No Moon Shining

Isaac Julien (1960 - )

Digital photographic print on Ultra Endura paper

2010

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  • About the work
    Location
    Country: China
    City: Beijing
    Place: British Embassy
  • About the artist
    Isaac Julien’s parents were born in the Caribbean, and emigrated to Britain in the 1950s. Although he was born and grew up in Manchester, his family’s cultural background and history has inspired much of his work, in particular the effects of migration on personal identity and issues around living within a diasporic community. Julien studied painting and fine art film at St Martin’s School of Art and established a reputation as an innovative filmmaker during the early 1990s, most notably with Young Soul Rebels, a prizewinner at the Cannes Film Festival in 1991. Since then his practice has moved towards the visual arts, although film and photography continue to form major components of his work. The recipient of numerous awards, Julien was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2001, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Kunst Film Biennale in Cologne in 2003, and the Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award, at the San Francisco International Film Festival in 2014. He has exhibited and screened his work internationally since the 1990s, and is currently Professor of Media Art at Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany; and Chair, Professor of Global Art, at the University of the Arts, London. He is also a Patron of Stuart Hall Foundation, London; Trustee of Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town, South Africa; Parasol Unit, London; and Trustee of Art Pace Foundation, San Antonio, USA. In 2018, Julien was awarded a CBE for services to the Arts.
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    Places
    China, Guangxi Province
    Subjects
    Materials & Techniques
    photograph (as object name), digital photographic print
  • Details
    Artist
    Isaac Julien (1960 - )
    Title
    No Moon Shining
    Series Title
    Ten Thousand Waves
    Date
    2010
    Medium
    Digital photographic print on Ultra Endura paper
    Dimensions
    height: 180.00 cm, width: 240.00 cm
    Acquisition
    Gift of the artist, acquired through the Outset/Government Art Collection Fund, July 2015
    Inscription
    none
    Provenance
    Acquired through the Outset/Government Art Collection Fund, July 2015; the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery 2015
    GAC number
    18652