Lol
Sargent

Lol studied MA Fine Art at the Royal College of Art, then was a Senior Research Fellow in Audio Visual, during which time he began exhibiting his projection and sound installation works at various UK and European spaces and events, including London venues; The Air Gallery, The Diorama Arts, The Piccadilly Film Festival at BAFTA, and the International Mystery Film Festival in Venice, and later created projection works for a number of contemporary dance collaborations performing at The Dance Umbrella London, the Third Eye Centre Glasgow, and at the Berlin Arts Festival. Also during that time (from 1986) Lol was Tutor of Audio Visual Production at the RCA and finally Tutor of Time Based Arts (until 1999), and was made a Fellow of the RCA in 1991. Alongside his MA teaching he continued to create fine art installation projects, including in 1993, 'Vinyl Requiem' a major UK Arts Council funded projection and sound work in collaboration with turntable artist/composer Philip Jeck, which was performed in London, Gent and Hamburg, and won the 1993 Time Out London Dance & Performance Award for Best Site Specific Event. In 2014 he and Jeck embarked on a 21st anniversary tour (‘Vinyl Requiem (Replayed)') as a large-scale digital projection with live accompaniment by Jeck. In 2016 Lol returned to teaching at the RCA as a visiting lecturer on the new established MA Digital Direction course. His ‘Procreation: Adam and Eve’ installation was exhibited at the 2019 Venice Biennale and in 2020 at the Time and Timelessness Festival in Alderburgh UK and the diptych film version won Best Senior Director at the 2022 London Director Awards. His short film (moving portrait) 'Peter, Shirley and Louis' was long listed for the 2020 Lumen Prize Digital Art moving image prize, won Best Director at the 2021 Amsterdam World International Film Festival and long listed for the 2022 Aesthetica Art Prize.