Devlin Crow.
Film Director, Animator, Illustrator and Artist.
After graduating from film school in Wales in 1994. Devlin completed The Anatomist's Notebook, which won the Mayer Trencin Award for Craft at the International Art Film Festival Trencianske Teplice - Slovakia and was nominated for the Post Office Mc Laren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and an Animation Award at the Meridiens 3rd European Film Forum in France and went on a tour abroad to promote the best of animation, organised by the British Council.
His first professional animated short was for Channel Four/Arts Council, Expelling the Demon, starring Steven Berkoff and Lindsay Duncan with an original score by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
It was screened in 11 countries accompanying The Ring (the Japanese horror feature by the Director Hideo Nakata) in the theatrical UK screenings and won the Best Professional Film Debut at the Krok International Animated Film Festival and was premiered at Nick Caves Meltdown Festival at the Southbank, London in 1999. Screening and talk on the grotesque in animation, held at Tambaimo's Japanese artist's solo show at the Parasol Unit at the Foundation of Contemporary Art, London.
Since then he has directed various films and worked with such luminaries as Christopher Lee (the actor) Julian Bleach M.C of Shockheaded Peter the Junk Opera and Toric in Terry Gilliam's feature Brothers Grimm, Richard O' Brien actor/writer and creator of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sir Peter Blake (the pop artist), Sir John Tavener (the classical composer), Teresa Salguerio of the Portuguese world music band Madredeus, Jocelyn Pook composer for Stanley Kubrick's score for his last feature Eyes Wides Shut, the classical/ comic actor Richard Briers and Andy Serkis.
Currently he is directing a 12 part film series "Word Made Flesh" with his artistic partner Kennedy Crow which explores the beauty of the spoken word. The series features respected poets, actresses, singers, composers, writers and artists talking about their faith/ personal beliefs and influences, such as - Sir Peter Blake the pop artist. Peter Blake with Badges homage (See Gallery section) used on Peter Blake's cover design for Oasis's Greatest Hits album, "Stop the Clocks". Buffy Saint Marie, singer -songwriter, musician, composer, visual artist, educator and social activist, Cornelia Parker sculpture and installation artist, Sir Christopher Lee the actor, Sir John Tavener the English classical composer and Steve Bell the political cartoonist. All of whom have been sitters for the series.
All proceeds are going towards supporting the work of the Multiple Sclerosis Society.
The actor and director/ playwright Kenneth Branagh is the patron for the series.
and also he is developing two feature proposals.
Work has been exhibited at:
"Loss of Innocence" - Reading Room - Soho, London
Lux Cinema, Hoxton Square, London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Undercover Surrealism Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank
London Sotheby's oldest and largest fine art auctioneers, London
Royal College of Art, London
National Cinema Museum Turin, Italy
Bilbolbul International Comic Festival Bologna, Spain
Marina Abramovic Foundation's in Paris and Amsterdam
Film-work is in the Arts Council England and BFI National Archive.