Jules Arthur
Jules Arthur is a musician, producer, artist and curator, and is the Creative Director of Beatabet LLP. As a co-founder of Beatabet in 2001 he has organised and promoted many Audio-Visual events around the UK (London, Oxford, Edinburgh, Brighton). Beatabet has now blossomed into a fully-fledged record label as well as a collective of 40 artists, musicians, videographers and physical theatre practitioners. He devised, organises and runs the backbone of Beatabet's activities: Beatafarm, a yearly 4 month creative residency program/peer-to-peer summer school in France, where he is in charge of the main recording studio, runs the budget, co-ordinates the participants and runs workshops.
Jules is a director of Gos CIC, a newly-formed productions company whose aim is to facilitate international artistic collaboration; the Baltic States are it's main area of operation. Gos CIC is currently in talks with Lanebet and The Authors Collective, both Latvian creative organisations, with the aim of setting up a series of collaborative shows with Beatabet LLP. Jules curates multimedia exhibitions; his latest projects include a festival within a festival for brighton fringe '08, several AV events around Brighton and he is one of the project co-ordinators for 'Brussels Meets Brighton' a multi-disciplinary event to be held in Shunt, London.
Jules is a multi-instrumentalist; he plays piano (diploma level), violin (grade 8), viola (grade 8), guitar, synthesisers and most recently mbira. As an artist he has had a sell-out solo painting exhibition (2002, Winchester), and has participated in many group shows including submitting a sound installation for 'Atomic Art Bomb', Modern Art Oxford (2004). In 2006 he came runner up in the British Academy of Composers and Songwriters' songwriting Contest with 'Sexy Gottedamerung' a song he and beatabet co-wrote and produced.
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