Two works are currently on display as part of a public art project in Dumfries town centre. The Niche Gallery is a public art project curated by Denise and Mark Zygadlo placing a rotating programme of artwork in two niches in the midsteeple building. These niches originally built to house a barometer and a thermometer. It seems fitting that my works for the niches also reflecting on the weather and climate.
Niche 1 contains Ice Watches, works made on glass watch faces with glacial flour, the sediment left by receding glaciers. Here, the sediments and images were gathered at former sites of glaciers around Dumfries and Galloway.
Niche 2 houses unintended consequences, a series of 4 screen prints reproducing a photographic image of an Ice Watch of the Bietschhorn glacier. The images are also printed with glacial flour.Inconsistencies in the printing technique render the image differently each time. Arranged in sequence the image appears to be slipping away, becoming lost, distorted, or corrupted like a data transmission sent back from the future or from outer space. The work was developed through the support of the William Littlejohn award from the Royal Scottish Academy 2024 and was produced and with support from Glasgow Print Studio.
Ice Watch and Unintended Consequences is part of the wider Emergency! project about stuff emerging through the loss of glacial ice in the European Alps.
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Both niches on display together Until 20 December , Niche 2 continues into January.
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