Blue Macaskill

Recently in 2013/14 Blue has been editing a NEW film channel on You Tube and experimenting with innovative film techniques visit these films at YOU TUBE search Explore Mid Wales!

The haunting and sometimes darkly comic images of artist Blue MacAskill are built from layers of archival and historical material, interrogating the relationship between memory, dream and the present moment.

CRUNCH art fair 2011 - Hay on Wye

18th-20th Nov 2011

 

Biography

Powys-based artist Blue MacAskill graduated from the University of Oxford Ruskin School of Fine Art in 1999 then went on to do a Masters in Fine Art at Wimbledon School of Art (2004). In 2006 she was awarded the Eisteddfod Artist in Residence Exhibition, and in 2008, the artist in residence post at The National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. In 2009 MacAskill received a Fellowship Cultural Award, funded by EUarts, for a three-month residency in Seville.

Selected exhibitions and screenings include Studio Hache, Seville (2009), Other Rooms, Other Voices, The National Library of Wales (2008-9); Blaengar Projects, Sculpture, film, performance, The Tannery, Machynlleth (2008); Goddesses of Industry, Duwiesau Diwydiant, National Waterfront Museum, Swansea (2007); After Urban, ArtExpo 2007:  University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA (2007); FRAME, ArtExpo 2006: International Dance-Video Festival at Rivoli Teatro Municipal / ESAP / Escola das Artes - Catholic University in Porto, Portugal (2006); 5th International Hull Short Film Festival (2006); Temporary Cities - Video Art & Architecture event at the Cultural Communication Centre of Klaipeda, Lithuania (2006); Goddesses of Industry, Cywaith Cymru, Artist in Residence at The National Eisteddfod of Wales, Felindre (2006).

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