Staff Profile
James Davoll
Technical Manager
- Email: james.davoll@ncl.ac.uk
- Telephone: 019120 84643
- Address: Culture Lab
Newcastle University,
Grand Assembly Rooms,
King’s Walk,
Newcastle upon Tyne,
NE1 7RU, United Kingdom
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. Bergen: Universitetsbiblioteket i Bergen, 2023. 12 mins, 4K, Colour.
- 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.