With the course, we travelled to Skye to work on a drawing project. I decided to really get interested in the idea of measuring the height of a hill. So I climbed down a hill and every half that there was left I snapped a twig in half too to establish a link between the [...]
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Skye’s the limit
Posted in Conceptual, sitespecific, Video, tagged fibonacci, fibonacci sequence, fractional infinity, golden sequence, half life, half of half, hill, maths, radiation art, richard long, skye, twig, walk, walking up hills on October 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Cabin Fever works
Posted in 2D, 3D, Artsy, Conceptual, Doomsday - Graded unit year two, sitespecific, time travel, tagged art, artowkr, ash cloud, choice, collection, dandelions, edinburgh sculpture workshop, exhibition, eyjafjallajokull, gordon douglas, icelandic volcano art, infinity, map, sixth dimension, sublime, time, vegetable patch, volcano, weeds on June 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Dandelions Map Vegetable Patch
Informative Exhibit
Posted in 3D, Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, Video, tagged 164 mounds, agassiz, artist books, blackford hill, blackford hill project, clean zone, design, dragging rock, exhibit, gordon douglas, leaflet, map, multimedia, noticeboard, panel, weather station on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
full view left panel top panel right panel multimedia access screen capture leaflets leaflet design
Exhibit
Posted in 3D, Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, tagged 164 mounds, agassiz rock, clean zone, dragging rock, exhibit, noticeboard, weather station on February 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Representative of the layout that I would be provided if I was to get a space at Hermitage House.
Leaflet and Artists Books
Posted in Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, tagged 164 mounds, 26 gasoline stations, agassiz rock, artists books, blackford hill project, blog, CD, clean zone, dragging rock, DVD, hermitage, internet, kozlowski, Laurie Anderson, leaflet, reality, shadows on a brick wall, sol lewitt, twentysix, weather station, william blake on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Artists books are works of art realised as books usually created in small editions or even one-of-a-kinds called uniques. It is seen as a late 20th Century movement but the origins date back to William Blake, who produced his own books along with his wife. After world war 2 artists books were seen as a [...]
Dragging Rock pt 2
Posted in Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, Video, tagged blackford hill, dragging rock, excellent recordings, hooray its quite brilliant, just lovely, loved how you did it over two seperate days, lovely, mark making, muddy work eh?, oh i do deserve the turner prize for this, oh yes rather spiffing, personal triumph, rock, stone, thank god its over on February 11, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Day One Day Two
Dragging Rock
Posted in Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, tagged 400m, art, blackford hill, canvas, dragging, drawing, graffiti, hermitage, hill, large scale, mark making, project, rock, rope, satellite image, stone, two days on February 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Continuing on with the theme that Blackford Hill is my canvas to make marks on, I decided to return one incredibly heavy stone back to the quarry. The rock was angular and obviously cut in a certain way so I wished to return what was taken from the land back to the land. It was [...]
The work I’ve done
Posted in Artsy, Blackford, Conceptual, sitespecific, tagged agassiz rock, art, blackford hill, clean, drip paintings, erosion, footsteps, glacial erosion, jackson pollock, louis agassiz, plastic, plucking, site-specific, snow, snowballs, weather station on February 1, 2010 | 5 Comments »
So far, its been a case of traveling up the hill, and working spontaneously which explains my absence from the computer and the blog. I’ve done a variety of different actions each based upon either the history of the hill or just reactions to what is up there. Agassiz’s Rock is a giant boulder investigated [...]
site-specific showdown
Posted in Artsy, Blackford, sitespecific, tagged allotments, Blackford, blackford hill, duckpond, edinburgh, hilltop, moonscape, observatory, statement of intent, woodland on January 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Draft for statement of intent Site & Development I have chosen to create a site-specific artwork based on or in the grounds of Blackford Hill. The area is very closely linked with leisure activities, being an excellent and interesting place to walk dogs, go for a jog, and an excellent hotspot for sledging in the [...]
