FLAMIN Productions Round 12
Research image for Deep Storage. Photograph by Maeve Brennan (2025).
Film London is pleased to announce the recipient of the 2025 FLAMIN Productions award. Artist filmmaker Maeve Brennan will receive funding, tailored support and mentoring as she develops her new moving image project, Deep Storage.
FLAMIN Productions aims to support the most exciting, innovative and challenging moving image projects. The only scheme of its kind in the UK, FLAMIN Productions commissions new, important and substantial moving image artworks that are ambitious in premise and duration, with an emphasis on projects that have strong potential for national and international exhibition and distribution. The artist will receive funding of £40,000 to produce their project, alongside ongoing development support.
Adrian Wootton OBE, Chief Executive of Film London and the British Film Commission, said: “It is vital that we continue to support and champion artists exploring and challenging creative practices and perceptions. Now in its twelfth round, FLAMIN Productions has a reputation for supporting artists seeking to push themselves, their work and the boundaries of moving image. We are thrilled to award Maeve Brennan funding for her ambitious new project, adding to the impressive slate generated by FLAMIN Productions. I would like to thank Arts Council England for their support of this invaluable scheme.”
Research image for Deep Storage. Photograph by Maeve Brennan (2025).
Maeve Brennan, Deep Storage
Deep Storage will excavate the layered histories embedded in the Winsford salt mine, the oldest and largest working mine in the UK. Discovered in 1844 by prospectors searching for coal, the salt repository was formed by the residue left behind by an ocean that covered this part of the earth 200 million years ago. With a naturally occurring dry atmosphere and consistent ambient temperature perfect for the preservation of paper, parts of the salt mine have been converted into a deep storage facility, holding materials from the National Archives and The Royal Society alongside police records and treasured works of art.
Considered to be safe from future climate catastrophe, the mine not only represents the desire to document, archive and preserve, but also our inability to reckon with the ongoing processes of extraction that put our existence at risk. Through a forensic lens, Deep Storage will capture what is deemed worth preserving, while imagining a possible future in which these artefacts are discovered.
Maeve Brennan is an artist and filmmaker based in London. Her practice investigates the accretion of meaning in material and place as people act to maintain or disturb, to excavate or conceal. Working across moving image, installation, sculpture and printed matter, her works excavate layered histories, revealing the unseen or hidden structures that determine our lived environment. She develops long-term investigations led by personal encounters, often drawing on forms of expertise that encompass a material practice – geologists, archaeologists, joy-riders, tomb-raiders – with a particular focus on repair.
Solo exhibitions include Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong; VISUAL Carlow, Ireland; Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, E-WERK Freiburg; Stanley Picker Gallery, London; Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin; Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku, Finland; Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; Chisenhale Gallery, London; Spike Island, Bristol; The Whitworth, Manchester. Brennan’s work was featured in British Art Show 9 (2021-22) and her films have been screened internationally at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; CPH:DOX; Open City Documentary Festival; International Film Festival Rotterdam; FILMADRID; Sheffield Doc Fest and Sonic Acts, Amsterdam. She was shortlisted for the Jarman Award 2024, CIRCA Prize 2024 and was awarded the Sainsbury Scholarship at the British School of Rome (2023). She was the Stanley Picker Fine Art Fellow (2019–22) and received the Paul Hamlyn Award for Artists (2021) and the Jerwood/FVU Award (2018). She is currently in residence at Somerset House Studios, London.
Deep Storage will be produced by LUX. It will be supported by Site Gallery, Sheffield, Sonic Acts, Amsterdam and LUX, and will premiere at Site Gallery in 2027.
LUX
LUX is a public arts organisation and accredited museum that supports and promotes visual artists working with the moving image. Based in London and Glasgow, it delivers a range of activities including commissioning, exhibitions, screenings, educational projects and research. It also manages Europe’s largest collection of films and videos made by artists and distributes them to museums, galleries and festivals around the world.
Site Gallery
Site Gallery is Sheffield’s leading international contemporary art space, supporting artists specialising in moving image, new media and performance. We connect people to artists and to art, inspiring new thinking and debate through our exhibitions, residencies, public programmes and extensive participatory activity.
Sonic Acts
Founded in 1994 to present new developments in electronic and digital art forms, Sonic Acts has gained prominence with its international biennial—an extensive art, theory, and technology gathering motivated by changes in the ecological, political, technological, and social landscape. Based in Amsterdam, Sonic Acts is a leading platform for international projects, research, and the commissioning and co-production of new artworks, working together with local and international partners such as independent and institutional cultural incubators, universities, and kindred organisations.
