A selection of art works exploring nuclear power and related themes. Click on the photo/video link for more on each artist and do contact us and let us know if there are other works you think we should feature here (Please note: the following videos have no connection to Tenner Films' own work other than a shared subject matter)
SIMON HOLLINGTON & KYPROS KYPRIANOU
The Nightwatchman (British Atomic Nuclear Group) (2008)
An immersive installation exploring the changing perceptions of the nuclear power industry over its 50 year history. "a darkly humorous journey from hard-nosed PR to a logical hysteria." Part of the Arts Catalyst exhibition 'Nuclear: Art & Radioactivity'
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CHRIS OAKLEY
Half Life (2008)
Film looking at the histories of Harwell, birthplace of the UK nuclear industry, and the new development of fusion energy technology at the Culham facility in Oxfordshire. Part of the Arts Catalyst exhibition 'Nuclear: Art & Radioactivity'
DAVID FAITHFULL
Tornado Series (2007)
A series of prints, multiples and artists books investigating the crash site of a RAF Tornado F3 crash near Torness Nuclear Power Station, 25 miles SE of Edinburgh on the 18th of November 1999.
KATE WILLIAMS & JOHN LLOYD
Nuclear Power Station Project (2006)
A series of sculptures made out of uranium glass featuring real and fictional nuclear power stations (Dounreay in Scotland, Sizewell in England and Springfield from The Simpsons).
MARK AERIAL WALLER
Glow Boys (1998)
A video installation filmed at some of Britain's nuclear power stations, about itinerant nuclear power workers who mysteriously develop superhuman qualities. Featuring Mark E. Smith of The Fall. Part of the Arts Catalyst exhibition 'Atomic'.
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Landmark trilogy of personal filmmaking. Flickering through rapid-fire montage and turning the camera onto herself, Lahire finds disturbing metaphors for the body in nuclear power.
JAMES ACORD
Various works - ongoing
James Acord is an artist who works directly with radioactive materials. He attempts to create sculpture and events that probe the history of nuclear engineering. For 15 years, he lived on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, at one time home to nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium-processing complexes and the most contaminated nuclear site in the United States. One major project was his ambition to build a 'nuclear Stonehenge' on a heavily contaminate site at Hanford, incorporating twelve uranium breeder-blanket assemblies. Acord is the only private individual in the world licensed to own and handle radioactive materials for artistic use, and acquired possession of fresh (ie unused) nuclear rods as part of his artistic materials.
YAISHI HIROKAWA
Still Crazy (1994)
An exhibition of photographs of the 53 nuclear reactors built on the coast of Japan, each marked with the date the image was taken. According to Hirokawa, ‘This exhibition is the first half of a project that will be completed by someone taking photographs of the same locations half a century from now.' This is because those nuclear plants will have to be disassembled about forty years hence.
HENRY MOORE
Nuclear Energy (1967)
14ft-high bronze sculpture at the site of world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, at the University of Chicago. The location commemorates the exact spot where the Manhattan Project team carried out the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction and was dedicated at precisely 3:36 p.m. on December 2, 1967, 25 years exactly after the first splitting of the atom on the grounds.
