Profile: Richard Ramchurn

Biography:

Born of mixed Mauritian Scottish heritage, Richard Ramchurn grew up in central Scotland in the 1980s-90s. He trained in illustration and animation at Manchester Met, UK. Cutting his teeth in the Manchester art scene of the early 00s; he produced live art performances and painting exhibitions always with an eye to evolve to film making. He uses current and vintage technologies in unconventional ways to produce his visual work for theatre and film. A continuing theme in his practice is the relationship between the beauty and the horror of human experience.