Dance of Ordinariness is artist, Trevor Appleson's innovative film installation, paying homage to Kingston-born photographer, Eadweard Muybridge at the Stanley Picker Gallery this autumn.

Part of the Muybridge in Kingston programme of exhibitions which is supporting a major retrospective at Tate Britain, the piece was launched in tandem with Muybridge Revolutions, Kingston Museum's new exhibition which features an unprecedented showcase of Muybridge's rarely seen Zoöpraxiscope discs and examines Muybridge's contribution to the development of the moving image.

Muybridge remains a source of inspiration to artists across a range of artistic disciplines and Appleson's work has always been informally influenced by Muybridge's iconic practice of capturing momentary actions in semi-staged environments.

The chance to work with Kingston Museum's unique collection of rare material which was bequethed to his hometown by Muybridge himself encouraged Appleson to use moving image for the very first time.

Appleson says: "Looking at Muybridge’s work I was struck by the dramatic devices he employed, the miniature narratives he was telling through the collotypes. Pre-cinema, this must have seemed so radical to audiences telling stories through sequences of images, taken fractions of a second apart.

“I started considering the ways in which this might function within my own work, and began to think about introducing a kind of simple choreography of the everyday."

Dance of Ordinariness was developed with the help of artists from The London Contemporary Dance School. Appleson asked dancers to reinterpret some of the actions Muybridge studied in his original motion studies. The result is an exploration of the relationship between author, performer and observer through a combination of gesture and choreographed movement.

Trever Appleson Dance of Ordinariness, Stanley Picker Gallery, Faculty of Art, Design & ArchitectureKingston University, Knights Park, September 18- November 13. Call 020 8417 4074 or visit muybridgeinkingston.com for more information.