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Works produced as part of the Jon Schueler Scholarship whilst Visual Artist In Residence at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, Skye (Sep- Dec 2017).
During this time I considered the development of the new village of Kilbeg which was due to be built next to the SMO campus.
Waxing Moon, Setting Sun
Cyanotype series, 27.5 x 36cm each
These images were created using a combination of found Plaster of Paris (from a store cupboard, which coincidentally had the last day of the residency as the use by date) and collected plastic cups. These plastic cups were used throughout the college and could not be recycled. I calculated approximately 16,800 would have been discarded during my 3 month stay. The college now use compostable cups.
Signs for Kilbeg
Watercolour, graphite and wax on found admiralty chart in artist’s frame, 24 x 24cm
Based on seemingly signifcant scenes observed in the emerging landscape, these drawings form a speculative signage system for the future village. The deliberately restricted visual language is based on a drawing system I developed during the residency to reflect my limited ability to communicate in Gaelic.
The Kilbeg Commission
Screenprint, Risograph on paper, 14.8 x 21 cm, 16pp each
Selected spreads from a ‘library’ of booklets which catalogue various research strands exploring the imagined village of Kilbeg, under the pretence of official recordings, studies, anthropological enquiries and ambiguous experiments.