MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES
Artist in Residence
An ongoing public art project which began as an exploration in art & healthcare with patients and staff of the New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow.
The first phase of the project uses a public projection of macro-photography in the Atrium cafe / foyer space of the entrance hall of the new building.These images are designed to arouse curiosity and, hopefully, inspire calm …. all of them designed to facilitate the viewer’s own interpretation, to allow the viewer to decide what it is they are looking at, questioning what forms and colours aid well-being.
The second phase of the research projects involves installing myself in the foyer of the hospital– with a spread of macro-photographic images I’d taken (35mm film, printed) and a sign:
MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES
Patients & staff curious about what this might mean can join me while they wait (or as they pass) to transform these mistakes, or photos I deem ‘rubbish’, to (tear, cut, paste, shape) them into a kind of collage of what they would like to see. So, self-proclaimed ‘rubbish’ art becomes something else entirely, through a diversion into dialogue and the arousal of curiosity, taking one image deemed a failure and making it into something else. Re-framing, shifting perspectives on what we are looking at. Through a snatched moment and dialogue in passing. My favourite response to the visual text of the sign is:
“Oh, give them here, I know what this is all about”
TOONSPEAK YOUNG PEOPLE’S THEATRE
Artistic Director
Skye created ‘Word of Mouth’ – the spoken word project for young people interested in performing their own writing. With a large cast of mor than 25 11-24yr olds, she wrote, – Read more…
WIGTOWN BOOK FESTIVAL
Writer in Residence
‘How we can connect across distances and art-form divides?’
I journeyed with those coming to see the visual art festival, Spring Fling, sharing performance poetry on the bus tour and performing a – Read more…
OUTSIDE ART
Street Art Project
Collaboration with artists Akshayee Shetty & Colin Begg. A partnership with The Tramway & Glasgow Life through Cashback for Communities
A year-long unique mix of art-forms that sought to re-imagine the urban environment – Read more…
HIDDEN SPACES
Artist in Residence
How can we knit communities together through a re-consideration of green spaces between us?
A collaboration focused on how we can re-imagine the often dis-used green spaces between residents and buildings in Glasgow’s – Read more…
ARTS IN THE CITY
Artist in Residence
Young people between foster care, in 18 care homes across Glasgow city. Working in collaboration with digital artist and founder of Sense Kaleidescopes Banglaore Akshayee Shetty, this was a rolling – Read more…
SCOTTISH BOOK TRUST
Live Literature – Poet / Playwright in Residence
I’ve worked on a range of different approaches to writing both poetry and playwrighting within schools with a huge age range. Key to these approaches is – Read more…
GLASGOW LIFE
Artist-in-Residence, Ward 18, Phase 1
Focused on arousing curiosity in places and spaces of waiting and working with established groups in the area. Purpose: to create connections through creativity that could explore, ‘what would residents – Read more…
CAFE POET
Ampersand Cafe, Australian Poetry
Writing in situ, leaving anonymous poetry between the books on the shelves in envelopes labelled, ‘FOR YOU’.
VISIBLE FICTIONS THEATRE COMPANY
Playwright in Residence
Connecting with students at the then Greenock Academy (Gourock), to inspire writing for performance. Techniques included using drawing as a tool to explore classical playwrighting structures. Out of this residency – Read more…
MAKING A MAP OF MY MISTAKES
Artist in Residence
An ongoing public art project which began as an exploration in art & healthcare with patients and staff of the New Victoria Hospital, Glasgow.
The first phase of the – Read more…