A Portrait of the Artist Jacqueline Stanley
Filmmaker Nichola Bruce makes a portrait,
of her mother, the artist Jacqueline Stanley.
Through a collage of small moments,
the film follows the life of a determined woman.
A painter, mother and grandmother.
Nichola Bruce works with the moving image. She films elements of her life almost every day and has an extensive archive of over 30 years of home movie.
Award winning Films include I Could Read The Sky with Dermot Healy, Stephen Rae, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Moonbug meeting the Apollo Astronauts, Buzz Aldrin, Wally Schirra, Rusty Schweickart and many others with Photographer Steve Pyke, Axis of Light co-director with Pia Getty, a film about 8 artists in response to conflict in the Middle East with Etel Adnan, Shirin Neshat, Mona Hatoum and others. More recently The Romance of Bricks. features the Artist Liz Finch, distributed by Heni. The Sun Feeds the Wind a three part moving image installation, with Sam Sharples was exhibited at Hastings Contemporary in 2025.
Featuring
Campbell Bruce, John Monague, Patrick J Murphy,
Malcom Stanley, Robert Ballagh, Harold Fish, Angela Flowers,
Francesca Flowers, Mick O’ Dea, James Hanley
FILMMAKER Nichola Bruce
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Sam Sharples
PRODUCER Nichola Bruce
CREATIVE PRODUCER Michele D’Acosta
ASSOCIATE PRODUCERS Edel Noble, Martin Stairs, Don Barrett
CINEMATOGRAPHY Nichola Bruce, Sam Sharples, Jack Pyke-Bruce
EDITOR Sam Sharples
ARCHIVE EDITOR Jack Pyke Bruce
SOUND DESIGN Nichola Bruce, Sam Sharples
SOUND MIXER Seymour Milton
ADDITIONAL MUSIC Marcus Cummins
PRODUCTION MANAGER Judy Parkinson
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT Louise Coulthard
70 MINS COLOUR STEREO Filmed in England, Ireland & Spain.
An Inbetween Space Production © 2026 Inbetween Space Ltd.