Foster has long been fascinated by the intricacy of the human visual system and how it can be fooled by optical illusion. In 1981 he built a walk-in film installation for his degree show that used projected imagery and large mirrors to incorporate its viewers into an infinite panorama.
He worked in London for several years, honing his filmmaking skills as an animation cameraman at the BBC and then chief lighting cameraman at Europe's largest motioncontrol film facility. In 1993 he joined the renowned Blink Productions as a commercials director. He filmed all over the globe and won some of the top awards in the industry including D&AD, BTAA and Creative Circle Golds and Silvers.
In 2006 Foster started using newly available technologies to realise some of his earlier ambitions. He created a series of finely crafted, high-definition and stereoscopic video installations featuring cyclical narratives in his Human Experime ts series. Foster has exhibited at The Mill (2006), The David Roberts Collection (2007),The Fine Art Society (2008) and in The Old Vic Tunnels with Tunnel 228 (2009) and Hell's Half Acre (2010).
Commissioned by Protein, a new film by Doug Foster entitled 'OVUM' debuted on Channel 4 last night. Paired with music by UNKLE, 'OVUM' focuses on the symmetry of the reproductive process when the mother nucleus tears itself into two identical daughter nuclei. Check it out on Channel 4's website.
Last week, Doug Foster debuted his latest video installation, this time crossing over into the world of Street Art. On view in the windows of Finish, one of the UK's leading post-production companies, Doug's 'Convolver' was commissioned to make best use of their large Wardour Street facing window. Working with the exisiting architectural elements of the 27-paned window, the piece was created by filming a variety of lighting effects, liquids and moving textures. Foster's latest work strives to draw attention to the window in a gentle and beguiling way, without imposing itself on the street. For more information, please visit the artist's website.
After various trips around Ireland Conor is back in London working hard on his brand new pieces for The Minotaur opening at The Old Vic Tunnels on the 10th October, alongside other Lazarides artists: Antony Micallef, Jonathan Yeo, Doug Foster, Stanley Donwood etc.
