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Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:57:34 +0000

Deer A practice sketch from recent work.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:19:32 +0000

Deer

A practice sketch from recent work.

The stairs of Eilidh Primrose

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:04:07 +0100

The stairs of Eilidh Primrose

The Bowery Beckons Ever Closer

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:06:34 +0100

Tick Tock I return from travels and know I am a week closer to deadline day.

Yet on the up side I left in a state of dumfoundment as to what to do for the show in December. Having realized that all my work to date was too intricate to be seen in low light by alcohol embraced eyes. So for The Bowery it’s time to up my game and get some installations together. And it is time to go big. Can I come out with my best work yet in the next month? Time to work and see.

(BTW Prefuse 73 and Kelpe equal some brilliant electronica.)

anita jean's photostream

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 00:34:34 +0100

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Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:33:59 +0100

Save Union Terrace Gardens Green space can’t defend...

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 19:15:00 +0100

Save Union Terrace Gardens

Green space can’t defend itself. Defend it or watch it get filled in, you choose.

The hardest drawing to photograph well yet, aside from the 4m x 8m cut out for Kilau a few years back.

from drawings to photographs

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:15:00 +0100

Clearly with a photograph it is really easy to make an image and a little harder to remember what your doing.

Drawings take forever normally but that’s enough time to remember or figure out why it’s getting drawn.

Photographs can be a little more ‘oh that would make a good picture, hmm nice light’.

The previous set of photographs focus on circles, as do the earlier set of drawings (see further down blog). Circles not simply cause it’s a nice shape but because of it’s ability to contain space. Particularly a finite space. Much like our earth. Ever increasing demand, never changing size.

The space for tree’s, nature and green across the globe becomes a threatened species. There’s yet another reason for not concreting over the green of Union Terrace Garden. The felling of non productive green space is a world wide phenomenon and we don’t even have starvation or poverty as an excuse.

Circles

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:02:00 +0100

Circles

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Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:00 +0100

In May 2010 I will be Artist in Residence on Mounthooly...

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:47:30 +0100

In May 2010 I will be Artist in Residence on Mounthooly roundabout for the whole month. Come visit for a cup of tea and a tray bake.

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 15:21:01 +0100

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Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:49:17 +0100

Union Terrace Garden

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 00:50:03 +0100

Union Terrace Garden

Campain Website (click here)

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:37:10 +0100

Campain Website (click here)

Save Union Terrace Garden Petition (click here)

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:35:00 +0100

Save Union Terrace Garden Petition (click here):

Please support the saving of Union Terrace Gardens.
1- If you want to know why Sir Ian Wood’s plan is not the right one for the space or our city. Just ask I’d happily discuss it with you and… easy to talk to while I am still certain of my conviction.
2- If you want to know why in this case it is imperitive that you do show your support then please just discuss it with me, or one of the other supporters. Because this time it really does matter.

If you believe in your voice, or in democracy and the freedom to speech and your right to have influence over your city, then you need to stand up for it.
This isn’t a case of business ‘v’ arts. Or oil ‘v’ culture, this is a case of power and influence ‘v’ the citizen.
Even if your for Sir Ian Wood’s plan we could show you where the project has been undermining justice.
Our actions now will define whether our leaders respect, listen and act on our behalf or not in the future. This is important.

Aberdeen Uni conference

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:06:04 +0100

Aberdeen Uni conference

Video’d by Jon Reid. His first of this sort I think. I...

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:57:00 +0100

Video’d by Jon Reid. His first of this sort I think. I like the whole accept for the end bit where I feel like a tool. But hey it was an intense two weeks of drawing in that place and Jon put in a stellar effort. I’m really thankful.

The title is actually ‘If my garden is bigger, you live further away.’

As far as social/political theory and art goes I really thinking outloud. I’d like to work toward utopia, heaven on earth. What that would look like is still beyond my grasp so art tends to involve in the coversations I have internally. Pecocks are advertising a Aberdeen Uni conference on political theory and art etc. It’s on in October I’ll be heading there with Gilla Brooker another local artist. The links following.

April/May 09 I hope still for you.

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:36:00 +0100

April/May 09

I hope still for you.

‘Cow Aid Drop’ is my thought for a T-Shirt design for a local place. Really looking...

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 19:41:12 +0100

‘Cow Aid Drop’ is my thought for a T-Shirt design for a local place. Really looking forward to seeing what other folk put forward.