Tag: Frances Priest
Lines from Scotland – in Dunfermline
Our series of online INSIGHTS – giving viewers a chance to hear from the exhibition curator Amanda Game and some of the participating artists – will remain live on our online microsite exhibition.
Having had a very successful showing in NE Fife, Lines from Scotland now moves down to the SW of the Kingdom and takes up residence in Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries.
Curated by Amanda Game, Lines from Scotland explores some of the many, varied ways that Scottish artists work/have worked with drawing and physical acts of mark-making as a way of developing and communicating thoughts and ideas. It is designed to reveal something of the ever-evolving depth, diversity and richness of thinking in the arts in Scotland through linking works that spring from distinct disciplinary traditions, across media. Animation, archaeological records, botanical drawing, landscapes, portraits and designs for objects are just some of the lines that will be included.
Exhibitors span three generations:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Elizabeth Blackadder; Thomas A and Laurie Clark; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Andy Goldsworthy; Dorothy Hogg; John Houston; Susie Leiper; Michael Lloyd; Rory McEwen; Deirdre Nelson/Inge Thomson; Frances Priest; Carol Rhodes; Lizzie Sanders; David Shrigley; Lucy Skaer; Norma Starszakowna; Hanna Tuulikki/High Heels and Horse Hair; Frances Walker.
A small selection of archaeological drawings and photographic material from Historic Environment Scotland also feature to suggest some of the wider ways that human beings have drawn from and recorded their environments through time.
A 52 page, full colour publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition.
Header image: Work by Frances Priest, photo by Rob Page
Lines from Scotland
Fife Contemporary has commissioned independent curator Amanda Game to curate the exhibition Lines from Scotland.
It will be shown in Fife at St Andrews Museum (9 Nov 2019-22 Feb 2020) and touring to Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries (7 Mar-10 May 2020)
Curated by Amanda Game, Lines from Scotland explores some of the many, varied ways that Scottish artists work/have worked with drawing and physical acts of mark-making as a way of developing and communicating thoughts and ideas. It is designed to reveal something of the ever-evolving depth, diversity and richness of thinking in the arts in Scotland through linking works that spring from distinct disciplinary traditions, across media. Animation, archaeological records, botanical drawing, landscapes, portraits and designs for objects are just some of the lines that will be included.
Exhibitors span three generations:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Elizabeth Blackadder; Thomas A and Laurie Clark; Ian Hamilton Finlay; Andy Goldsworthy; Dorothy Hogg; John Houston; Susie Leiper; Michael Lloyd; Rory McEwen; Deirdre Nelson/Inge Thomson; Frances Priest; Carol Rhodes; Lizzie Sanders; David Shrigley; Lucy Skaer; Norma Starszakowna; Hanna Tuulikki/High Heels and Horse Hair; Frances Walker.
A small selection of archaeological drawings and photographic material from Historic Environment Scotland also feature to suggest some of the wider ways that human beings have drawn from and recorded their environments through time.
A 52 page, full colour publication has been produced to accompany the exhibition.
Header image: St Andrews Looking West, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust; photo by Bruce Pert.
Set of bools take up permanent residence in Kirkcaldy
One of the 4 sets of ‘Buckhynd Braes Bools’ created as part of FCA&C’s Coastal Path project has recently been donated to Fife Museums at Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery.
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Frances Priest takes 'bools' to Germany
Artist Frances Priest spent some of the latter part of 2010 as one of three artists employed by FCA&C to work with various groups in Fife and create some kind of alternative guide to the Fife Coastal Path. Frances and her group, based in Buckhaven, ended up going on a ceramic voyage of discovery to find out how to make ceramic carpet bowls – something the area had been famous for many decades earlier.
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Fun and feasting at yesterday's bowls' event
A great afternoon was had by all who came to Buckhaven Community Centre to join in the bowls’ tournament. The event was formally opened by Gavin Grant of Fife Libraries, Arts & Museums, who gave the audience a short history of the carpet bowls’ industry in Fife. Information and sketchbooks had also been laid out by ceramicist Frances Priest and the potters involved in the project about the processes they used to create the bowls and also their inspiration.
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BBB Tournament
We have set the date for the BBB Bowls Tournament – Thursday 25th November 1pm – 3pm at Buckhaven Community Centre. It will be a chance to see and play with the bools we have been making and to meet some of the designers. Tea and cake will be served. All are Welcome. Continue reading “BBB Tournament”
Decoration Begins
Our group met up again on Thursday for a day of exploring decoration techniques. We looked at under-glaze sponge printing and painting, incising and inlay and on-glaze transferes. It was great to see how the designs work on the three dimensional forms and I think we all had a sense of the project really starting to come together.
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BBB's Rolls On…
The Buckhind Braes Baws project is rolling along and we are fast approaching the completion of the design stage. Our multi talented group have embraced every aspect of the project so far, developing exciting and individual responses to the Fife Coastal Path at Buckhaven. Collectively these ideas will form curios, beautiful and intriguing pattern designs for our sets of carpet bowls.
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Buckhaven Carpet Bowls
The first time I saw a set of carpet bowls was in an antique shop in Edinburgh, not long after I’d moved to Scotland to study ceramics at Edinburgh College of Art. Prettily patterned and coloured, some in pristine condition, others dinted and chipped through years of use and play, these typically Scottish ceramic toys caught my eye and stuck in my memory. An invitation from FCA&C to take up one of the Fife Coastal Path Residencies has brought that memory back into sharp focus and inspired an idea to make contemporary versions of the carpet bowls.
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