Something. Somewhere.
Longlegs and Sheep embark upon an adventure
Made during Residencies for Scotland programme 2011, thanks to Scottish Sculpture Studios, Royal Scottish Academy and Creative Scotland
Don’t Fox with the Dog
My animations are often about how I and others come to terms with and relate to new environments, and once the stage is set I can allow the character to explore it’s sense of place. On my recent residency aboard the Loch Ness Barge I decided to base the character on Star, the resident boat fox-dog, and using the boat itself as the stage-set, lit only by natural light and a head torch (amongst the only lighting available onboard after ‘lights-out’ when the generator was turned off), I started to play. The project began when I shut myself in the dieselly dark depths of the engine room. Whilst we drew, thought, played music, laughed, ate courgettes and conversed on the floor above, it kept doing it’s thing (details of which remain a mystery), reminding us of its existence only by the drone of the generator (in the key of A flat). The simultaneous exploration of the new, memory of the old, the obvious and the hidden, the attempts to understand the technical goings on, and the general sense of adventure aboard gave rise to this animation, named after a comment made one sunny Tuesday which made me laugh for hours. Fabiano made the soundtrack using an array of musical instruments, some cups, tables, sighs, and anything else that was lying around at the time (I think).
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This is not a restaurant.
Having been in residence on an incredible barge on the Caledonian Canal with Scottish and Brazilian artists, surgeon and boat-fox-dog, we are celebrating the end of the 5 week residency on Sat 17th, 5-8pm – Clachnaharry, Inverness… with animation, installation, performance, music, tea, cake, some obscure tables and a boat which is no longer a restaurant….
Organ Recital
There’s nothing like having a good bash about on some organs in the name of art…..
(Alison Whyte, Mary Somerville and Paul “Lefty” Wright perform an organ recital at the Tayside Recycling Centre as part of the Guerilla Gallery for the Dundee Live launch event. Film by Alison Whyte.)
‘Something. Somewhere.’ Stills.
‘Something. Somewhere’ is my latest animated film – the outcome of a residency at Glasgow Sculpture Studios where I happily welded and animated 2 months away, thanks to the Royal Scottish Academy, Creative Scotland and Glasgow Sculpture Studios.
These are some stills from the film.
Object Lives
….is on in the Tayside Recycling Centre emporium in Dundee this week as Part of ‘Dundee Live’ festival.
Pictures from a London Basement
The dark cellar-like basement beneath Shoreditch town hall was the home of the fourth extract of the continuous journey animations and storyboard sketches in London recently, where I was surrounded by lots of excellent work from fellow ‘When the Moon Hits Your Eye’ folks.
When the Moon Hits Your Eye…
…show opens next week in London, beneath Shoreditch Town Hall: preview on Thursday 28th, 7-9pm and runs until Sunday 1st May.
“The show will host a cross section of contemporary art work from nine up and coming UK-based artists which was developed following a three month Royal Scottish Academy Scholarship in Florence, Italy.”
‘Retrace’
After five years spent scattered between Scotland’s art colleges, five of our Bridge House Art Portfolio group returned to Ullapool to put on a show, collaborating to put on a trail of projections and installations around the village, as well as an exhibition of our work in An Talla Solais Arts Centre. ‘Retrace’ will run until May 8th, should you happen to be passing by the far north-west.
Here is a review from Northings
