The sun is shining and I hope it holds for tomorrow before all the leaves fall of the trees that back my top floor tenement. I haven’t sat here for a while, just as I have not really blogged properly for a while. I thought this point, on the kitchen table next to the herbs that match the leaves on the other side of the window, was a good point to list some of the projects I have been working on and other current projects. Perhaps these explain the absence of direct commentary on my work in the past months.
A bulletin of sorts
First up is a two-person show called IPSO FACTO with fellow artist Ross Hamilton Frew at SUPERCLUB in Edinburgh, this opens on the 28th of October. Ross and myself have been working on the project loosely headed as “this is meditative” since around January 2011. IPSO FACTO is the culmination of new works in a space using drawing as a model for collaborative exchange: each work in some way will support the work of the other in a matter of fact (or indirect) manner. We have been keeping a separate Project blog for this on Artists talking called Drawing as a forum for collaborative exchange…
Running up to the IPSO FACTO show Ross and myself also have an image that it exemplary of our curatorial approach printed in Drawing Paper 4, a drawing/exhibition/newspaper produced in Liverpool and distributed nationally – http://www.issuu.com/mikecarney/docs/drawingpaper4…
‘Abandoned house’ is also a result of ‘this is meditative’, the collection of work by Ross and myself in one room in a derelict house near Lumsden in Aberdeenshire (I posted two separate works up to Ross there) comments on the dialogue we explore in the blog and also sets curatorial makers for IPSO FACTO – http://www.rich-taylor.co.uk/archive/abandoned-hou…
On a more Individual level I am to get two pieces of my creative writing published in two art journals. The text ‘One moving but still the other still but moving’, is to be published in Gnommero: Exactitude, the third publication in a series produced by Sarah Tripp and Eona McCallum that respond to Italo Calvino’s ‘Six Memos for a New Millennium’. This publication will be launched at an event at the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow that maps the art journal activity in Glasgow today (other journals will include 2HNB and Victor & Hester).
Another text ‘-Repeated act, Concentricity-‘ is to be published in Critical Writing Collective’s upcoming journal COPY // Unfold – http://www.rich-taylor.co.uk/textworks/repeatact
A recently concluded project with writer (and now PHD student at University of Aberdeen) Sophie Frost records the wandering conversations and stories that are ‘The Sea (the artist) the writer (The Sea’. This text and artwork were printed with the support of The Mutual Glasgow and Vault Art Glasgow – http://www.rich-taylor.co.uk/textworks/seaartistwr…
A fast approaching collaborative work will surface come mid-November 2011. Artist Kimbal Bumstead and myself have been working collaboratively for the past four years now and our recent project ‘two men one room’ reaches Edinburgh with a week long residency that maps alternative space within the city and then culminates with a series of events and exhibition at The Old Ambulance Depot off Leith Walk in the north of the City (November 26th – 28th).
Another working project is with fellow artist and friend Jennifer Picken. Proposed title: “embargoed” Read Jennifer’s blog
