More than 70 hours of footage shot over 10 days were pared down to a 20-minute film with a score by British composer Ed Hughes.
[7] Nicolass Till, who writes frequently on the opera, says that it presents the stage as "a space of revelation that at the same time implies a concealed other.
The audio captured fragments of conversations between the spectators waiting for the river to rise, "a collection of very human stories that touch upon mistakes, failure, desire, loss, ambivalence and resentment... a prolonged encounter with the momentary reversal in the flow of things.
Selected solo shows include:[1] Selected group exhibitions include:[1] Monographs Anthologies and group exhibition catalogues 2012 – Artist Associate-ship, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK 2010 – Recipient of AHRC Practice Led Research Grant 2009 – Winner of Icona 09, Verona Art Fair, Verona, Italy 2008 – Recipient of Development Grant, Film and Video Umbrella, UK 2003 – Recipient of Mont Blanc Cutting Edge Award to Artists 2002 – Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford 2002 – Arts Council of England, Helen Chadwick Fellowship, hosted by The British School at Rome / Ruskin School, Oxford 2000 – Fellowship at DCA, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK 1999 – BMW Financial Services Millennium Commission in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK Sophy Rickett's work is included in the following public collections.
[4] Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Government Art Collection, UK Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, Nantes, France Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig, Germany Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK