Animation working title ‘Oh l’eau, l’eau!’
Meg Earls, Neil Foster and Nelson Santoni
9 April to 6 May 2022
11am - 5pm
Tuesday to Saturday
Free Admission
Opening Reception
2pm - 4pm 9 April 2022
The Richard Wallace Artist Residency programme, presented by R-Space Gallery, Lisburn in association with the Wallace Collection, London is now in its sixth year. 2022 see the 150th anniversary of the first Wallace Fountain in Paris.
Three artists have been selected to work remotely and have been jointly commissioned to create a first animated short film on the story of the first Wallace fountains erected in Paris in 1872 by Sir Richard Wallace during the Paris siege. (Later, he was to donate five to Lisburn, two of which remain: in Castle Gardens and Wallace Park). Northern Irish Artists Meg Earls and Neil Foster are collaborating with French composer Nelson Santoni on the work. The finished piece will be previewed at R-Space (together with all artwork to date) and is scheduled to be screened in Paris later in the year during the city-wide celebrations there in association with the Society of the Wallace Fountains.
About The Artists
Meg Earls is a filmmaker from Northern Ireland. She has a degree in animation from the University for the Creative Arts, Farnham, where her graduation film Border/Line received a British Animation Award. In January she began her MA in Directing Animation at the National Film and Television School. She uses animation to tell stories that need to be told.
Neil Foster is a composer and multi-instrumentalist who composes expansive, cinematic music inspired by dreams, landscapes, horizons and wild spaces, bringing elements together through intuitive experimentation. Using atmospheric textures, polyrhythmic layers, found sounds and lyrical melody his work moves across and between genres which include classical music, electronica, experimental soundscapes and ambient tribal trance. His first album ‘Hiraeth’ was released in 2018. ‘Stormlight’ his second, was released in November 2021.
Nelson Santoni has been keen on music since childhood. He attended music school where he studied trumpet and orchestration, then the universities of "La Sorbonne" and "Pierre et Marie Curie", with a dual bachelor's degree in Sciences, Music and Musicology. In 2018, he obtained a Master's Degree in Sound Engineering from the ENS Louis-Lumière.