Eddie Saint-Jean visual artist, photographer, filmmaker
Eddie Saint-Jean is an artist working in moving image and photography.
The artist’s videoworks are ‘uncanny‘ mixtapes of existence. A mishmash of ontological graffiti and scribbled random thoughts. The findings and thoughts of quantum physicist Niels Bohr, philosopher George Berkeley and sociologist Jean Baudrillard meet somewhere as the 3Bs. Do we exist at all? And are our memories real…actually ours? What is real?
The intersection of London nightlife, live music dens, skinny backstreet alleys, fashion, football, YouTube boxers, and philosophical ramblings on the night bus home. A lot of the work is in a state of ‘superposition’ with lots going on at the same time and collected on one canvas. The titles of the exhibited artworks are always presented like a tracklist on a mixtape.
PRESS
Muscadine Magazine The Uncanny Eye of Eddie Saint-Jean. Eddie Saint-Jean is interviewed about how Freudian theories of the Uncanny influence his art. Also his favourite artists, tips and lifestyle questions.
Libretto Magazine A Conversation With Eddie Saint-Jean. Interviewed about art, film, Freud, The Uncanny, David Lynch, Kubrick…
Haus-a-Rest Magazine the ‘Uncanny’ issue features art influenced by Sigmund Freud’s Uncanny. Eddie Saint-Jean is one of the artists featured and his artwork Uncanny2 is in their Uncanny-themed exhibition
Art Hole Magazine feature article on Eddie Saint-Jean’s influences and the concept of the Uncanny
What’s Hot London? Magazine article on Eddie Saint-Jean’s exhibition at The Espacio Gallery and the new normal for artists after Covid lockdown.
Exhibitions & Awards
EXHIBITION – Cinematographie Fox Yard Studio, Stowmarket, Suffolk [2024].
Group exhibition centred around film-to-art explorations. Artists who cross the boundaries between cinema, film and visual arts. The intersection of works of art and cinema.
EXHIBITION – ‘Uncommon’ Stratford Library, 3 The Grove, London E15 1EL, [2023]. A solo exhibition of photographic works. Rethinking statues, monuments and historic works of art.
EXHIBITION – The Uncanny Exhibition Phantasmal Gallery, [2023]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s INVERT-igo video work selected for this online group exhibition themed around ‘the uncanny’.
EXHIBITION – The Derelict Exhibition: Art in the Age of Decline. Uncovered Collective. Safehouse, 137/139 Copeland Road, SE15 3SN [2023]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s INVERT-igo video installation selected for this group exhibition in an abandoned Victorian house in Streatham. Themed around abandonment, estrangement and decay.
EXHIBITION – Waterborne Exhibition Bloqs, 2 Anthony Way, London N18 3QT [2023]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s cinema and ‘uncanny’-inspired photographic work titled In A Glass Darkly selected for this group show.
EXHIBITION – Fluid Exhibition Espacio Gallery, 159 Bethnal Green Road, London. [2023]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s cinema and ‘uncanny’-inspired photographic work titled In A Glass Darkly selected for this group show.
EXHIBITION – I Matter, Babylon Gallery, Ely Cambridgeshire. [2021-22 tour]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s experimental photographic work ‘Black Queen’ was amongst the works selected for the I Matter group exhibition and given an exhibition award for selection. The exhibition is now on a tour of galleries and museums in East Anglia 2021-22.
EXHIBITION – IAVOPO 1st International Pop Art Biennale [June 2021]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s Uncanny-influenced photographic work ‘We’re All In This Together’ was selected for the 2021 IAVPOA 1st International Pop Art Biennale. The work has pop art elements.
EXHIBITION – Unity Exhibition Candid Gallery, Torrens Street, Islington, London. [May 2021]. Eddie Saint-Jean’s photographic work ‘We’re All In This Together’ was selected for this group exhibition.
EXHIBITION – Facade Hackney Downs Studio, London [April 2021]. The artist recreated and reworked the Vertigo Effect which is a disorientating zoom effect used in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1958 movie. His Vertigo video art was exhibited at this group exhibition.
EXHIBITION – Space In Between Gallery 54, Mayfair, London. [April 2021]. This group show organised by TAOI (The Art Of Isolation) sought work that responded to the theme of ‘ The Space In Between’. It was also the April anniversary of film director Alfred Hitchcock’s death, so the artist produced VERTIGO a series of works in photography and video art. The disorientating zoom used in the original movie is reshot in an East End rooftop car park with striking commentaries on perspective and uncanny urban environments.
EXHIBITION – IAVOPO 1st International Video Art Festival, [Feb 2021]. The ‘Blackout Uncanny’ video installation was selected for the 2021 IAVPOA 1st International Video Art Festival. It features clips from Eddie Saint-Jean’s Uncanny-influenced feature film Blackout (2020) projected onto a bathroom shower curtain in an experimental homage to the Hitchcock film Psycho.
EXHIBITION – From Portray To Portrait, Rooftop Arts Centre, Corby, UK [Feb 2021]. Saint-Jean’s photographic work A Feast Of Friends (below) was selected for this group show.
EXHIBITION – Affinity Exhibition Pepney Gallery, Cavan, Ireland. (Jan 2021). Saint-Jean’s photographic work A Feast Of Friends (above) was selected for this New Year exhibition. The judging panel felt the artwork was ‘striking, original and fits the exhibition theme very well’. The show was online/virtual because of UK Covid restrictions.
EXHIBITION – Gallery 54 Mayfair, London (Jan 2021). Saint-Jean’s photographic work A Feast Of Friends was included in this New Year group show organised by the TAIO Collective. It celebrated Rebirth and New Beginnings in the New Year. Earmarked for Jan 17-24 at The Gallery 54, Mayfair, it ran as a virtual exhibition from Jan 21 because of the uncertainty around Covid 19 restrictions
AWARD-WINNING FINALIST – Florence Contemporary Gallery, Florence, Italy. (Dec 2020) Saint-Jean’s photographic work Uncanny2 was pre-selected as a finalist in a competition run by the gallery.
EXHIBITION – Candid Gallery Christmas Show Islington, London, UK (Dec 2020}. Saint-Jean’s photographic work Uncanny2 (above) selected for Candid’s in-gallery Christmas show.
EXHIBITION – Metamorphosis Exhibition Hackney Downs, London, UK, (Dec 2020). Saint-Jean’s photographic work Uncanny2 (above) selected for virtual exhibition Dec 11-20.
EXHIBITION – The Art Of Isolation Espacio Gallery, Shoreditch, London, UK. (Nov 2020)
Saint-Jean’s photographic work Uncanny2 (above) selected for this in-gallery exhibition which sought creative responses to the restricting and isolating conditions of the Covid 19 pandemic.
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