Vernon Bradley: Dimittit In Artes live streaming on YouTube on Friday at 8.30pm.

This Friday, 28th June 2024, sees the online premiere of the film Martin Laird has made with fellow Orkney artist Vernon Bradley, Dimittit In Artes. You can join the two for an “arty farty watch party“, live streamed at 8.30pm via Martin’s YouTube channel. Click the image above or the following link to be taken directly to the scheduled watch page:

https://www.youtube.com/live/KwvDyvN52PY?si=mAmZAue6nzF6bDXW

The film will not be available to watch online after the fact so, if you have an interest in art, don’t miss it! The pair are proud of how the film has come together, and are seeking wider distribution for it.

Dimittit In Artes takes its title from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, an epic poem concerning the act of creation which was also famously referenced by James Joyce in his experimental novel A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The film is about Vernon’s work, mortality, and the artistic struggle in general, presented as a discussion between the artist and an immortal spirit.

Click here to read a review of the film by Eamonn Keyes for The Orkney News, written following its premiere in Stromness on the 7th of June.