Artist Profiles
Craig Chaplin | Director | Editor | Camera Operator
Douglas Bentham: The Tablets (2017)
Role: Director
A short documentary produced for SaskTel Local On Demand and the Art Gallery of Swift Current.
Produced as part of a series of videos with the Art Gallery of Swift Current, profiling artists and their exhibitions with the gallery. The Tablets profiles Douglas Bentham, world renowned sculpture artist based in Saskatchewan.
Heather Benning: A Prairie Gothic (2016)
Role: Director
A short documentary produced for SaskTel Local On Demand and the Art Gallery of Swift Current.
Four installation works in sculpture, image and media, including a film – The Dollhouse. Intricately woven narratives on notions of place, loss, the perceived ‘otherness’ of rural life and the construction of gender and femininity.
Jeffrey J. Spalding: Ghosts & Angels (2016)
Role: Director
A short documentary produced for SaskTel Local On Demand and the Art Gallery of Swift Current.
Produced as part of a series of videos with the Art Gallery of Swift Current, profiling artists and their exhibitions with the gallery. Ghosts & Angels profiles the art and philosophy of renowned artist and curator Jeffrey Spalding and chronicles the friendship and collaboration between the artist and Saskatchewan printmaker Gordon Novak.
Zhangjiajie: An Ancient and Modern Homesickness (2016)
Role: Director
A short documentary produced for SaskTel Local On Demand and the Art Gallery of Swift Current.
Produced as part of a series of videos with the Art Gallery of Swift Current, profiling artists and their exhibitions with the gallery. Zhangjiajie is a profile of artist Tian Haowen and writer Zhang Linyan, their love story, and how they are fighting the death of their home town’s history and culture in the face of urbanization.
Robert Scott: Copper Slag (2015)
Role: Post-Production
A short documentary produced for SaskTel Local On Demand and the Art Gallery of Swift Current.
Known for his grand scale abstract, beautiful and very physical paintings Robert Scott recently developed a series of drawing using copper slag on canvas – grand scale, beautiful and very physical drawings. Robert Scott is an internationally renowned artist who maintains a studio in Cadillac, SK, and Edmonton, AB.