London based multimedia artist Josh Spindler has exhibited globally since graduating from the Royal College of Art, with his film ‘Margaret Gallagher is real’ winning him the Grand Prize in the Nikon Photo Contest 2023 and earned him a place in the CIRCA x DAZED Class of 2021, with the piece being shown on the largest public screens in London, Tokyo and Seoul.
Born in England in 1990, now working from London, he grew alongside society's transition to settling in the Global Village allowing Spindler to experience enough of both lives for it to impact his practice. Growing parallel with the introduction of the Internet as a child helped Spindler grow with a joint understanding of on and offline processes which bled into his approach to art. Due to this he creates moving image with knowledge of traditions but with the hunger for innovation, never buckling to trend based work but also never ignoring the progressive nature of digital moving image today.
As an eclectic lens based artist, Spindler has made work ranging from feature length found footage documentary, short form experimental moving image to conceptual narrative based films and animations and journalistic travel photography. His current practice uses an ultraviolet shooting technique with converted full-spectrum camera. It visualises his speculative future where the world looks uncanny and is covered in a viscous shadow. This creates his trademark sense of melancholy in the mundane as he lets the concept trap the audience within a frame of inescapable hypocrisy as they watch a future that might not be too far off. He is always looking for the emotional perspective, adding levity to his works through his empathetic eye.