – including their collaboration with Extinction Rebellion, and co-founding the movement Culture Declares Emergency.
Meticulous and thoughtful, this careful study of a lifelong creative partnership asks questions of where art and hope – and love – stand in our very uncertain world.
This film screening takes place at The Green Room Theatre, behind Dorking Halls
Certificate 12A | Running Time 77 minutes
Tickets: £10
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Ackroyd & Harvey: The Art of Activism is the latest film from award winning documentary maker Fiona Cunningham-Reid, offering intimate and singular access into the lives, work and partnership of Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey.
The film previewed at Tate Modern, the Kingston Film Festival and other film festivals before coming to cinemas in September.
About Ackroyd and Harvey
Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey are internationally acclaimed artists, creating works that intersect art, activism, architecture, biology, ecology and history. Referencing memory and time, nature and culture, urban political ecologies, the climate emergency and degradation of the living planet, their time-based practice reveals an intrinsic bias towards process and event. Processes of germination, growth and decay (organic and inorganic) feature in artworks that often evolve through extended research in response to people and place, interfacing their profound interest in local ecologies and global planetary concerns.
Heather and Dan have a studio in Dorking and are very much embedded in our local community. They have been incredibly supportive of many local organisations including Circular Dorking.
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