Gillian Mciver

PROSPERO’S LIBRARY

http://www.prospero-library.com/


‘narratology’, DETAIL. BOOK ART INSTALLATION 2011

Late April 2011 I brought the book art project PROSPERO’S LIBRARY to London. I made a book installation (this is a small detail) and we presented a lot of wonderful artist-books in the show. A great experience.

I love books, LOVE them, and this installation was about transfiguring and transforming old redundant books into art rather than pulping of throwing them away.


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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.