Archive for the ‘Dolls’ Category
12.18.2010
Shitheen puppets - Sleeping Beauty
Photo by Douglas Robertson.The puppets finished and on stage. Dundee Rep Theatre production of Sleeping Beauty.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
11.30.2010
no drawing but lots of puppet making
Sleeping Beauty Rehearsal puppets
Final hairy Shitheen puppet. Head along to Dundee REP Theatre’s production of Sleeping Beauty to see them in action. It may not say so in the program but I designed and made them!
- Category:
- Dolls, Recent Work, theatre
10.10.2009
Cupar Arts Festival 2009
Thank you for a lovely time (Sleeping Beauty) collaboration with Cherie Sullivan. St Columbas, Millgate open 12-6 tuesday to friday, 10-6 saturday, 1-4 Sunday. 10th - 25th October. My work can also be seen at Inside Out, North Union St.
- Category:
- Dolls, Exhibitions, Recent Work
06.15.2009
sneek peek
The beginning of new work for this years Cupar Arts Festival, a collaboration with painter, Cherie Sullivan.
- Category:
- Dolls, Exhibitions
06.17.2008
An afternoon of play
This is another Mickey Mallet collaboration. I made the house during the Masters and left it for the skip when we finished. Mickey took it home and collaged it for us to, possibly, use it as a prop for our Lars filming. We had a great day filming that day, we just played and had a laugh. Some people would just not understand that this is all part of the creative process. What a day job to have!
Last week I went to a talk on the corpse in contemporary art at the Fruitmarket, it was quite interesting but very short, only half an hour. I was expecting something a bit more indepth, nevermind, I had a good day out anyway. I got to see Louise Bourgeois at Inverleith House at Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. She is still totally my hero. Really liked the simplicity of her mark making to create such beautiful work. I found it interesting that she still finds sex, birth and the demands of children to be relevant to her. This also connects with my feelings about my Granny’s internment last week, she wanted her ashes to be buried with her mother rather than my grandpa, whom she was married to for 60 years. Even at 92 she wanted to go back to her mum. Back to Louise, I hope I’m still physically able to create at 96!
It’s been not a bad week, I’m going to meet up with a theatre director for a chat about involving myself with her theatre company, don’t want to say too much at the moment since we’ve not had the chat yet, might not lead to anything, but still a positive step. I may also be doing a lecture at Telford college for my best pals class, that will be weird. She might start heckling me. And I am applying for the Artistic Assistant job at the National Theatre of Scotland, which would be really good.
Well, I think I shall be off, now I have spread positivity through the net.
- Category:
- Dolls, Misc, Recent Work
05.8.2008
New studio and parties
It’s been a while since I’ve had a chance to update my blog, I’ve been quite busy of late. A huge amount of time was spent preparing for my daughters 4th birthday last week. Next year I will have far more casual approach, I think.
No actual work yet but I’m feeling very positive about the future. I moved into WASPS on Tuesday so that was a bit exciting. Feels really nice to be surrounded by people, even if I haven’t seen anyone yet. I have spent the last couple of days cleaning and moving stuff in, for those of you who are familiar with the studios in Dundee you’ll know that is no mean feat. My legs are feeling the benefits of all those stairs
- Category:
- Dolls, Misc, Recent Work
03.29.2008
My new friends
These lovely dolls were given to me by my friend Mhairi, they have been handed down to many people before finding a permanant home with me.
- Category:
- Dolls