Stuart Croft

Stuart Croft was a British artist and filmmaker whose films often focused on themes of power, recurrence, entrapment and desire. He studied at Newcastle Polytechnic, Wimbledon College of Art and Chelsea College of Art in London, graduating with an MA in 1998.

His dialogue-based, character-driven films explored the relationships between art and cinema and his works have been presented as installations or single-screen projections within galleries, contemporary art museums and cinemas. The films have been shown in over 25 countries to date.

Croft was the subject of multiple solo exhibitions, cinema surveys and group shows and also a regular recipient of various production awards, research grants and commissions. He taught fine art and film internationally, and in 2009 founded the Royal College of Art’s Moving Image Studio. In 2013 he also established the RCA’s new Moving Image Pathway until his death from heart failure in March 2015. 

The Stuart Croft Foundation was established in September 2015 to build on Croft's legacy and increase public understanding and knowledge of contemporary moving image practice.