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Maybelle Peters
Maybelle Peters is a London-based artist and filmmaker working in film, CGI and crafting techniques. She is interested in allegorical tales and myth-making, gleaning stories from objects and personal rituals to explore storytelling, narrative structures and documentary filmmaking. Her practice explores the movement of black bodies in time and space using an archive of ephemera, gestures and sounds. She gained her bachelor’s degree in animation at Farnham where she made her first commissioned film for BBC2. Her Channel 4-commissioned film, Mama Lou, has been shown extensively at animation festivals including Annecy, Ottawa and the Edinburgh Film Festival. She is the recipient of the inaugural Womxn of Colour Art Award 2020. Her moving image work has been shown at Visions in the Nunnery 2020, Bow Arts, London and Alchemy Film and Video Festival 2023 in Hawick, Scotland. Currently a practice-based Ph.D. student at UCA Farnham, her research interests are extractivism and motion capture technology which she uses to examine the spatial and temporal positioning of blackness as a form of animation.
Contact: UCA Doctoral College, Rochester House, St George’s Place, Canterbury, CT1 1UT, UK.