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‘Interrogating the Value of Design for Change’
I appreciated being invited to be in the room for the research symposium on the future of Dundee today. There are some great people working hard. It is gratifying that artists are being recognised as valuable contributors to the future plans for living with climate change. I particularly enjoyed the strong visual messages in the…
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Kevin Henderson CAD speakers
A slow gentle and poetic hour listening to Kevin Henderson talk about several decades of making art work whilst teaching at DJCAD. His careful noticing of life around him and how he interacts through making artwork. Afterwards, it was touching to hear from my peers who had been taught and inspired by him in first…
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Antje Ehmann – Consider Labour
https://www.labour-in-a-single-shot.net/de/filme Antje Ehmann is a quietly spoken woman with a powerful presence. Her presentation of the project she has been directing which is now being exhibited in the Cooper Gallery was astounding. Anyone with proud working class ancestors would be romanced by this story, project, exhibition and the films. I say ancestors as I feel…
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Bogleing about
The Bogle W. D. Cocker There’s a bogle by the bour-tree at the lang loan heid, I canna thole the thocht o’ him, he fills ma he’rt wi’ dreid; He skirls like a hoolet, an’ he rattles a’ his banes, An’ gi’es himsel’ an unco fash to fricht wee weans. He’s never there by daylicht,…
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Hidden Histories Exhibition at the McManus Galleries
Hidden Histories McManus Galleries Dundee The Hidden Histories exhibition is currently on in Dundee’s McManus Galleries and runs throughout 2023. It shows a variety of works selected from the permanent collection with a promise to consider the 20th century from differing standpoints and to discuss the question – ‘whose lives do our collections represent?’. Exhibition…
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Freud Drawings
I found these lovely drawings by Freud in the library today. I sat with them for a brief time and then returned the book to the shelf. I will wait until another lifetime when I can spend a year drawing and thinking about the human nervous system and how its health affects our lives.
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An expansive new year
First entry of 2023 – The winter festivities have reset me. The wheel has turned and as my predecessors and so many other people in the northern hemisphere have experienced and are now feeling, my gaze is turning towards the new year and the return of growth. Lying in bed at first light this morning…
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Multispecies Architecture
Multispecies architecture After a morning of giving and listening to Grounding presentations for assessment I am exhausted. The concentration is tiring. We are all excited by the work that is emerging from the studios. There are two more presentations to go but I have to find a quiet corner to give my presentation to the…
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Tidying up and reflections
The fog of fatigue is clearing from yesterday. Sometimes fatigue is useful because it stops me from overthinking. Thought is pared back to the necessary level to undertake a specific activity. This works if I am drawing or sitting at a particular activity that is meditative or focussed. It doesn’t work in situations where I…
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A walk with Marcus Coates
A few days of getting to know Marcus Coates through YouTube and writing about his work. I would like to go for a walk with him. Maybe we could take a wee dram and walk up to see the osprey nest together? We might be treated to a kestrel visit en-route. Such a walk would…