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 up to the challenge of the space. The Glue Factory presents artists with the opposite of a white cube space, it is an old converted
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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 splitting through eastern sutherland hovering above caithness, plunging into clear green depths shining, from waters to coconut fragrance melting yellows, beyond into wide moors –
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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 to the Tate) is often nicely presented and curated. And so I wasn’t disappointed by their recent exhibition ‘Living Colour’ which a friend had recommended
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