Artist : Roger Thorp
Title : Exposure
Medium : single channel video (duration 03:28)


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‘Exposure’ is a video work which was filmed primarily at the Russian Embassy in London and the poppy fields of France. The poem of the same name written by Wilfred Owen is read by Roger Thorp’s close friend, the actor David Sibley, who once played Owen in a BBC2 Playhouse production ‘The Fatal Spring’ (New York Film and TV Festival Gold award, Nato Peace prize). Owen’s great anger and considerable compassion struck Sibley as being just as relevant now as ever. Sibley and Thorp entered in to a dialogue about a visual element to accompany the reading which resulted in this pertinent work. The mantra “Lest We Forget” is metaphorically juxtaposed against a reminder of the current atrocities being committed in the Ukraine by Vladimir Putin and his supporters.

Thorp is a British artist born in Derbyshire. He 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.