Christopher Kennedy (artist)

Christopher Michael Graham Kennedy is an artist who was born and raised in the UK.

Kennedy spent many years as a music editor, working on over 50 Hollywood feature films in Los Angeles, California. He was nominated for one Emmy Award in 2009, for music editing on The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler,[1] and three Golden Reel Sound Awards for “Unfaithful,” “De-Lovely” and “Rameses”, and has collaborated with Jan AP Kaczmarek, composer of the Oscar-winning score for Finding Neverland.[2]

Kennedy moved to Bucks County Pennsylvania in 2002 to concentrate on fine art photography. He developed a technique which he calls Photo Luminism. Images are created entirely in-camera in a single exposure and with no creative post additions. The abstracted images are hot-printed onto specially treated metal, a process that maximises the appearance of light emanating from within the image, on an entirely flat and mirror-like surface. Photo Luminism is a term which references the Luminism movement of painting, to which Kennedy has family ties. He has adapted some of the principles of Luminism into a photographic-based contemporary idiom- particularly in his focus on the effects of light and a smoothing of surface.

Biography

Christopher Kennedy comes from a family of artists. His great grandfather was T. C. Farrer, a Ruskinian painter, who with his brother Henry Farrer, John William Hill and others, founded the American Pre-Raphaelite movement, called Society for the Advancement of Truth in Art. Kennedy's nephew is painter Damian Elwes and his sister is the interior designer Tessa Kennedy. His cousins, sisters Venetia Epler and Daphne Huntington, were Californian artists whose work is represented in several permanent collections such as the Mary Pickford Collection and the Richard Nixon Library. The sisters painted the original artwork for the world’s largest religious mosaic mural in Southern California as well as a portrait of President Dwight D. Eisenhower which hung in the White House.

References

  1. ↑ Emmys official website. Accessed 8 March 2014
  2. ↑ Film Music Society: "Muzyka do Filmu...Música de Cine...", February 28, 2005
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