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My harp and I

admin — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 21:54:40 +0000

A big thankyou to Ashwath for his photography…

It’s been ages….

admin — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 12:41:53 +0000

I realised I havn’t posted anything up on here for over a year. It’s not because I have been hiding in a cave. It’s more because I took some time to adventure and reflect. I spent a few months in India and in the Caribbean, both of which were very inspirational in many ways.

My creatures have been in hibernation. But I have been harping more. I’ve never been sure how to merge the visual side of my practise with the musical. Maybe it’s time to give it a bash.

Something. Somewhere.

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 11:59:19 +0000

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

admin — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:45:39 +0000

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).

www.lochnessbarge.wordpress.com

This is not a restaurant.

admin — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 10:50:22 +0000

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

admin — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:59:38 +0000

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.

admin — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 17:01:38 +0000

‘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

admin — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:42:29 +0000

….is on in the Tayside Recycling Centre emporium in Dundee this week as Part of ‘Dundee Live’ festival.

time to get off the carousel?

admin — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 11:03:55 +0000

Pictures from a London Basement

admin — Mon, 16 May 2011 22:09:22 +0000

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.