Temporary Public Sculpture

Made a wee polyhedron sculpture, and yesterday took it from the studio (that's the one with the white door)...

...to one of Aberdeen's nice tree-filled parks nearby:

'Grey Polyhedron' 1.3x1.6x1.5m, wood, cardboard, paint

Checked on it today. Man, that must have been some heavy rain!

Space Octopus

Was just reminiscing about the awesome time I had last year working on the mural at limousine bull with Brian Ross and Colin Robison. Anyone up for an autumn collaboration?

This is a painting Bri and I worked on while the show was running - it and the large mural are in storage if anyone has an idea where we could ressurect it?

Itchee Wasp @ NEOS

In September I took part in a group exhibition curated by Itchee Wasp for the annual North East Open Studios art event in Aberdeenshire. We were showing in a vacant shop unit in the Academy shopping centre.

Mark and Chris of Itchee Wasp installing.

Opening night peoples.

My lovely wife Allison.

'Model for Big Sculpture' wood, paint, plinth

'Object of Power' bronze, leather

DO IT! Forest party

Built some quick cardboard trees to set the scene for the DO IT! forest party night at Cellar 35

Fraser and Katie at the helm...

Allison and Alida

Jax

Justin and Mo

Random review of 09, so far...

Been going through photos from the past year, here's a random selection of what's been happening:

This is actually from about 1 year ago... an extremely small, fluffy and cute Henrietta, cat of my friend Mo.

Brian Ross had a solo show at Hamnavoe back in Jan...

Donny, Mo, Chris and Allison were there

In spring we went to Germany for a few days, stopping in Liepzig and Berlin...

Obligatory Berlin Wall photo

Kauf dich Glucklich cafe... best pint of Weihenstephan I ever did have


...and the cool wee birds

1 litre flagons - woozy!

Breakfast in the Cafe Wintergarten at the Literaturhaus. Berlin has some creative buskers - a guy came into the gardens and bellowed some shakespeare from memory for a good 20 mins.

Holocaust memorial

Brandenburg gate

A decaying Swoon wheatpaste in Prenzlauer Berg...


...and Katherine Grosse at the Temporäre Kunsthalle


Lots of nice parks in Berlin...

The fantastic Dolores restaurant, the closest you'll get to a proper SF Mission burrito in Europe I reckon...

Had dinner one night in an amazing little restaurant called Zur Rose...


In July I got married to my amazing lady Allison. We had a 'pre-wedding' beach party at Balmedie near Aberdeen:

Then we ran off to get hitched in San Francisco:

Followed by a week in paradise at Tulum, Mexico, where we stayed in a cabana on the beach. Good times...









Back in Aberdeen, we've had some nights of this:

Followed by some mornings of this:

...the biggest cake portions in town at the Breadmakers

And last weekend my beautiful wife and I went berry picking...

mmm, blackberries!