NC Art Portfolio End of Year Exhibition

This year the NC`s put together an End of Year Exhibition featuring work

from all the art department courses from the NC Art Portfolio,

BA Fine Art 1,2 & 3 to the new Introduction to Art, Design & Textile.

Its a fantastic exhibition and a great way to showcase what the

Orkney College Art&Design Department has to offer.

(you never know it might just inspire you to sign up and join one of the many courses?!)

BA 2&3 latest artworks

Also finished for this semester was my fellow students and here`s a

peedie look at their final set ups!!

Beccy May 

(Level 3, CP4)

`Enso-200 moments`

(paint on wall)

`Enso-200 circles`

Ink on paper

`Many Hands Make Light Work`
(Plaster&scrim)

Ruth

(Level 2,CP2)

Jean

(Level 2,CP2)

Installation title `Shield`

Sarah

(Level 2,CP2)

`Trace 1,2,3`
(printed images)

`The Family Albums (2107)`
(cyanotypes)

`The family Albums (2017)`
(photograph/gram)

Kelly

(Level 2,CP2)

Installation title `The Interrupted Mind`

Sue

(Level 2, CP1)

Installation title `A Phenomenology of Everyday Things`

Wendy

(Level 2)

Julie

(Level 2)

It was really good to see everyone`s work out and up on display!

It all looked fantastic and showed how differently each of us

approached our art practice.

And here`s Kelly giving mines the thumbs up or was it she finished
 setting up and ready for the off?????

Creative Practice 4

That`s the end of another year for me with the completion of Creative Practice 4!
This semester I`ve been working with steel, concrete and collograph to create more
family inspired sculptures.

Artist Statement

My current work explores the concept of communication through time
 and in particular how elements of our past can be deciphered 
in the future by information embodied within objects.
Influenced by Orkney`s Neolithic heritage and the methods employed
by archaeologists to interpret meaning from its material culture.
These contemporary works reveal conversations which resonate with the
 ancient monuments and their inscriptions.
My artworks, inspired by modern constructions in the landscape incorporate
personal data which create connections between the past and present, with a
future narrative to be discovered. They will become a historical account of my
family, myself and of course my art practice in 2017.

Final set up for marking..............

I was really pleased with the way everything came together!

A look at the individual pieces...........

`For the time.......being` 
(welded steel)

`Silent Echo`
(digital print) 

`The Key Stone`
(concrete with relief cryptogram)

close up image highlighting relief.

`Concretograph Plate`
(cardboard)

`Yesterday's`s Journey`
(collograph print)

Growth Exhibition

Friday night saw me head over the barriers to The Loft Gallery in St Margret`s Hope for the opening of `Growth` a new collection of textile works by Emma Fraser, Jean Malone and Morag Tweedie.

These three artists share similar passions for making art work through textile and stitch. 

This exhibition shows the use of these techniques to depict the natural world, it`s flora and fauna.

Emma Fraser

Emma`s work comes from her childhood obsession with peat moss where 

she saw the beauty in it`s detail, pattern and colour.

Jean Malone

Jean explores the relationship between flower/plants and insects: Their similarities as in intricate patterns and colour, life-cycles and how they can be both delicate and yet incredibly resilient.

Morag Tweedie

Morag is currently fascinated by field boundaries with their colour, textures and patterns and has combined this with her love for common wild flowers that grace the landscape.

It was a truly beautiful selection of works and was well worth the drive there.

The exhibition is on from the 22nd April - 23rd May and for anyone who loves this kind of art work,

its a must see!!

Festival of Deep Time

The Festival of Deep time comprises a series of interdisciplinary workshops, talks and field-trips throughout the weekend, to engage the community with the project.

For more information on the weekend events click on the link below

http://www.pierartscentre.com/events/21/4/2017/festival-of-deep-time

And Anne Bevan our  Art and Design Curriculum Leader at Orkney College will be featuring her work in association with the project.

