Gillian Mciver

Volcano!!!

I went to Lanzarote. No, it wasn’t a beachy holiday, it was work – workshops to be more precise. Creativity. I did writing.Lots of it. I also went to the lava fields  hills, and walked them, pretty scary, and went inside a volcano.

Lanzarote is amazing. Prickly, spiky place. Cactus growing everywhere. Most of the island is rough lava rock. Barren hills. It’s another planet. And it’s beautiful.

 

inside the volcano

 

volcanic hills

 

the route taken

Published by Gillian Mciver

My interest in history has taken me into documentary film-making, short films and artists' video. Much of my work explores historical events or places. After film school, I co-founded Luna Nera, an independent international collective of artists who get together to explore art as site-response, making video, films, installation and live art in unusual spaces. Through that, I've also worked as artist and curator of projects worldwide, along side my film work. My interest in art history and film led me, in 2016 to write "Art History for Filmmakers" published by Bloomsbury Press, a book exploring how filmmakers can and do use paintings from the past to inspire and create visual story telling.