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Recycl-Age Art Exhibition 9-11 July 2021 Taking Inspiration From Recycling
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Granton Hub Madelvic House, Granton Park Avenue, Edinburgh EH5 1HS
granton:hub is pleased to announce that our community is now included in the ‘Coastal Knowledge’ project funded by the RSE Young Academy Scotland and led by Dr Niki Vermeulen (University of Edinburgh) celebrating Scotland’s (prolonged) year of coast and waters.
As a coastal community, Granton plays a part in developing diverse forms of knowledge about the coast and experiences that people have living and working on the coast.
The Recycl-Age Art exhibition was selected as part of this Coastal Knowledge project and is included in the 2021 Edinburgh Science festival, offering artists a unique opportunity to showcase their work. Recycl-Age Art 2021 includes painters, printmakers, collage artists, ceramicists, illustrators, photographers, textile artists, jewellers, composers, poets and makers. Many artworks incorporate recycled elements, indeed several are made of 100% recycled and repurposed materials. Some artists reflect on what recycling means to them, figuratively or conceptually
With contributions from: Marta Adamowicz – Elise Ashby – Anna Baran – Emily Brooks Millar – Sandra Brown – Megan Chapman – Erin Colquhoun – Michael Dawson – Gina Fierlafijn Reddie – Penny Forbes – Komachi Goto – David Gray – Lorna Johnson – Jessica Kirkpatrick – Victor Nobis – Valerie O’Regan – Abigail Osborne – Ludovica Perosin – Ian Reddie – Judith Shaylor – Jacqueline Thow – Mark Urban – Rosemary Walker – Bev Wright
I am thrilled to have 3 pieces of 3D work accepted for this exhibition.
Please visit - art and recycling are important!
RECENT WINTER INSPIRATIONS
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It’s difficult to become motivated and inspired during this madness when culture has been closed down and the colour rinsed out of our days but try we must. I try to be mindful of the moment in my shrunken world. I have been moved by small things; a crow landing on the beach, frost glitter, the stark skeleton trees and the changing light as the sun sets on another winter day.
ART
With no exhibitions and galleries closed, my inspiration comes largely from books and less so the Internet. However, I am lucky to be still working in a gallery and to see such wonders as Vincent Van Gogh’s Olive Trees, Rembrandt’s Self-portrait (1655) and John Singer Sargent’s Lady Agnew of Lochnaw when the gallery is empty is a privilege.
Cy Twombly by Jonas Storsve is a beautiful book (a birthday gift in January) that I cannot stop looking at.
All my amazing Basquiat books but especially Jean-Michel Basquiat by Dieter Buchhart.
In 2018 the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, held exhibitions on two of the greatest artists of the 20th century - Egon Schiele, and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This was the last trip I made overseas before the madness.
Paul McCartney Paintings - Little, Brown and Company. I bought this book in Dublin in 2001 and recently picked it up to thumb through. I love Big Mountain Face, Dark Faces and Bowie Spewing.
Derek Jarman's Garden by Derek Jarman and Howard Sooley. I have to see Prospect Cottage one of these days.
Anton Corbijn interview Gagosian Quarterly An interesting interview especially for lovers of Bowie and Joy Division.
BOOKS
John & Yoko / Plastic Ono Band (Christmas Gift) is the definitive exploration of John Lennon’s first major solo album after the break-up of the Beatles, Yoko’s accompanying album and the three singles that preceded it (‘Give Peace A Chance’, ‘Cold Turkey’ and ‘Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)’).
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Corvus: A Life With Birds - Esther Woolfson
The Book of Ichigo Ichie: The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way – Francesc Miralles and Héctor García
Mojo Collectors The Beatles Red & Blue 1962-1970
Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings – Yoko Ono
MUSIC
David Bowie – Look At The Moon! (Live Phoenix Festival 97)
Idiot Prayer – Nick Cave
Archaeology – The Rutles
Double Fantasy Stripped Down – John Lennon / Yoko Ono
Life's Too Good - The Sugarcubes
Low – David Bowie
Lost In Translation Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack
Catalpa – Jolie Holland
Happy Songs For Happy People - Mogwai
Gimme Some Truth – John Lennon
Miles In Berlin – Miles Davis
Luxa – Harold Budd (now sadly, no longer with us)
Withered Crown/Ember Months/Flowerts Will Come – My latest homemade compilation painting CD.
FILM/TV
Lost In Translation (again!)
Museum Hours (again!)
A Hard Day’s Night
The White Crow
Life Is Beautiful (Roberto Benigni)
The Affair (Season 1 & 2)
Spiral (Series 1)
BBC iPlayer – Age Of The Image (James Fox), Keith Haring: Street Art Boy, Monitor: Pop Goes The Easel (Ken Russell), The Romantics and Us with Simon Schama, Civilisations (Mary Beard, David Olusoga & Simon Schama), Maggi Hambling: Making Love with the Paint, Emin/Munch: Between the Clock and the Bed, Fierce Women – Yoko (Yoko Ono).
LIKES
The fact that this can’t go on forever! Frosty walks. Wardie Bay. The thought of Ripon & North Yorkshire in June. My new Denon D-M41DAB Micro Hi-Fi system. Tanka poetry.
QUOTATIONS
When I run after what I think I want,
My days are a furnace of distress and anxiety;
If I sit in my own place of patience,
What I need flows to me,
And without any pain.
From this I understand that
What I want also wants me,
Is looking for me
And attracting me;
When it cannot attract me
Any more to go to it,
It has to come to me.
There is a great secret
In this for anyone
Who can grasp it. – Rumi
Christmas Cards
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Christmas is almost here and the year, thankfully is almost over! Not that I’m wishing my life away but like countless others I’ll be glad to see the back of 2020. We have high hopes for you 2021 - be radiant and golden, deliver beautiful things!
Ok, I decided to make some Christmas cards this year – nothing clever or over designed, just something simple and unique with heartfelt words to accompany them. I made 36 monoprints and then added oilstick and fluorescent crayon to each one in different combinations. They were then glued to blank cards. Simple!