Installation shot including various works by Salvador Dali “Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagined, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.” - André Breton, Manifesto of … Continue reading Surreal Encounters: Collecting The Marvelous
I recently moved to Edinburgh and am still configuring its layout and exploring the city almost a month later. I feel this sense of exploration will be constant the whole time I am here. Edinburgh is one of those cities where you are never stuck for things to do, or places to see, or areas … Continue reading Edinburgh Escapism
I've been away from the blog for a while as I felt I needed some reflection time. Time to stop and contemplate. Time to consider and reflect. I wanted to take a step back from everything following the pace of life during degree show period. Both my creative and mental energy had been wholeheartedly consumed and … Continue reading A Time of Reflection
Catherine McLaughlin So today marks the final day of Northumbria University's Fine Art Degree Show. It all closes at 4pm so get yourself down to catch a final glimpse of all the amazing work on display. I will be doing my final performance in Gallery North at 2:30pm which is both exciting and unbelievable. It will … Continue reading The End is Nigh
Surrounding myself with so much contemporary art can sometimes be exhausting; there's so much technology to take into consideration with this genre, so many modes of display and notions of space that you have to consider in the reading of it. For me it's really refreshing to take a step back from it all and … Continue reading Sculptural History
It's weird, but sometimes the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art is the thing that makes me feel most Scottish! That's not because there's a bunch of Scottish memorabilia in it - far from it! Instead there's an impressive collection of artworks ranging from Francis Bacon, to Andy Warhol, to David Hockney, to one of my … Continue reading Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
I think it's say to say that Benedict Drew's wacky installation was by far my favourite work in The British Art Show 8. Exhibited within the Talbot Rice Gallery, Drew's work is the definition of transforming a space into something completely new and exciting. What had been quite a clean cut angular-looking gallery space prior to … Continue reading Benedict Drew
