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Award winning artist, filmmaker and Professor of Time Based Media at the University for the Creative Arts, Andrew Kötting, is coming to Lancaster University to deliver a workshop on Cultural Capital.

Andrew Kötting is an award winning artist, filmmaker and Professor of Time Based Media at UCA in Canterbury. After leaving school he worked as a scrap metal dealer and then a lumberjack in Scandinavia before returning to college to study Fine Art, graduating from The Slade in London. He has made over a hundred short films, which were awarded prizes at international film festivals and in 1996 he made his idiosyncratic first feature film Gallivant, a four month journey around the coast of Britain on which he was accompanied by his grandmother Gladys and daughter Eden. As well as the Paul Hamlyn Award he has been nominated for the Jarman Award Three times.

Subsequent feature films include include This Filthy Earth in 2001, Ivul in 2009, This is our Still Life in 2011, Swandown in 2012 and By Our Selves in 2015 (a collaboration with the writer Iain Sinclair and the actor Toby Jones). In 2016 he produced a new multi-media performance piece, Edith, which resulted in a feature-film. a book-work, a CD, an instillation and several performances. His feature film Lek And The Dogs was released by HOME in 2018 and will be followed up in 2020 by The Whalebone Box. He currently lives and works between Hastings on the south coast of England and the forests of Fougax-et-Barrineuf in the French Pyrenees.