Joe King is an artist working across the field of moving image, using innovative techniques and animation to combine and manipulate photography, film, video and sound. His work moves between single screen and multimedia gallery installations. His films have been screened around the world, broadcast internationally and have won awards both at home and abroad.
Joe King studied Film and Photography at the International Film School Wales and Animation at the Royal College of Art. He has been a tutor in the Animation programme since 2001.
Joe King's films and videos have received funding from Film London's Artists' Film and Video Awards, S4C, Sgrin, Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, BBC Radio 4 and the Arts Council.
His films have been nominated for, and won, prizes including the Jerwood Moving Image Award 2008, SXSW Film Festival (USA, 2006), Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA, 2006), Hull International Film Festival (UK, 2006), Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal (Canada, 2006) and 25 fps (Croatia, 2006).
Co-founder of Folk///projects, he is also a director for the production company Slinky Pictures. Other areas of his practice include editing and sound design. He lives and works in Essex and London.