Robert Page
Robert Page is an artist-filmmaker whose work blurs the boundaries between documentary filmmaking and fine art, predominantly focusing on human activity in and on the environment.
Robert Page describes his work as a fusion of documentary filmmaking and fine art and in recent years this has become increasingly focused on the human impact, both positive and negative, on the environment. He constantly draws inspiration from the people he meets and crucially the stories that we all have to tell; the experiences that make us and shape us, as a society and as individuals.
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First, simply I look, taking time to observe, and only when I have a true sense of the subject, I use the camera to capture and share, often unfiltered, that which I see with the unknown viewer.
Robert Page
Prizes/ Awards
2023
- OCEANUS, Official Selection, Scottish Landscape Awards, Scottish Arts Trust, Edinburgh, UK
2022
- INTO THE OCEANIC documentary, Official Selection, Mysuru International Water Festival, Mysuru, India
2019
- INTO THE OCEANIC artwork, Creative Scotland, Continuing Professional Deelopment Fund
2009
- THE YES MEX FIX THE WORLD documentary, Audience Award, Berlin International Film Festival, Germany
- THE YES MEX FIX THE WORLD documentary, DOC U! Award, Amsterdam Documentary Festival, Netherlands
- THE YES MEX FIX THE WORLD documentary, Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, USA
2008
- EARLY STAGE DEMENTIA SERVICE documentary, Angus Council Innovation Award, UK
2005
- CULTURAL QUARTER artwork, Sphinx Award, Videomedeja, 9th International Video
Festival, Serbia & Montenegro
2004
- CULTURAL QUARTER artwork, Second Prize, VIDEOEX Experimental Film & Video Festival, Zurich, Switzerland
- CULTURAL QUARTER artwork, No Budget Prize, 20th International Short Film Festival, Hamburg, Germany
2004
- CORNERSHOP artwork, AltW Award for online artwork
2003
- CULTURAL QUARTER artwork, First Prize, Echigo Tsumari Trienalle, Echigo Tsumari, Japan
Current projects
2024 – 2025
INTO THE OCEANIC, artwork and documentary
Long term collaborative project with environmental artist
Elizabeth Ogilvie comprising a series of exhibitions around
Europe, exploring the topic of blue carbon
2025 – 2026
MC NASTY: THE GEORGE BERWICK STORY, documentary
A film exploring the life and legacy of 84 year old endurance cycling champion, George “McNasty” Berwick
2024 – 2027
FJORD, documentary and artwork
A long term environmental project exploring Scottish
Fjords, captured using the latest aerial drone technology
Past projects (selected)
2023
BEYOND THE ARCHIVE, documentary
Film about performance art pioneer Alastair MacLennan
2022
SYLVIA WISHART, documentary
Film late artists Sylvia Wishart, commissioned by
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust
2020
TIME TO FLY, documentary (camera)
BBC Scotland and Scottish Documentary Institute coproduction
about a young woman with learning difficulties
2019
FORGIVEMESS, artwork (camera)
Collaboration with artist Carrie Fertig on the subject of loss
2017
THE FIRST WHOLE BODY MRI SCANNER, documentary
Full length film looking at The Mark 1, designed and built
in Aberdeen in the 1980’s.
2018
OUT OF ICE: ELIZABETH OGILVIE, documentary
Film exploring the life and recent work of environmental
artist Elizabeth Ogilvie
2014/15
OUT OF ICE, documentaries
A series of films exploring changing sea ice in east
Greenland, as told by the Inuit who live there
Exhibitions | Installations (selected)
2025
- CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, DAS ESSZIMMER – Raum für Kunst+ , Bonn, Germany
- CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, Las Condes Cultural Centre, Santiago, Chile
- CONVERSATION WITH OUR OCEAN, Art Spot Korin Kyoto, Japan
2024
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Circular Thinking on Cultural and Environmental Sustainability Conference, University of Iceland, Reykjavik
- OUT OF ICE films, VANISHING LANDMARKS FESTIVAL, University of Westminster, London
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Installation, Kaname Art Spot Korin, Kyoto, Japan
- INTO THE OCEANIC prints, Fleming Collection Group Show: This Fragile Earth, University of Stirling, UK
2023
- OCEANUS, Scottish Landscape Awards, City Art Centre, Edinburgh, UK
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Installation and film screening, The Umbrella Art Centre, Concord, Massachusetts, United States
- BODIES OF WATER, video triptych, Z33 House for Contemporary Art, Design & Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium
- INTO THE FLOE, Coventry Cathedral, Fleming Collection Group Show: This Fragile Earth
2022
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Projections & seminars, Institute of Marine Sciences (CNR-ISMAR), Arsenale, Venice Biennale, Italy
2021
- INTO THE OCEANIC, Installations/projections, COP26, Glasgow, UK
2020
- OUT OF ICE, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, UK
2019
- MEANDER | Homage to the River Tay, Permanent outdoor film projection. Major commission Perth and Kinross Council City
2018
- CLOUDGATE, Public Art Commission, Forth Valley Hospital, Falkirk, UK
- LAND THROUGH WHICH DREAMS FLOW, Public Art Commission, Forth Valley Hospital, Falkirk, UK
2015
- INSTALLATIONS, Roman Signrer, Installations, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, UK
2014
- OUT OF ICE: THE SECRET LANGUAGE OF ICE, Elizabeth Ogilvie exhibition, Ambika P3, London, UK
Film screenings (selected)
2022
- INTO THE OCEANIC documentary, Mysuru International Water Festival, Mysuru, India
2021
- TIME TO FLY documentary, Scottish Documentary Institute, Edinburgh, UK
2020
- OUT OF ICE documentary, Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, UK
- National Science Foundation Funding, US Film launch/ installation, Washington DC
2019
- OUT OF ICE documentary, Ca’Dolphin, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice Biennale, Italy
2018
- OUT OF ICE documentary, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
- OUT OF ICE documentary, Arctic Circle Assembly, Harpa, Reykjavik, Iceland
- OUT OF ICE documentary, Ca’ Foscari University, Venice Biennale, Italy
2019
- TIME TO FLY documentary, BBC Scotland & BBC iPlayer, UK
2018
- EUROPA: INK-BLOT TEST, John Berger Festival, Padova, Italy
- EUROPA: INK-BLOT TEST, Morrab Library, Penzance, UK
2017
- THE FIRST WHOLE BODY MRI SCANNER documentary
