Dundee Contemporary Arts

In the Summer and into Autumn I was up in Dundee doing a residency, Engage Everyone, looking at gallery and museum engagement. This was with particular reference to how people with disabilities engage. I undertook a more psychological exploration of the building and it's various aspects. Here are some of the images I worked up. Initially i thought i would be mainly printing but as i discovered the laser and its potential i spent an awful lot of time on that. However, the work which will be shown in April/May is a mixture of print, laser and interventions.

Salisbury

I made these in response to the exhibition The View From Here at Salisbury Arts Centre. Deliberately Low-Fi. We all wear various hats at various times in our lives - even several on the same day. This was a new way of working for me - coming up with the concept and sending it to be executed in situ.

The Art House Exhibition

So Wednesday the 28th was the opening of my exhibition. It is tentatively called Everytime I'm in a queue I always imagine what I'm going to say about a hundred times'. This exhibition is part retrospective part new work - site specific or made especialy for the show, The title is taken from a new work regarding my new fictional newspaper which I am working on for my Engage Everyone residency at Dundee Contemporary Arts. This time it is more of an intervention.


As part of the opening - and I must admit it was unlike any I had been too - not the traditional private view. The Art Walk was so people were moving from venue to venue. People also tended to cut through the foyer - which is where many of the works are - and go straight to the studios. At 7 i did the now de rigeur artist talk. This was fine - there were even a few faces in the audience i didn't recognise. One of the questions asked was if i am moving to be producer cleaner- crisper work - referencing my recent foray into vinyl. I am enjoying playing with text and vinyl, but i remain of the view that i will produce work which fits the location, space or word the best. I still like being able to see the marks of the process which contributed to the execution of the work. My two new vinyl pieces are in the lift and main corridor of the art house.





Continuing my theme of communication, dialogue and the view that the more connected we are the more disconnected we become - the whole digital/social media diaspora then I am showing 'Solitary' in a paired down version without any additional text on the nature of lonliness.




There is always that element of how the work is going to breathe on its' own. I think there is a good mix or old and new, things in the gallery space and thos site specific and installational elements. I guess that's my work done on it, I've done all I can. Now I am waiting to hear the feedback, see what people think.