I have been an artist and magical practitioner since the late 1970s. My first major exhibited works were a series of explorations of the links between the lunar cycle and my own experience of menstrual time (eg Water Into Wine, 1978-80). My world view is an animist one in which everything has its own indwelling spirit and the more than human is honoured and assumes a central place. In recent works I have sought to give the more than human agency in the making of the work.
I grew up in Ynys Mon (Anglesey), and much of my work for the last fifty years has originated on the island. It is a place that is peripheral in every way, betwixt and between in time as well as space, where everything is the present. The origin stories of its landscape features are the same as those told a thousand years ago and recorded in The Mabinogion: carved megaliths were dropped by a giantess; a pair of holy wells mark the meeting place of two battling saints; a huge black rock on the shore is the grave of a god.
Recent work includes photographic sequences, image + text, found and repurposed objects, moving image and artist’s books. These works originate in long trance walks, led by figures from the spirit world that I first encountered in childhood that inhabit miles of inhospitable crow-haunted beaches, deserted dunes and salt marshes, liminal lakes and sacred wells. In the Welsh tales, Annwn, the otherworld or spirit world exists somehow inside our own world. These walks with my tutelary spirits are forays into Annwn, the deep imaginal, resulting in new works; treasure brought back into the everyday world. The works are not planned in advance but are co-created with the more than human, shaped by place and weather, and chance finds and encounters.
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Judith Noble is Professor of Film and the Occult at Arts University Plymouth (UK), and an artist for whom the practice of magic is central to the work. Her early film and installation works included Water Into Wine, 1980 and Sea Dreams, 1981. Her research centres on artists’ moving image, Surrealism, the occult and work by women artists. Her continuing practice as an artist includes text+image, artist’s book and mixed media/ textile pieces created through trance work, spirit possession and interaction with the more than human. Her most recent film is Fire Spells (2022), a collaboration with director Tom Chick. Her current work can be found at www.iseu.space, and her artist’s books at fieldsystem.co.uk. Her earlier film work is distributed by Cinenova. She writes on the practice of witchcraft under the pen name Levannah Morgan, and her latest book, A Witch’s Year, is published by Robert Hale.
I grew up in Ynys Mon (Anglesey), and much of my work for the last fifty years has originated on the island. It is a place that is peripheral in every way, betwixt and between in time as well as space, where everything is the present. The origin stories of its landscape features are the same as those told a thousand years ago and recorded in The Mabinogion: carved megaliths were dropped by a giantess; a pair of holy wells mark the meeting place of two battling saints; a huge black rock on the shore is the grave of a god.
Recent work includes photographic sequences, image + text, found and repurposed objects, moving image and artist’s books. These works originate in long trance walks, led by figures from the spirit world that I first encountered in childhood that inhabit miles of inhospitable crow-haunted beaches, deserted dunes and salt marshes, liminal lakes and sacred wells. In the Welsh tales, Annwn, the otherworld or spirit world exists somehow inside our own world. These walks with my tutelary spirits are forays into Annwn, the deep imaginal, resulting in new works; treasure brought back into the everyday world. The works are not planned in advance but are co-created with the more than human, shaped by place and weather, and chance finds and encounters.
bio
Judith Noble is Professor of Film and the Occult at Arts University Plymouth (UK), and an artist for whom the practice of magic is central to the work. Her early film and installation works included Water Into Wine, 1980 and Sea Dreams, 1981. Her research centres on artists’ moving image, Surrealism, the occult and work by women artists. Her continuing practice as an artist includes text+image, artist’s book and mixed media/ textile pieces created through trance work, spirit possession and interaction with the more than human. Her most recent film is Fire Spells (2022), a collaboration with director Tom Chick. Her current work can be found at www.iseu.space, and her artist’s books at fieldsystem.co.uk. Her earlier film work is distributed by Cinenova. She writes on the practice of witchcraft under the pen name Levannah Morgan, and her latest book, A Witch’s Year, is published by Robert Hale.