best vacation spots: drawing

Minggu, 19 Juni 2016

09.41

SUNDOME | CUPAR ARTS FESTIVAL

by Travelling around the world, in sacred geometry

Utilising structural theory born out of the eco movement of the 1960’s and Lloyd Kahn’s geodesic dome designs Mike Inglis project creates an architectural mix media assemblage. The installation combines traditional materials with new print making technologies, laser engraving acrylic panels and spray painting complete this three dimensional “print”.

This site specific environmental intervention is situated in the green space of Cupar’s riverside park within a ring of sentinel trees. The construction explores ideas based around visual perception, codes of abstraction and versions of reality seeking links with diverse theories surrounding epileptic visual auras, bioenergetics and sacred geometries.

Cupar Arts festival has been growing and growing as has its reputation as a serious organization which has such a positive approach to taking art out of traditional gallery spaces and into the heart of the community. It’s a real pleasure to be invited to show at the festival but even more importantly at a time of crisis in arts funding to actually be supported in making new work and developing my practice. It should also be mentioned that the dome would never have been fabricated on budget or with the level of precision it displays without the gracious assistance of my friend and fellow creative douglas kelso who gave amazing help and support

drawing the spiral | image credit hazel terry

sundome

sundome interior with best visitor

mad zoe brings camera obscura into sundome | image credit belinda tippen

zoe through the looking glass

haugh riverside park cupar | image credit belinda tippen

among the trees | image credit belinda tippen

visiting young team

peace within

bringing the sunshine

rascals in party frocks

exterior detail sundome

interior detail reflections

interior detail in the rain

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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.