After a jubilant opening weekend, an influx of visiting European curators and a string of parties, Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art 2012 (GI) settles into its stride. Here, Richard Taylor highlights a few of the events and exhibitions slightly off the beaten track but not to be missed.
I’ve been experimenting using acrylic hair on some of the clay figures that I’ve been making and I like the grotesque effect. I think espercially since the hair isn’t sleek or groomed particularly well, it turns out that the more […]
Jason Simpson Jason’s work is process driven through use of materials and a response to their environment in painting, sculpture and installation. His current body of work explores process, through intervention and the effects of environment and time on materials. […]
It was a great pleasure to eventually meet the two exchange artists from our partner organisation in Hungary: Ruziska Tunde and Eniko Kontor. They had responded quickly to our invitation and we were to find their enthusiasm and focus typical […]
Amanda Rae Many of Amanda’s works are assemblages and she explores often using many materials. ‘Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form’. (Ovid, Metamorphoses) Amanda’s starting point may be a […]
I think there are two main reasons for writing a blog… the first and most obvious is to let people know what we are doing…. but for me , I feel that it is not only cathartic, but it is […]
Repre1, The Gallery St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, WC2N 4JJ From the 1st- 13th May 2012. Open Daily 10am – 5pm.Private View, Tuesday 1st May 6-8pm. http://www.repreart.co.uk/ This exhibition promises to be a vibrant display of contemporary portrait and landscape painting. The […]
Its been a good few days. Built the rear-projection screen assembly for “Fear”. This was a mixture of optimising the screen size for the present piece and for the screen to be useful for other work. Ended up with a […]
‘My work evokes our experience of boundaries, borders, intersections and connection points, where times change, come together and sections separate. These are vital in order to evaluate beginnings and endings, the microcosm and macrocosm of nature and experience. On a […]
Just a quick update of our progress with the degree show. The title is still unfinished but by next week I hope to be able to let you all know (it’s exciting isn’t it…) In other areas, we now have […]
Recently I’ve taken a break from developing the photographs of the dolls that I’ve made, but have revisited them in the last day or so to see if I can push them further. If i’m happy enough with the results, […]
With these images I’ve tried using a variety of different filter effects on Photoshop. I like the effects that are acheiveable and how they can completely change the feel of an image.
Trieste Trieste lies on the north-eastern edge of the Adriatic Sea it face northwest across fro the Iberian peninsula which on a good day allows a view of the snow capped distant Dolomites mountain range. The Trieste we see today […]
In 2007 and 2008 I photographed virtually everything I did and posted the digital images in weekly albums on facebook. A total of 1,537 images were posted over the project’s duration. The impetus for the original ’35 weeks on facebook’ […]
