Devlin Crow

Devlin Crow - film director and artist




After graduating from film school in Wales in 1994. Devlin animated and directed The Anatomist's Notebook, which won the Mayer Trencin Award for Craft at the International Art Film Festival Trencianske Teplice - Slovakia and was nominated for the Post Office Mc Laren Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Animation Award at the Meridiens - 3rd European Film Forum in France and went on a tour abroad to promote the best of animation, organised by the British Council.

Klasky Csupo creators of The Simpsons, "The Anatomist is a beautiful film, we are very taken with it".


His first professional animated short was for Channel Four/Arts Council, Expelling the Demon, starring Steven Berkoff and Lindsay Duncan with an original score by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. It was screened in 11 countries accompanying The Ring (the Japanese horror feature) in the theatrical UK screenings and won the Best Professional Film Debut at the Krok International Animated Film Festival and was premiered at Nick Caves Meltdown Festival at the Southbank, London in 1999. Screening and talk on the grotesque in animation, held at Tambaimo's Japanese artist's solo show at the Parasol Unit at the Foundation of Co...

Went to the Art College in Brighton and attended the Newport College of Art and Design and received a Distinction in film-making/animation.

Work has been exhibited at:

Lux Cinema, Hoxton Square, London
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
The Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Undercover Surrealism Exhibition, Hayward Gallery, London
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Royal Festival Hall on the Southbank, London
London Sotheby's oldest and largest fine art auctioners, London
Royal College of Art, London
National Cinema Museum Turin, Italy
Bilbolbul International Comic Festival Bologna, Spain
Marina Abramovic Foundation's in Paris and Amsterdam
Reading Room Gallery, London
Twelve Works - Christies art auction - Devlin's artworks included in auction, alongside Peter Blake, Paula Rego, Tessa Farmer and Grayson Perry works.

Film-work is in the Arts Council England and BFI National Film Archive and the Arvo Part Foundation.


Artworks in the private collections of:

Sir Peter Blake
Pete Townshend of "The Who
Paula Rego
Andy Serkis
Nicolas Roeg.
Derek Birkett, Bjork's record label