Watch the digital screening of Kelly Mackenzie Sinclair's film Back to the Waves

Posted: 11/09/2022

We’re delighted to be launching the digital screening of artist Kelly Mackenzie Sinclair’s short film Back to the Waves.

Back in September 2021, for her first major solo show, Kelly presented a new body of work at ‘a space’ arts’ headline venue, God’s House Tower. In the lead up to the exhibition however, Kelly suffered a period of ill health. Working closely with the ‘a space’ team, Kelly adapted her plan for the show and exhibited a series of drawings, a collection of poetry and a work-in-progress: a short film titled Back to the Waves. A year on and Kelly has recovered from her injury and completed the film.

Back to the Waves explores a personal narrative of Kelly moving away from her first home in Edinburgh and finding a second home here in Southampton. Through poetry, audio, and moving image, the artist considers the chaos of being separated from her motherland and how she found the sea to be constant amongst tremendous change. The film also responds to the theme of GHT’s 2021 programme, GHT: Beside the Sea, which prompted us to consider how significant changes to the shoreline have shaped our modern city.

You can watch Kelly’s film Back to the Waves over on the ‘a space’ arts YouTube channel here

Back to the Waves was written and directed by Kelly Mackenzie Sinclair and commissioned by ‘a space’ arts and exhibited at God House Tower in Autumn 2021. The film will be available to view online for six weeks starting on Sunday 11th September, exactly a year to the day that her exhibition opened at God’s House Tower.