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						JOHN MAYBURY B  I O
			John Maybury was born in 1958. He studied at North East London Polytechnic, where as part of his course, he shot his first films on Super 8 in an around London's punk scene. He was introduced to Derek Jarman, who was looking for new talent, and designed sets for  Jarman's Jubilee, and worked with him on The Last of England, War Requiem and The Tempest . By the early 1980s, Maybury was; leading light of the British underground film movement. Along with his equally precocious contemporary student Cerith Wyn Evans, Maybury pioneered with a style that was unashamedly exotic, with influences from Kenneth Anger to Jean Cocteau. The movement's first major show, entitled A Certain Sensibility, was at the Institute for Contemporary Art in London in 1981. 1983 saw a one man show at the ICA entitled Cultural Impotence of Stupid Boys. Initially associated with Super8 filmmaking, his mastery of video technology was quickly evident in a series of music videos (Neneh Cherry, Boy George) and long-works for television such as Remembrance of Things Fast 1993. Following the success of his fictionalised life of Francis Bacon Love is The Devil 1998, he is now working on feature films.
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