The Great Collision ...Quebec and Glasgow UK
It is an exciting time for me I am collaborating with the wonderful visual artist Madeleine Samson from Quebec City. She is here staying with me for 5 weeks. We are now in our 4th week and we have been gathering source material from the beach at Dunure and Glasgow city in order to create some artists books and making small maquettes for our books
We have
been taking raw image photographs using Madeleine’s close up lens on her Nikon
camera which unfortunately my Mac does not have the software to recognise … so
whilst we sort out that hitch I will carry on regardless.
We spent
last week in Wales continuing our search for imagery on Conwy Morfa and West
shore Llanduno and the amazingly spooky quarry at Nantlle in Snowdonia. The car was full to the brim on our
return to Glasgow
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| The quarry at Nantlle |
We now
have a very full two weeks work ahead.
Yesterday we started a book collaboration with another Glasgow artist,
Moira Buchanan. So far it has been
a very democratic experience. We
decided as time was precious that we would choose objects in my studio as a
starting point and inspiration for our book.
We all agreed that we needed to work outside our comfort zone to make it a challenging experience. So we each selected two objects, one that we would naturally been drawn to work with and one that we would not dream of working with.
We all agreed that we needed to work outside our comfort zone to make it a challenging experience. So we each selected two objects, one that we would naturally been drawn to work with and one that we would not dream of working with.
We
narrowed down the choice with a vote of 1st 2nd and 3rd
choice and ended up with this.
Although we took it very seriously I have to say that this was quite an hilarious part of the process. We have ended up with two items that we all find extremely challenging to work with and is really going to push the boundaries.
Although we took it very seriously I have to say that this was quite an hilarious part of the process. We have ended up with two items that we all find extremely challenging to work with and is really going to push the boundaries.
In between all this we managed to visit the exhibition 'The First Cut' at Manchester City Art Gallery, what a fabulous show of international work
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| Nicola Dale's work |
We were at Manchester Artists Book Fair and the conference, Collaboration and the Democracy of Bookarts
1 comment:
Hi again Sue I am going slightly bonkers here as I am trying to get a url for Maddy
Do you have her website address please ??? Its for a static page with links to participants websites blogs etc
on the Unravelling Signatures blog
please will you send it to me.
Aine by the way
why don't you enable the
"Follow by Email"
gadget - its in the layout section of your dashboard.
loved seeing your book again when I came onto the blog here - its really lovely.
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