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Minggu, 19 Juni 2016

07.02

THE TRAVELLING GALLERY | THE ARK CAMPS MURALS

by Travelling around the world, in travelling gallery

The artworks imagine and illustrate new Scottish rural (feral) communities who are engaged in the construction of giant Ark structures from the debris of old boats and wooden structures which no one imagined would ever be used again. These Ark structures are not intended to be religious although the Ark story is referenced in almost every culture on the planet. These structures are to be seen as cypher for positive rebuilding and it might be imagined that the bus itself in some ways is an cultural ark which travels the byways of Scotland.

The artwork for this project seeks to examine contemporary Scottish culture and its fractured relationship with the past through an exploration of identity which pulls together diverse strands and influences such as outsider artist Angus McPhee in the grass woven costumes worn by the workers in the encampments as well as fragments of highland fishing boats and architectural oddities.

This work provides a bridge between our ancient past and an unknown but optimistic future for Scotland. These tiny fragments are all we have left of our ancient Scottish nation, of a past we can barely imagine when we were culturally whole and are seen in the context of a narrative of rebuilding. The artworks show eccentric ad-hocist constructions being built, great Ark structures. Arks constructed from the debris of old boat hulls and deconstructed allotment sheds which are drawn from images collected all over Scotland; from the outer Hebrides and Orkney to the central belt. The background textures and colours are an abstracted study of the orange Lykens found by the coast in the Hebrides and explore both geology and mapping. It is a delightful notion that these fragments from which the artworks are created will circle the country and at some points shall pass the sites where they actually lie awaiting recycling.

rebecca's excellent fringe | photo credit travelling gallery

alex frost meet mike inglis | photo credit alison chisholm

art camp | photo credit alison chisholm

mike inglis and morvern cunningham | photo credit leith late

art camp travelling | photo credit alison chisholm

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Kamis, 06 Maret 2014

03.31

songs from the beginning of the world

by Travelling around the world, in screenprints

The first part of my research based arts project "Chasing the Ghost of Angus Mcphee" a bespoke hand made and very limited edition grey cloth box containing a set of six new screenprints. The prints examine contemporary Scottish culture and its fractured relationship with the past through an exploration of identity which pulls together many diverse strands and influences such as outsider artist Angus McPhee in the grass woven costumes worn by the children as well as tribal fetishes and outsider art versions of everyday cultural icons that the children of the grass choose to worship.

This work provides a bridge between an ancient past and an unknown future for a hebridean culture and the broader Scottish culture. These tiny fragments are all we have left of our ancient Scottish nation and who we once were when we were culturally whole. Are the children ghosts from the past haunting our present or are they confused cultural warriors fighting to create a new future?

The ruins of old caravans, desolate vessels representing family and a transient relationship with memory and home lurk in the backgrounds of some of the images. In other more hopeful images we see new Ark structures built, Arks constructed from the debris of old boat hulls and deconstructed allotment sheds.

The texts reference political systems, ideologies, collective memories and calls for unity and are intentionally ambiguous, some ominous, some celebratory, some even threatening.

The background textures are an abstracted study of the orange lichens found by the coast in the Hebrides and explore both geology and mapping.

BOX SIZE : 51CM x 36 CM x 3CM

BOX EDITION – 8

BOX GREY CLOTH BOUND BOX WITH INSET SCREENPRINT ON COVER

PRINT SIZES : 6 IMAGES : EACH 50 CM x 35CM

5 colour screenprints on fabriano white paper

Produced in September 2013

The editions were produced at Highland Print Studio and the hand made boxed produced in collaboration with Sollas Books in North Uist with funding support from Creative Scotland and University of Edinburgh.

The second part of the new body will be a series of large-scale mixed media pieces created from salvage collected on my travels in the Hebrides and be ready in the New Year after I complete my current creative Scotland residency for Year of Natural Scotland with SNH to be followed by a large scale sculptural Public art installation.

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Kamis, 08 Maret 2012

11.15

super8 sunshine

by Travelling around the world, in screenprint

studio experiments with transfer printing and a mixed media approach combining spray paint and copper foils, these are studies for bigger pieces i'm creating. super8 sunshine refers to the caravans and the memories locked into them and it comes from short prose pieces i'm playing around with - hear follow said piece -

It was 1977 and punk was exploding but we didn’t care - we were in flares and huge pointy collars, you and mini me. We tubed in every day from the campsite, I was always really excited. My first ever McD’s and the cinema in Leicester Square: James Bond and Alistair McLean! Getting Lesley Crowthers autograph and seeing the Mousetrap on Drury Lane.

But you know what I remember most?

It’s you running.

I know that’s weird but I don’t think I ever saw you running before.

We were crossing the campsite and you said ‘lets go’ and were off before I could register what was happening. You seemed airborne and I had to run my absolute hardest, chest bursting, just to keep up. Everytime we came to a ditch you just vaulted it, never breaking stride. I was so scared but I just about kept pace, running flat out by your side.

My god we both flew so high that day. Higher than Icarus but we both made it down! You and me in the bright super8 sunshine. I’ll never forget that moment. It meant nothing really but I’ll never forget it.

I never ran that fast again.

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10.53

children of the grass - 3 new screenprint editions

by Travelling around the world, in winter in my eyes

a set of 3 new editions completes the cycle of creativity in inverness attached to the public art project and large scale wall installation I created there last year - Inverness Old Town Art commissioned me to create the new editions and I produced a limited run of 13 of each - they were printed at the excellent Highland Print Studio overlooking the river in Inverness - the editions each reduce to their essence the three parts of the wall installation - children of the grass, winter in my eyes, the wolf beside me. the three titles are taken from a gaelic verse created by Fiona J Mackenzie in response to the work. contact Inverness Old Town Art if you wish to purchase a set of prints.

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best vacation spots

Minggu, 19 Juni 2016

THE TRAVELLING GALLERY | THE ARK CAMPS MURALS

Kamis, 06 Maret 2014

songs from the beginning of the world

Kamis, 08 Maret 2012

super8 sunshine

children of the grass - 3 new screenprint editions

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