Don’t touch!

Each year my sister buys me a Redstone Diary for Christmas. They’ve always got quirky themes & pictures.
Here’s the image for 28th June – 3rd May titled Don’t Touch! Pictures from Electricity is Dangerous, Germany, 1933.

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions

Current & Upcoming Exhibitions.

Filming

In the photo studio at Arts Complex filming.

Art’s Complex Open Studios

Some (rather scrappy) photos of my studio at the Art’s Complex open studios event on Sunday. It was a great day with over 700 visitors that came to the event.

The images below are of works in progress. I’m currently looking at staged spaces, in particular the displays & expected layout of gallery installations & theatre design. The models will be used for a moving image piece that I’m currently developing.

Please note that my studio space is never this tidy!

Art’s Complex Open Studios

My studio buddies & I are opening our studio to the public for the first time this Sunday.  If you’re in or around Edinburgh, come along and see what we’re up to.  Lots of other artists will have their doors open too, so there will be lots to nosey at!  More info below.

Please click on the links & check out the work of my lovely artist friends.

On Sunday 22nd April the Art’s Complex Studio 6.15 will open its doors to the public for the first time.  Shared by 5 vibrant and varying Artist/Makers…

Emma Macleod is a Visual Artist, her interests lie in film, theatre & the dramatisation of space.  Open Studios is an opportunity to see her new drawings, photography, moving image & sound works currently in development. www.emmamacleod.co.uk

Sarah Connolly is a Visual Artist/Printmaker who explores a broad spectrum of subject matter, including; landscapes, architecture, interiors, objects, concepts and processes, where her output is often housed in print, photography, collage, watercolour and drawing. www.sarahconnolly.co.uk

Kirsten McAlister is a Painter, currently focusing on work which she’s making from revisited research, gathered in Naples, from her RSA John Kinross Scholarship to Italy in 2007.

Nicola Turnbull is a Jeweller, Designer and Silversmith. She creates delicate, dynamic and articulating jewellery in sterling silver.  Her intricate designs are informed by geometric diagrams found in organic sciences, such as the linear drawings made by a pendulum. www.nicolaturnbull.co.uk

Fiona Hermse is an Artist Jeweller particularly fascinated by spiritual belief, superstition and myth in nature. This is an opportunity to view new work inspired by urban imagery and derived from composition and delicate aesthetic contrasts. www.fionahermse.co.uk

“The exterior of St Margaret’s House conserves the drab office block charm of its, no doubt, remarkably unimaginative youth. Venture inside, however, and discover the creative hoards of painters, jewellers, ceramists, web designers, printmakers, sculptors, illustrators, textiles designers, costume makers, writers, photographers, filmmakers, butchers, bakers, and musical instrument makers that now line the corridors of this monument to building reuse.”

- www.artscomplex.org

For Directions and more information, click on the link above to visit the Art’s Complex website.

Hope to see you there!

Screening

Artists I Like: William Kentridge

 

Whilst flicking through old photos on my mobile phone, I came across these images taken from a book I’d borrowed from the library about William Kentridge.  Kentridge makes stop-motion animations by creating charcoal drawings that he steadily erases and re-draws, photographing each change.  The video above, gives an interesting insight into his  consideration of pain & suffering as a subject matter for his work.