I started this visual diary at the end of February, as part of the creative process for a new Solo performance piece. The aim of this visual diary was to reflect on that short but intense period and to share some aspects of the process as it has flourished.
I have 2 bird and wind drawing machines in prototype stage. Machine 1 is a plotter. It uses a series of pulleys and levers to plot X against Y depending on where a garden bird sits. Currently all birds are […]
Play by Stuart Brown, M.D., with Christopher Vaughan I love this book. It is so insightful into play. What I’m really pleased about is it covers adults and not just children. I think it’s really important for adults to continue […]
BA (Hons), Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art. Speaking about his work, Robert McCormack says: “A collection of dogs gather, two adults and one pup. Forgetting their pack, they articulate themselves through the nuclear family unit that […]
BA (Hons), Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art. “My practice explores spatial experiences and aesthetics within the context of the domestic and local. Working primarily between javaScript code sketches and the painting these are projected on to, […]
BA (Hons), Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking, Glasgow School of Art. Speaking about her work, Emma Boiston says: “A patchwork of thoughts, smells, textures; layers of a past that looms on my mind, stitched together as a way of treasuring […]
——– invitation to contribute to the walking through project when lockdown started i was already experiencing the feeling that the world was slowing down. i can remember an evening where i stood and listened to sheep munching on the […]
This week on the blog, I calm down and get reflective after a month or two of slightly frenzied painting output.
And actually get around to writing on my blog.
I know. It’s been a while.
Art etc. no. 27 The situation demands an alternative response, to life and art. We are all doing it differently. I am trying to look at it as an opportunity, a space that can be filled but doesn’t have to […]
BA (Hons) Painting, Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh. Louis Lisle says: “My practice has led me to produce a series of paintings, drawings and objects that mimic the raw materiality of construction sites and create scenarios which […]
Of course, as soon as I say “it’s hard to look forward at the moment”, something happens to make me leap forward! Working at home when you are used to working in a studio is tricky. I have struggled to […]
Now showing returns with a selection of exhibitions and projects presented via online viewing rooms, social media and other online platforms including a site offering bookable studio visits with acclaimed contemporary artists, the digital version of Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects space, and Instagram exhibitions that reference isolation and lockdown.
I’m going back on myself a bit today in order to try and keep a proper record of everything that’s happened (or not) over the lockdown period. Apart from writing ‘cancelled’ across a number of pages, I’ve effectively stopped using […]
This summer I’m experimenting with non human drawings. Paper is taped to a hanging tray and a pen placed above that in free movement. The tray is loaded with enticing bird treats. The wind and the birds make the drawings.
It’s hard to look forward at the moment. The things we used to do, if we are still able to do them at Christmas, will be done in a very different way. Impossible to predict which things we will return […]
On my run this morning I found myself thinking about the large street-facing window of the gallery where I will be showing later this year. The gallery is at a traffic-light controlled crossing, the pavement is particularly narrow in front […]
Image: Sending Covid Post Cards
