Terry Flaxton

United Kingdom

British artist Terry Flaxton was born in 1953 and has been creating moving images since 1976. In 1979, he obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Art specialty communication design and then spent more than 30 years working as a director of photography. During this period, he directed the filming of the third film captured electronically with Channel 4 and BFI’s Out of Order in 1986. He has also compiled an impressive body of works including both powerful and polemical documentaries, but also a very personal and poetic video art.


His work today focuses on sustainable forms of digital, including sound, video, printing and installation. Terry has created and exhibited works around the world and in a variety of forms, from single-screen production to installations, to movies and television. Since 1979, he has participated in more than 200 international exhibitions, notably in Tokyo, Moscow, Xi'an, Milan, Algiers, Strasbourg and recently in Florence, Dublin and New York. Her work has won several awards, including the Montbéliard and Locarno Graphic Awards and the Nike Amsterdam Award.


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Silver Blue Angels

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"When I made this work, I wanted to illustrate that the universe had a purpose and, after creating the images, I assembled the sound to accompany the visual experience. 
Silver Blue Angels is a visualization of the first moments when matter in the Universe began to form. The alluring argument that everything is chaotic and nothing makes sense sometimes prevails - and the very idea that the Universe exists is irrefutable proof that everything we see has meaning and meaning. Therefore, a root cause must have preceded everything we live - after all, we don’t exist and then we exist - a bit like the universe itself." 
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generative art

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landscape

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05:45

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