`Picture perfect!!`

Endeavour Exhibition

Endeavour

 - a creative collaboration

25th March - 17th April 2017

Pier Arts Centre

This exhibition was a project that brought together two of the PAC`s on going programme`s, the Piergroup and their work with BA (Hons) students at Orkney College and is the result of several months of creative exchange with the artist Neville Gabie.

BA (Hons) Level 3 student Beccy May helped curate the exhibition as part of her Professional Practise module and the resulting show presents a selection of works that highlight the interactions of the participants.

Neville Gabie

`Endeavour`
This piece was a continuous line drawing created on a train journey by Neville and what began as a straight line ended being more like a wave showing the motion of the train.

Beccy May

`Many Hands make Light Work`
(L-Stone mason /R-Farmer)

`Stone work`

Piergroup

`Experiments in sand`
(short video sketch)

`Collaboration Black & White`

`Polaroid Project`

`Sketchbook Stories`

Displayed on a shelf were the sketchbooks that `travelled` - to and fro between the art students in Orkney and Neville Gabie.

Erlend Firth

This mixed media piece was one of twelve, displayed in a straight line. Each 

one was dominated by the bright orange dot which immediately caught the viewers eye.

Kathrine Diaper

`Scarth`

(images on out of date photographic paper)

The word `endeavour` was the vehicle to which all the art works on display was generated from and demonstrates a wealth of artist endeavour.

This is just a small sample of what can be seen at the PAC 

and with so much more on offer, its a 

worth while visit!!

Innovators Exhibition

Innovators

Orkney`s Art graduates 

2015 & 2016

25 February - 17 April 2017

Pier Arts Centre

This exhibition celebrates the work of young artists who have studied in Orkney, either as school pupils or as undergraduates. All have gone on to gain degree awards in art, design or architecture from art school or colleges throughout the UK.

This was a fantastic and inspirational show, especially for those of us still at college!!

It also demonstrated the diversity and talent of our island folk.

Russell Gilmour 

In his work, Russell considers the complex relationship between our outer and inner self 

exploring these divergent worlds through his drawing and painting.

Charlotte Slater

Charlotte has her degree in Landscape Architecture and now works as a Marine Spatial Planning Officer in Shetland where she has been conducting a coastal character assessment. A relatively new method that looks at a variety of topics such as geology, history, industry and culture.

Erlend Firth

Erlend is an interior designer who strives to create playful spaces based on in-depth research making subtle references to fine art and popular culture.

Leanne Fisher

As a product designer, Leanne is increasingly concerned with the ecological impact of product manufacture and disposal. She questions the need for so many products and if design could be used, not to sell but rethink the role objects play in our lives?

Emma Fraser

Emma`s installation was titled `Forty Winks`  through which she created a dream like web that drew the viewer in and included crystallised objects that related to the dreams of family and friends.

Rachel Blair

Rachel is a jewellery designer and combines precious metal with hand-dyed papers to create pieces that express tension, pressure and balance between the materials.

Anna Clark

Anna works in an intuitive yet methodical way, her ideas evolve and develop organically through the physical and repetitive action of cutting paper.

Samantha Marwick

This piece was titled `Time Travel` and merged together a tobacco tin, music box and dandelion to create a puzzling yet compelling piece. Samantha`s work revolves around collecting and play, displaying natural and discarded objects together to address more complex issues surrounding our relationship with the environment.

Kirstin Wishart

Titled `Scan Results 1 - 3` these light box prints had an underlying impetus that was prompted by Kirstin`s personal and close family experiences of breast cancer.

Susan Boyd

These digital images of human form are some what disturbing when viewed through a fish-eyed lens.
Susan`s work explores attitudes and responses to the human body, through her work she seeks to challenge and question established perceptions of age, gender and stereotypes.

This is just a small example of what this exhibition has to offer so if you want to appreciate it in it`s entirety then I recommend you go along to the Pier Arts Centre and take a look, it`s well worth it!!