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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.

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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Selasa, 16 Juni 2015

10.27

SNH ARTIST RESIDENCY | TREE CHURCH FILM

by Travelling around the world, in treechurch

image marco scerri

the artist studio process of collecting and making is a 3D extension of the sketchbook process and this is where the real intuitive connections are made. this brilliant short film by Catherine Weir gives an overview of the whole residency and the collecting that went on in the name of research. a snapshot in time of the most excellent year spent with members of staff at Battleby, particularly Jim Carruthers who became a huge part of my process.

as well as the adhocist recycled structure I was also working with texts and with new printmaking techniques – all the prints were made on site with spray paint and bootlace fungus on found materials in my spray shed. working very fast and completely intuitively I produced the aurora prints which are far looser than I normally work when I draw or screen print. initially I set myself one strict condition, that the work must be created within the natural boundaries of battleby with the creative tools at hand. It changed the work and my process and was a great experiment for me personally completely altering my approach and the control I normally have in my working process.

its hard to believe a year has gone by since this life affirming residency produced tree church but having just returned from a research trip to the forests of finland it makes me realise how strongly biophilia still has me in its grip and quite how much this residency changed me as an artist.

image marco scerri

Mike Inglis - Artist in residence at SNH Battleby Conference Centre from cthrn wr on Vimeo.

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Rabu, 25 Maret 2015

04.48

DARK MATTERS : HIGHER THAN ICARUS

by Travelling around the world, in wall installation

higher than icarus - gallery installation shot

foreign bodies triptych and the primitives

What I am exploring is completely inspired by the creative response of Ann Druyan (the wife of Carl Sagan) who made recordings of her brainwaves and heart rates in an attempt to define what it felt like to be in love for the cultural time capsule the golden records which Voyager 1 now carries as it leaves our galaxy travelling into deep space on a journey that began in 1977. Carl Sagan died in 1996 but the recordings of their love still flow out into the void on an eternal voyage through the cosmos. This beautiful sentiment is meant more as a symbol of our species’ altruistic potential than a conscious attempt to communicate with alien societies and re-enforces my own humanity.

HIGHER THAN ICARUS – a love song to earth -– 19 golden hexagons in a screen printed wall mounted installation (based on the base of a fluorescence air telescope and sized to be equal to the Hubble) exploring the visual language of science and art – combining vector and hand driven drawings, scientific diagrams and notation to produce a synthesis of images which explore the idea of the higher emotions.

higher than icarus - mid production on the screenprint beds

hexagonal heaven - studio shot

SUNSONG ONE AND SUNSONG TWO : a sound installation which combines the sound of the suns radiation with human heartbeats and a 3D print of the “singing” Rosetta comet (supplied by UKATC) ultimately help explore these concepts based around universal love. The sun emitting radiation at the highest frequency in our universe and the law of vibration, a law which states that nothing rests means that the sun offers an emotional high beyond any human understanding of the concept of love or the higher emotional states. It provides a physical love song to humanity.

sunsong#2 - 3D printed comet / gold / volcanic sand

THE FOREIGN BODIES EDITIONS – these editions at first appear to be asteroids or space debris but are in fact corals, rocks formed by living earth based organisms. They assist in decoding HIGHER THAN ICARUS and examine the same concepts in a triptych format

foreign bodies #1

foreign bodies #2

foreign bodies #3

foreign bodies triptych

THE PRIMITIVES –wooden painted geometric shapes and patterns that govern our understanding of the world whether artistically or scientifically and examine the relationships between the circle and the hexagon that underpin much of the image building. These shapes are derived from the Metatron cube a geometrical concept that helps examine the links between science with metaphysics.

the primitives

the primitives - studio shot

Edinburgh Printmakers : Dark Matters from arts-news on Vimeo.

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best vacation spots

Minggu, 19 Juni 2016

SUNDOME | CUPAR ARTS FESTIVAL

THE TRAVELLING GALLERY | THE ARK CAMPS MURALS

Selasa, 16 Juni 2015

SNH ARTIST RESIDENCY | TREE CHURCH FILM

Rabu, 25 Maret 2015

DARK MATTERS : HIGHER THAN ICARUS

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