Great to be showing alongside Belfast artists Tony Hill, Susan Connolly and Louise Wallace amongst many others at House for An Art Lover, Glasgow. Fully Awake is an ongoing series of painting shows organised by Ian Hartshorne and Sean Kaye.
Friday 3 November 2017
Tuesday 15 August 2017
The Painter Pinched Into Action
"Tuesday evening, June 6th
2017
It has been a particularly bad
day in the studio, full of painting problems. I retire for a while and,
aimlessly it seems at first, reach for a book, although when I settle on
Berger’s The Shape of a Pocket, my aimlessness seems to hold the hope of
becoming a deliberate action. Normally in such circumstances, I have habitually
turned to books about painters to find a way around painting problems, but in
recent months it is increasingly the written word- of a novelist, an essayist, or
perhaps a short story writer- that has provided me with solace. Berger’s words
have very often carried me as a painter, so I remain hopeful, this Tuesday
evening, as I decide to turn to ‘A Man with Tousled Hair'."
-excerpt from a paper to be presented at 'John Berger Now' conference at Canterbury Christ Church University, 11th-13th September.
Monday 14 August 2017
Subjects of the Artist
Some nice documentation of the short-lived art school run by Robert Motherwell, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and others- with a lecture programme including some minor names such as William de Kooning and Joseph Cornell.
Smithsonian Archives
Smithsonian Archives
Wednesday 5 July 2017
I Am Not A Painter
Great to see James Merrigan back, +Billion- may be no more, but here is his fine reincarnation:
IAMNOTAPAINTER
IAMNOTAPAINTER
Monday 3 July 2017
Thursday 29 June 2017
A Dream and an Argument
Dougal McKenzie, A Dream and an Argument, The MAC Belfast, June 30th- October 8th 2017:
'A
Dream and an Argument' represents a major new body of work by Edinburgh-born,
Belfast based artist Dougal McKenzie. It brings together key elements of
McKenzie’s practice: an interest in history and storytelling through images,
and an investigation into whether it is possible to represent these as ‘memory’
in painting.
The title of the exhibition is taken
from a chapter in Allan Massie’s ‘The Ragged Lion’: a partly fictional, partly
factual account of the Scottish historical novelist and poet, Sir
Walter Scott’s life. Like the book, McKenzie’s work weaves together fact and
fiction, melding objective history with subjective narrative.
“Being ‘home’ in Edinburgh last
summer, I realised that, having neglected it for so long, a number of things
were prompting me to address a directly autobiographical sort of history; some
of it personal, some of it more lightly connected. Walking around the city,
re-reading Walter Scott’s ‘The Heart of Mid-Lothian’, reflecting on the
Porteous Riots that took place on the High Street in 1736, and visiting St.
Margaret’s Loch with my father, who recalled it as a boating pond.
Remembering also that he had been
part of the 'Rectorial Battles' at Edinburgh University’s Quad (which, I had noticed, was
a location for parts of the James Mason film ‘Journey to the Centre of the
Earth’). I captured an image of my young son running around the same Quad, and
imagined that he too was moving through history. These narratives and
reflections coalesced and consolidated very firmly as subjects for paintings."
For McKenzie, the title of the exhibition aptly describes his personal understanding of painting and also the way in which memory seems to act as we reflect on things: A Dream and an Argument.
link to: The MAC Belfast
'Set for a Painting (Quad)'/ reverse view/ The MAC Belfast, June 2017
Arlene Dahl/ Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) dir. Henry Levin
Studio/ February 2017
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