Artist : Roger Thorp in collaboration with Jesse Leroy Smith
Title : Bardo
Medium : single channel video
Duration : 07:08


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Roger Thorp’s interest in the poetic use of word and image, to evoke a deep emotional response, are key to his creative process. His artworks are unapologetically infused with a nostalgic romanticism, transmitting an enormous sensitivity towards the earth, humanity and a universal inter-connectedness between matter and all living things. Primarily consisting of video work and multi-media installation, his work is informed by a deeply-felt belief that as a society, and as individuals, we need to come home, to remember a less rapacious and frenetic way of living, more connected on an emotional level to each other, and to the rest of the natural world. If his work offers up an urgent protest, it remains an optimistic and tender one. 

Thorp is a British artist who currently lives and works in Cornwall. He previously worked as a producer on music videos before directing / producing programmes for NGO’s such as WWF, ILO, Greenpeace and the Red Cross, working in Australia, Mongolia and the USA. He has also made two feature films. Other work by Thorp as a writer / director has been screened in Rome, Barcelona, Berlin, Oslo, Copenhagen, Istanbul, USA, Cornwall and London. In 2015 he founded ‘The Olive Network’ a sophisticated web platform built to foster tolerance and understanding throughout diverse global communities by focusing on the positive long-term contributions of charity, the arts and humanities. Thorp’s artwork has been exhibited extensively.