Masterclass in preparation for Richard Demarco’s staging of their opera ‘Euorpa’ for the Edinburgh Festival. AW standing centre, Sofia Kalinska (Tadeusz Kantor’s lead actress) front right. The team included Ariel Dorfmann (writing), Nigel Osbourn (music), Sofia Kalinska (drama), AW (props & costume)
Photo: Richard Demarco, Demarco Digital Archive.
Moved to 5 Park View, Arbroath, where, for the first time, there was extensive working space both inside and out.
Cutting one of the woodblocks for Memoria based on a photograph by Peter A Hall. The finished print on calico was made with assistance from Michael Waight.
Photo: Michael Waight.
Opening of the work, A History of Scottish Performance, at Aberdeen Maritime Museum, as part of the exhibition, Singing for Dead Singers, which continued at Aberdeen Art Gallery and three further venues in the city.
Photo: Arthur Watson.
Working with Will Maclean on the pattern for our bronze sculpture Crannghal for Sabhal mor Ostaig, the Gaelic College on the Isle of Skye. The pattern was made over an extended period at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop and cast with foundryman, Eden Jolly who also supervised the installation. The image shows Will Maclean patinating the finished bronze.
Photo: Arthur Watson
Installing Northing & Easting (extended) at the exhibition, The Sea, curated by Bill Scott & Colin Greenslade for the Royal Scottish Academy. From left to right: Mariota Spens, Michael Spens (editor, Studio International), Colin Greenslade ( RSA Director), Janet McKenzie Spens, (author & art critic), David Maclean (artist/musician).
Photo: Andy Rice.
Engineers installing the first phase of the Cairn Gorm Art Project. The ring of text details climbers’ routes up cliffs illustrated on screen printed panels, developed from photographs, by Andy Rice.
Image from documentary footage, Cairn Gorm Mountain.
Moved into a new building in Perth. On the ground floor is the office of Fergus Purdie, Architect, and on the upper two floors studio, library, and minimal living space. We also redeveloped a late 18th century building (bought complete with demolition order) at the back of the site, giving workshop and storage space.
Photos: Andy Rice.
The installation At The Court of King Arthur, by polish artist, Magdalena Abakanowicz. One of ten installations by four Scots and six Europeans who had been promoted by Richard Demarco. The exhibition, Richard Demarco, Scotland & the European Avant Garde was curated with Euan McArthur for the Royal Scottish Academy.
Photo: Chris Park.
Elected 21st president of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture.
L-R: Gareth Fisher (Treasurer), Paul Furneaux, Jacki Parry, AW, Marion Smith (Secretary), Joyce Cairns (Deputy President)
With waxes for the lost wax casting of part of the Iolaire Memorial at Powderhall Bronze, Edinburgh. The memorial was to be the final project in WW100 Scotland, commemorating the dead of the Great War. A partnership with Will Maclean, who cast a seaman’s wreath set into a wall with seating by Marian Leven. The bronze of the heaving line (above) was paired with bronze arcs naming the 201 men who lost their lives.
Photo: Will Maclean.
Invited to participate in Living-Language-Land one of the British Council COP26 Creative Commissions, for the climate summit in Glasgow. This offered a platform for minority language-holders to select a word emphasising land or nature. “Scrogs” comes from a ballad sung by a North East traveller family, and making connections to folklorist, Hamish Henderson; gallery director, Richard Demarco; & German polymath and founder of the German Green Party, Joseph Beuys.
Raptor Patch by Alan Grieve & WORKSPACEDUNFERMLINE, an exhibition and performance as a visual response to buzzard activity around Caputh Hill in Perthshire. Part of an ongoing series of exhibitions and installations in the Window, a public-facing space at 5 Melville Street, Perth, organised with Fergus Purdie.
Photo: Andy Rice
In effect three solo exhibitions with Lennox Dunbar & Ian Howard at Aberdeen Art Gallery. AW with photographer Stuart Johnstone.
Photo: Andy Rice