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PETROSPHERE:
Cities rise and cities fall again; words are spoken and retracted; we meet and talk and things will not be the same again.
PETROSPHERE is part of a series of projects between 5 artists based in Glasgow, and 5 artists based in Athens.
Vibrant, difficult, beautiful, caustic; full of friction and full…
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A new sculpture exhibition ‘You, Me, Something Else’, opened at GOMA last week. The show includes work by Claire Barclay, Karla Black, Nick Evans, Alex Frost, Lorna Macintrye, Andrew Miller, Mary Redmond, Joanne Tatham and Tom O’Sullivan… and myself.
In a new work for this show entitled…
PETROSPHERE is an exchange between 5 artists based in Glasgow: Ruth Barker, Helen de Main, Niall Macdonald, James McLardy and Ciara Phillips; and 5 artists based in Athens: Antonakis Christodoulou,Vassilis H, Margarita Myrogianni, Aliki Panagiotopoulou, and Kostas Sahpazis, working across the media of sculpture, installation,…
It was the install day yesterday for the final few elements of the MCH art programme. With the weather being fine and sunny we were able to get everything finished and up in one day. For more info on this project visit public art programme and stage two begins
Work commences on the final stage of the MCH public art programme.
With production underway it’s only a matter of weeks before the final artworks are installed in the hospital grounds and members of the community can put their spades into the soil… Hooray!
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This five week residency at the Danish Art Workshops with it’s spacious studio and access to this institutions amazingly well equipped workshops enabled an involved period of production to develop work for my part in a group exhibition ‘Between here and Somewhere Else’ at Overgaden, Institute of Contemporary Art. A special…
Very excited to be at Cove Park and be surrounded by an fantastic group of artists, writers and designers.
Alan Currall, Ruth Ewan, Maria Fusco, Will Holder, Panel and myself are all here for the next six weeks as part of Cove Park’s Visual arts creative development residency programme.
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A new series of drawings exploring an imagined landscape of highly stylised geometric forms and modern motif.
I’m completing the first stage of my role as lead artist for a public art programme at Midlothian Community Hospital – a new NHS psychiatric care hospital near Dalkeith. The resultant sculptures have been realised in conjunction with local craftpersons Malcolm Lemmon, James Fleming and members of the local community. …
Visual research made during visits to Nablus, Jericho, Ramallah, Bethlehem and East Jerusalem in the Palestinian occupied territories
Special thanks to contributing artists, musicians and makers:
Malcolm Lemmon, Scott Twynholm, Jenny O’Boyle and Becky Sik
Images of sculpture
Consultants: RMJM Art Commissioning
During the annual Flower Show at New Victoria Gardens, artist James Mclardy will be present to discuss his project “News from Nowhere”.
He has installed a makeshift bodger’s workshop in the Gardens and intends to use this to experiment with possible uses of traditional woodcraft in the production of his sculpture.
James…
This is an idea for an outdoor sculpture, made from large carved lumps of Tufa – a form of petrified moss traditionally used in 18th century grottos and features. By channeling run-off rain water from the building through a series of converted steel I beams and chain elements this artwork would slowly…