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.
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