notes from the drifting spaces
Blair’s art notes…
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GSA Master of Fine Art 2014 Degree Show Highlights
This year’s MFA from Glasgow School of Art was a very strong showing of many mature and confident works that, after several years of mixed MFA degree shows, really lived […]
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Hovering on above Caithness (Northern Scotland – Orkney)
arctic skuas, guillemots and black backs, probing – swaying – with low and high motion intersplicing retrieving coordinates – rangag, ruard glas mheall liath, coir a’ghiubhsachain skaill, point of hellia […]
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Becoming transparent, movement underfoot (Northern Scotland – Orkney)
texture of a rockface perhaps, all golden, scratched fissures – present and distant becoming transparent borrowed scenery fading now movement underfoot – methods and signals, all interweaving
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Pier Arts Centre ‘Living Colour’ Exhibition, Stromness
Probably one of Scotland’s best art galleries although far from the cities in the beautiful Orkney Mainland, the artwork at The Pier Arts Centre in Stromness (which has a connection […]
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Best wishes to Glasgow School of Art after the recent fire in the Mackintosh
Hope the school and the students, especially those in their final fourth year who were busy working on their degree shows and so were most affected by the fire in […]
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Music Collaboration with Stuart Corkindale
I had been thinking about sound explorations to work into a new film and friend, and very talented and versatile musician Stuart, kindly offered to record some sound with me. […]
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Studio preparation for new artworks…
Working with liquidy acrylics and Japanese Sumi inks with knives and big brushes, have been in the studio grounding some surfaces as well as drawing out some ideas and playing […]