Dawn Shadforth, one of the greatest British music video directors, will be discussing her work and showing some of her iconic videos at the next meeting of Music Video Preservation Society at The Mildmay Club on Friday, April 17th.

The director of many great videos for a wide range of artists, Dawn's work includes classics for Kylie Minogue, Moloko, Goldfrapp and more. She emerged in the late Nineties with videos for Sheffield DJ crew All Seeing I, introducing a new vision and style. Then she consistently set new creative standards in the medium over the next two decades, as her work evolved while making groundbreaking videos with cutting edge practitioners of pop, rock and dance music. 

More recently, Dawn has been focussed on directing longform drama, on TV shows including Trust and Adult Material, to considerable acclaim. Trespasses, the Channel 4 drama which she directed last year, has just picked up several nominations at the BAFTA TV awards - including Best Direction.

Dawn will be talking with MVPS host David Knight about her music videos and introducing some of the classics, explaining how that period of her career informs her work now, at Music Video Preservation Society at The Mildmay Club on Friday, April 17th. It will be a big part of another wide-ranging excursion around the art and cultural impact of the music videos, since the 1970s to the present day.

• Tickets on sale to MVPS on Friday April 17th here.