RESIDENCY 2026: FRANCIS SOLVEZ-WILSHAW

20-23 August 2026
Gallery open 1-5pm daily

Instagram: @francisolvezwilshawartist

Website: www.francisolvez-wilshaw.com

During my residency at the Crypt Gallery, I will explore the relationship between sound, moving image and the architecture of the crypt. My practice is concerned with memory, ritual, labour, power, environmental catastrophe within the complexities of my mixed Filipino–English identity. Often bringing personal experience, cultural histories and contrasting environments into dialogue.

I will develop a new video collage using Super 8 footage filmed during my most recent visit to my mother’s village in the Philippines, alongside photographs I took during the trip and selected found footage. The video will be developed in dialogue with an existing sound collage incorporating bamboo drum patterns derived from the Filipino tinikling dance, recorded intentionally to be heavier and more industrial, alongside recordings from religious fiestas, conversations in Cebuano and karaoke. Together, these elements bring rural and domestic experiences of the Philippines into dialogue with ideas of ritual, labour, memory and cultural inheritance.

I will project the video throughout the Crypt, allowing the footage to move across its different walls, surfaces and architectural features. I am interested in how the imagery can fragment, overlap and shift as it encounters the space, rather than existing as a fixed screen-based work. The Crypt’s subterranean architecture, low light and historical relationship to ritual and worship provide an active environment for testing these relationships between image, sound, material and space.