Neville Gabie

The Work

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Olympic Park Artist in Residence – selection of works

Over a sixteen month period Neville Gabie developed a series of work. These included;

Every Seat in the Stadium – a six monitor video installation which documents Neville Gabie’s attempt to sit on every seat in the Olympic Park Stadium Freeze Frame – the recreation of Seurats Bathers at Asnieres on the Olympic Park using site staff. The work was made public and distributed using the Metro Newspaper  9.58 – a video work, duration 9.58 seconds which shows 239 portraits of stadium construction workers Twelve Seventy – a film documenting bus driver, Semra Yusuf swimming 1270 metres in the Olympic pool. Unearthed – an exhibition of artworks from former Carpenters Road Studios artists. The studios occupied the site which is now the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park. A Volume of Water Drunk in the Olympic Pool for You43.6 Minute MileJump

Twelve Seventy from Neville Gabie on Vimeo.

Every seat in the stadium from Neville Gabie on Vimeo.

9.58 from Neville Gabie on Vimeo.

A website dedicated website to the project www.greatlengths2012.org.uk