Came across these while clearing my memory card, old progress shots of carved door during summer.
Wednesday 23 November 2011
next source of material?
57.637827,-5.789198
its a google map reference. type into google maps and zoom out to see exactly where.
its a google map reference. type into google maps and zoom out to see exactly where.
Monday 21 November 2011
Project Space crit response.
Have put off dealing with this for almost two weeks now, despite feeling happy with the eventual project space collaboration and exhibition. The reason for this lies within that feeling of satisfaction at having put together a successful collaborative show and not wanting to ruin that by dragging myself through a prolonged and deep reflection on it preferring to accept it for what I feel it was.
Anyway on with this response, will try to keep it brief....
During the crit Neil decided to trial a new method of critiquing the work, that being everybody gets a chance to ask a question/ raise an issue or simply comment upon the the work. This worked well and im presuming was instigated to prevent domination of the crit by either one or two people which is frequently the danger. The everyone gets a chance format allowed me to take notes for each person and their individual comments which in turn allowed me to see what issues cropped up repeatedly this meaning that these were the issues/ things most important to the viewers and these are what I will address.
1. Nostalgia/ memory/ aged- This was the most commented on, people were immediately drawn to the worn and slightly degraded appearances of the works. This was nice to hear as from the start Iain and I had strongly discussed this as a main theme of the work, that of being centred around history/ memory and the dislocation or degradation of these, so to hear that this aspect came across in the work was really heartening.
2. The material - alot of comments were directed towards the nature of the materials used especially that of the absorbent nature (with regards to light) of the plaster blocks. Again this was good to hear, the importance of natural light in the work and the changing aspect of this meant that the materials used had to blend with the ambient light, moving with it and working with it so as to enforce the transitional nature of Iain's image giving a life to the still image that had maybe been slightly lost in its transition to print as well as linking to the changing light in the video installation.
3. The video installation- The video installation was unfortunately not placed within the same room as the rest of the works due to installation problems and with the required natural light being too powerful to allow the projector to project the image across the space as we had intended. This meant the durational aspect of the work was sadly not as obvious. The method of display (with the projected film) also drew alot of discussion though having been to see the "Beholder" exhibition at talbot rice gallery (where there were projectors everywhere) im not sure it was fair comment to include a projector as something to be criticised upon as it was clearly a means to an end.
Anyway all things considered it was in Iain and my opinions a good show a good collaboration and was well received which is the main thing.
I know i said i would try to keep it brief but that proved to be impossible. Have been going at this for a while and shortened it all i could. If you read it all I'll buy you a beer. :)
Anyway on with this response, will try to keep it brief....
During the crit Neil decided to trial a new method of critiquing the work, that being everybody gets a chance to ask a question/ raise an issue or simply comment upon the the work. This worked well and im presuming was instigated to prevent domination of the crit by either one or two people which is frequently the danger. The everyone gets a chance format allowed me to take notes for each person and their individual comments which in turn allowed me to see what issues cropped up repeatedly this meaning that these were the issues/ things most important to the viewers and these are what I will address.
1. Nostalgia/ memory/ aged- This was the most commented on, people were immediately drawn to the worn and slightly degraded appearances of the works. This was nice to hear as from the start Iain and I had strongly discussed this as a main theme of the work, that of being centred around history/ memory and the dislocation or degradation of these, so to hear that this aspect came across in the work was really heartening.
2. The material - alot of comments were directed towards the nature of the materials used especially that of the absorbent nature (with regards to light) of the plaster blocks. Again this was good to hear, the importance of natural light in the work and the changing aspect of this meant that the materials used had to blend with the ambient light, moving with it and working with it so as to enforce the transitional nature of Iain's image giving a life to the still image that had maybe been slightly lost in its transition to print as well as linking to the changing light in the video installation.
3. The video installation- The video installation was unfortunately not placed within the same room as the rest of the works due to installation problems and with the required natural light being too powerful to allow the projector to project the image across the space as we had intended. This meant the durational aspect of the work was sadly not as obvious. The method of display (with the projected film) also drew alot of discussion though having been to see the "Beholder" exhibition at talbot rice gallery (where there were projectors everywhere) im not sure it was fair comment to include a projector as something to be criticised upon as it was clearly a means to an end.
Anyway all things considered it was in Iain and my opinions a good show a good collaboration and was well received which is the main thing.
I know i said i would try to keep it brief but that proved to be impossible. Have been going at this for a while and shortened it all i could. If you read it all I'll buy you a beer. :)
Plaster Texturising- get it? comedy gold right there.
Experimenting with thinner plaster blocks and trying to transfer text to the surface during the casting process in a similar way that I have done previously with old phone book pages on mdf then printed over. Dont think this is too successful bit disappointed really had high hopes for this but thats what trials are for.
Thursday 17 November 2011
Film Footage
Film footage that was installed at project space exhibition by Iain Sutherland and Gregor Morrison.
Be warned the whole film is half an hour long.
Be warned the whole film is half an hour long.
project space images
Selection of photos from the project space install, photographic single colour screen prints on cast plaster blocks. By Iain Sutherland and Gregor Morrison
Friday 11 November 2011
Tuesday 8 November 2011
uh oh
three days till project space and everything seems to be falling apart on me. really not helping get this project off the ground.
Project Space invite
Project Space will be on Firday 11th of November, new collaborative work by Iain Sutherland and Myself. Co2 Project Space Edinburgh College of art
Monday 7 November 2011
Thursday 3 November 2011
oh shit does this make me a sculptor...
It seems I can no longer get by without now being referred to as a sculptor, apparently referring to what I do as "3d collages" doesn't cut it.
Not entirely sure how I feel about being pigeon holed like this, I guess it kinda balances out the fact that I used to call myself a printmaker when the general term of artist would be more applicable. Makes the age old question "so what do you do?" even harder to answer without sounding like either a rambling fool who cant seem to make their mind up or a complete pompous ass.
Went to visit a friend of mine doing the illustration masters and she introduced me to her contemporaries as: "this is Gregor he's a sculptor" .
Not entirely sure how I feel about being pigeon holed like this, I guess it kinda balances out the fact that I used to call myself a printmaker when the general term of artist would be more applicable. Makes the age old question "so what do you do?" even harder to answer without sounding like either a rambling fool who cant seem to make their mind up or a complete pompous ass.
the first scrapings
Trial carving first block of plaster, the T was done with my chisels but soon worked out that they dont work properly with half wet plaster. rest of the word was done with a knife and it worked wonderfully so quick and clean lines.
Project space?
New plaster blocks cast using old print frames. really pleased with the uniform flat surfaces. more to be done to them after they have dried out some. Struggling with connotations, sculptural overtones, burial, biblical, architecture, permanence..........
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