Our work Our creative programme Adam Reynolds Award Online premiere: Tilly PM's Peel As part of our 2023 Adam Reynolds Award Shortlist programme, we commissioned three artists - Djofray Makumbu, Tilly PM, and Ernie Maltby - to create new animated films under the title Paradise, Lost. Over the coming month, we will be premiering these films for the first time. The mind is its own place, and in it self Can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n… John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1667 The three animations in Paradise, Lost - using claymation, stop motion, and digital techniques - respond creatively to the theme of ‘failed utopias’. Confronting the tension between expectation and reality, these compelling new works offer raw takes on the stories handed down to us by society, remodelling ‘paradise’ to make sense of a changing world. All films are captioned and audio described. Please note, you will only be able to watch the films (in any format) once they have been premiered. Peel - Tilly PM Premiering Friday 14 February 2025 About the film What is left behind through our shed skins? What tales and truths do they tell? Humour and fear are delicately entangled in this poetic story inspired by Scottish and Irish folklore. Taking the viewpoint of a Selkie, a creature able to move between seal and human forms, it draws on traditions wherein the fisherman might take the Selkie’s skin in order to keep her trapped in the human form he so desired, but could not stop her longing for the sea. Using photography as well as fragmented papery and fish scale collages, Tilly PM explores the ancient roots of storytelling that surround water-locked land and grapple with the mortality of the sea. Tilly PM Tilly is excited by narrative story telling and the delicate entanglement of humour and fear, looking at visceral senses through horror. They’re excited by mystical mundanity, the gaps around us (metaphorical and physical) being a seedbed of fantasy of self, objects and our surroundings. They work with collage as a way to try and make physical objects/ 3D/ animation have fun and play! Tilly has worked with The White Pube, Arebyte, Shape Arts, QUAD, and they are currently a committee member at Market Gallery, Glasgow.d, but could not stop her longing for the sea. Booking for this event has now closed. Manage Cookie Preferences