Tuesday 20 January 2009

More Calendar pics






More pictures of the Calendar in situ.... with thanks to Westend Cabinetmakers, Glasgow; Walter Simms, Designer,Callendar House: Gillian Smith, Community Engagement, Martin Richmond in Security, Elaine Craig Arts Development Officer for Music, Callendar House.

Yvonne's Kitchen



Here's an image of the Calendar in the kitchen of Yvonne Cieslar. Yvonne has recently moved to the Callendar High Flats and joined the Village Voice group, she featured in the October page of the Calendar modelling the Tank top made by Mandy McIntosh.

Thursday 15 January 2009


Here's an image of the Calendar up in the office of Ruth Barker, who organises the PARS website. We have been contributing to a blog for PublicArtScotland over the last year at www.publicartscotland.com

The Calendar in California


Here's an image sent by Alex from California, he's been in San Fran again.

Tuesday 13 January 2009

Calendar Pics - In Situ


Here's a picture of the Calendar up on the notice-board of Richard Higlett an artist based in Cardiff. (www.richardhiglett.com)
It would be great to get more images of any other Calendars now they have been sent out, so if you have received one, please take a photo and send a jpeg image to janienicoll@yahoo.co.uk. We'll include them in the next edition of the Village Voice magazine due out in February, or on the website.www.vvgroup-falkirk.org. Thanks !!

The TWINS Calendar

The TWINS Calendar 2009 has been distributed to every flat in the Callendar Park High Flats, featuring the work of 12 Scottish Artists as listed below. Each artist has been teamed up with a resident or with a member of the Village Voice group. The artworks were photographed in the home of each resident and also contain a selection of Scottish Recipes. We hope the Calendar will be a useful as well as an interesting household item.

JANUARY Alex Hetherington Judy Beattie
FEBRUARY Amy Marletta Irene Dickson
MARCH Cath Whippey Ann Miller
APRIL Hanneline Visnes Marion McLuckie
MAY Jim Colquhoun Dan Mailer
JUNE James McLardy Mary Johnston
JULY Janie Nicoll Isabel Johnston
AUGUST Kenny Hunter Helen Young
SEPTEMBER Lindsay Perth Helen Beurskens
OCTOBER Mandy McIntosh Yvonne Cieslar
NOVEMBER Rachel Mimiec Catherine Anderson
DECEMBER Tommy Grace Chris Smith

Information about the Artists

JANUARY Alex Hetherington
“Campaign For A Hollywood Walk of Fame In Falkirk 2009”

www.alexhetherington.com

FEBRUARY Amy Marletta
'Untitled'. Video Projection, Gold Shoes.

Amy Marletta is a visual artist based in Glasgow. Her work is multi disciplinary involving video, performance, music and collage. Amy graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee in 2002 and since then has exhibited at home and abroad. She is currently undertaking a Masters of Fine Art at Glasgow School of Art.
www.ganghut.co.uk

MARCH Cath Whippey

Cath Whippey aims to create magical and fascinating moments. In recent work she has explored metamorphosis, transformation and change through masks, worn items, sculpture and animation and video pieces. These are often experienced as temporary projects in public spaces, including projection and installation, in gallery exhibition and at artists’ film and video events.

http://cathwhippey.50webs.org/

APRIL Hanneline Visnes

“The Spoonmakers Diamond” Oil on Board, 29 x 25 cm

Hanneline was born in Bergen, Norway but lives and works in Glasgow. She gained a BA and MFA from Glasgow School of Art . She has exhibited widely in Britain and abroad and is represented by Doggerfisher Gallery, Edinburgh.
www.doggerfisher.com


MAY Jim Colquhoun

'A State of Nature' Poster work

Jim Colquhoun is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. His work seeks to negotiate the boundaries between art and life, waking and dreaming, fiction and fact. To this end he produces drawings, installations, performances and texts. He has shown recently in Edinburgh, Copenhagen, New York, Akureyri and Glasgow.

JUNE James McLardy

'Grand Parallel’ Tufa, Wood, Foam

James McLardy's work encompasses drawing, video and sculpture, which he combines in order to observe and arrange objects to suggest their gesture, narrative and authenticity. Recent sculptures bring together modern materials like MDF and silicon sealant with traditional methods and materials like wood carving, bronze casting and Tufa

www.glasgowsculpturestudios.org/
www.re-title.com/artists/james-mclardy


JULY Janie Nicoll

“Family History”

Installation, bed and digital projection of slide images.
Janie Nicoll generally uses photography and installation to make artworks. This digital projection was made using slides taken by Isobel’s late husband during the sixties and seventies. These had been left in a box, unseen for decades. They were scanned and made into a single digital image and projected, imitating the original slides.

AUGUST Kenny Hunter

"Out on the rolling Sea". Resin, paint, wooden roof shingle. 2008

Born in Edinburgh in 1962, Kenny Hunter studied sculpture at Glasgow School of Art between 1983 and 1987. He has exhibited extensively in Britain and Abroad including solo exhibitions at Arnolfini 1998, Scottish National Portrait Gallery 2000, CCA 2003 , Yorkshire Sculpture Park 2006 and Tramway, 2008. Hunter has also created a number of high profile, commissioned works in Scotland including; Cherub/Skull, 1997 for the Tron Theatre, Glasgow, Man walks among us, 2000, for Glasgow Museums, Youth with split apple, 2005 for Kings College, Aberdeen and Citizen Firefighter, 2001, outside Glasgow’s Central Station. Kenny Hunter lives and works in Glasgow.

SEPTEMBER Lindsay Perth

“Doorways” video work

Lindsay Perth is a Canadian born artist, who has lived in Scotland since 1986. A graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone in BFA Printmaking and PostDip Electronic Imaging, Perth’s artwork is often motivated by collaborative art processes. Many of her artworks engage with diverse social groups and individuals. Although predominantly but not defined by media based work, her approach is interdisciplinary and includes screen-based work, installation, photography and performance. She is currently artist-in-residence for Street Level Photowork's Collaborative Arts project, Multi-story.
www.lippi.org
www.multi-story.org


OCTOBER Mandy McIntosh

Tank Top

Mandy McIntosh is a Glasgow based artist who uses an array of media: animation, video and knitting in the development of her projects. Employing a variety of methods McIntosh’s work often responds to particular social, historical and geographical contexts. Mandy has recently been featured in the book “Knit Knit, Knitting's New Wave”.

www.hamandenos.com/

NOVEMBER Rachel Mimiec

“Moon Leaves” Aluminium leaves

Rachel Mimiec is an artist who works with people in communities, while also developing and exhibiting her own work. Her most recent exhibition was at Tramway in Glasgow and was the result of a residency in The Hidden Gardens.

www.rachelmimiec.com

DECEMBER Tommy Grace

“Fifteen Easy Pieces” Oil on Canvas

Tommy Grace's work is a play of opposites, balancing tight draftsmanship with messy gesture. Previous paintings present imagined ruins, meticulously drawn from Classical architecture but swimming beneath the random stains of Rorschach inkblots, or exquisite geometric patterns skilfully corralled from a testing combination of red wine and blotting paper. Taking the disposable detritus of our everyday, consumer-driven lives and playfully combining it with historical reference, Grace explores the legacy and lifespan of things, considering current visual culture through that of the past.

“Fifteen Easy Pieces” casts a realist eye across the scant remains of a dinner party and a chance display of abstract mini-masterpieces.

www.inglebygallery.com/