Stephen Rudder
Stephen Rudder is an artist Born in London to Caribbean parents, Stephen Rudder is an award-winning audio-visual artist and founder of Quiet Voice productions. His practice combines diverse and often unheard voices with multimedia to bring a quality of deep insight to his work. Rudder’s past film work includes This is Your History, the opening feature of the permanent and internationally recognised London, Sugar and Slavery gallery at the Museum of London, Docklands; Body Beyond Death, a film commissioned by Wellcome Collection and the Museum of London; Stories of the World, a digital film promoting the collective London Museum’s contribution to the 2012 Cultural Olympiad; Ethiopian Renaissance a commission by UNESCO to document contemporary artists working in Ethiopia and promote the UNESCO International Convention; and Mission to the Land of Misplaced Memories, an experimental documentation of a week-long Afro-futurist project at Tate Britain in collaboration with WriteTalkListen and Dubmorphology. His installation work includes; ToughBlood and Black Men’s Minds. ToughBlood is an interdisciplinary live art performance piece combining multimedia. It explores sickle cell anaemia and was first performed in September 2017 at the Copeland Gallery in Peckham and was part of Science Gallery London’s ‘BLOOD’ Season. The immersive audio-visual installation Black Men’s Minds was developed in response to statistics showing the disproportionate numbers of black men sectioned under the mental health act. The piece has been exhibited in November 2019 and October 2021 at Black Cultural Archives, London and in April 2022 will be installed at the Bethlem Gallery and will feature as part of the PSYCHE season at Science Gallery Bengaluru, India.
