Our work Our creative programme Adam Reynolds Award Online premiere: Ernie Maltby's Vyhod/exit 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. Vyhod/exit - Ernie Maltby Premiering Friday 28 February 2025 About the film A surreal and kaleidoscopic meander through strained memories of prevailing state complicity, by a UK-based emerging artist and filmmaker. Reflecting on growing up in Russia, ambivalence & grief surrounding home and healthcare enmesh in echoes of planned negligence, conditioned immunity to war, and erasure of communities. Scavenged materials, whirring scraps of machinery and interrogatory lighting are forged into life in corners of domesticity against a boiling musical score to create a modern fairytale. Ernie Maltby Ernie Maltby is a visual artist and animator based in East Devon. Their practice is influenced by the complexities among the dislocating and transitional experiences of migration, bodily autonomy, loss, and disability. Maltby primarily focuses on themes surrounding the exploration of space and the heartbreak that surrounds it, how we occupy and engage with it geophysically, and what it means to exist in the space of your own body. These dichotomies create ground for exploration using performative introspectiveness, examining home and belonging within an unrecognisable self-identity. Booking for this event has now closed. Manage Cookie Preferences