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Gillian McFarland studio
Gillian was participating in the N Fife Open Studio so it was a great opportunity to go and see her work in person and catch up. I had loved her presentation at the Arts and Science conference at DJCAD. Her glass works are beautiful and reference cosmology and astronomy. I had been considering investigating glass…
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Endings and Beginnings
Saturday 28th April 2023 Today was spent invigilating at our group show at Generator artists run gallery in Dundee. Apart from the bitter cold I really enjoyed the day. I met some great folk and had some lovely conversations. In particular with PhD student Susie about OOO and her practice based research. The…
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Quipu Dance and costume
I am delighted to think that we may have seen some of the development of this dance piece when we were sitting in awe under the wonderful Quipo in the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern. Such a special day, such a special moment. As with all dance costumes, as lovely as they are as…
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Recovery day
Feeling a bit broken today. So I decided to stay close to home and fill my lungs with fresh air and my heart with greenery and rushing water. Sometimes I really wonder what it is that motivates me to try and make drawings of anything when I can see such magnificent sights as rain drops…
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France-Lise McGurn CAP speaker
I loved the way Fance-Lise’s work broke the boundaries of the paper and inhabited the walls of the gallery. The drawings even grew into light through neon light sculptures. Her mark making is light and transparent. Although her subject matter is of a very different nature to mine I am inspired by the breaking of…
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British Museum
What an amazing day. I have been craving a day of drawing here for so long. When did my foundation course at Newnham Community College in 1988 I spent hours & hours drawing here. Then it was painful exercise. I was very insecure about my ability to draw. I also had an inherited idea about…
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Tania Tutorial Notes 27th Feb 2023
Watercolour owl has movement and has more of the felt sense of an animal moving Etchings of bees are from the collector’s scientific gaze and have lost the phenomenological feel that earlier drawings had Look at photographer Anne Noble’s (Wellington NZ) work – she photographs dead things but the interrogation in her work…
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Alan Dimmick CAP Speaker
Lovely to see images of the people across cultural communities in Scotland over the last 5 decades. As with the Richard Demarco archive it is a valuable record of some of the great moments in recent Scottish cultural history. For me, both collections raise the spectre of administration. When I was little I enjoyed…
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Rich Felgate – Finite CAP speaker
https://youtu.be/TqTRKophvhI https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/feb/15/finite-the-climate-of-change-review-powerful-case-against-climate-crisis-fatigue Thank goodness for Rich Felgate and his friends – such a powerful film.
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Watery Layers and reflections
Most of the triggers for my drawings come from noticing a particular something happening on the land. Most often, it’s a dramatic encounter with a living entity, be it a bee, an owl or a badger but sometimes it’s a view of the landscape that alerts me to a new relationship to a familiar scene.…