on the way to mounthooly...
Monday, 31 May 2010
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Monday, 24 May 2010
Wheatpastes...
Ale came to visit the studios the other day, and I found some new wheatpastes in the alley...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
Jenny Hood @ Athenaeum
Thursday, 6 May 2010
Sunday, 2 May 2010
Aberdeen Artist's Society exhibition 2010
I had a sculpture selected for the annual Shell sponsored Aberdeen Artist's Society open exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery, and went along to the opening on Fri 30 Apr.
Angela Lennon from PVA and Allison, probably talking about how awful the wine is, with my floor-based sculpture in the background.
Some pretty good stuff this year, the show seemed a bit fresher than past offerings... This is a huge etched aluminium piece by George Collier.
Mark McCracken works the camera...
Some girls, and behind them the bearded fellow is the brilliant Aberdeen painter/printmaker Jim Furneaux - go to Peacock and buy something he made...
My sculpture 'KSW' (wood, paint, fake fur)
KSW are the initials of Ken Saro-Wiwa, one of nine Nigerian environmental activists who were executed by the Nigerian government in 1995. They were protesting about the massive destruction caused by the multinational oil companies exploitation of the Niger Delta, their Ogoni tribal homeland.
It is alleged that Shell lobbied the government to take action against the people disrupting their operations, which led to the unlawful killing of the Ogoni nine and widespread beatings, imprisonment and torture of other inhabitants of the places Shell operates. In 2009 Shell made an out of court settlement of $15.5m to the families of the Ogoni nine, preventing a case which was soon to begin in a New York court that would have seen Shell answering charges of Crimes Against Humanity, amongst other offences. Read more about the case here.
Kaleyedoscope performance
On Sat 17th April I finally took the mobile-interactive-sculpture Kaleyedoscope out into the streets of Aberdeen, Scotland.
It turned out to be quite a draw...
...even the local young 'hoodies' seemed interested.
Some keen youngsters wanted to see how it all went down in the innards...
The view through the pupil:
Inside the eye was a kaleidoscope linked to a video screen. This played a looped video made by local legend Jon Reid of a previous stage of the project: a collaborative public paint jam at Project Slogan gallery, Aberdeen.
There was a crank-handle which was used to rotate the kaleidoscope inside, which meant at least 2 people had to work together to bring it alive. This fellow demonstrated some particularly vigorous cranking:
Moving on from the first spot at Union St/Bridge St...
to Belmont Street...
then travelling again...
to the lovely, and hopefully long-lived Union Terrace Gardens!
Weirdly, the girl I'm talking to on the right here (i think it was Lisa?) was showing me a poem she had written only days earlier which featured the line "kaleidoscope eyes"...
The eyeball crew, clockwise from top: Me, Neil Henderson, Jon Reid and Stu Awesome.
Most of these photographs were taken by man about town Neil Henderson:
Cheers Neil!
Jon spent the day filming it all and continuing to grow his awesome 'stash:
and the always awesome Stu Awesome was on beer management and security detail:
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