A big thankyou to Ashwath for his photography…

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

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...

‘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.