Posts by Patricia
The Climate Conference Cannot be Cancelled -Collaboration with performance & Theatre maker Katrine Turner
‘The Climate Crisis Can’t Be Cancelled’ is a participatory school performance in which characters wearing costumes of different found (often non-recyclable) materials turn up at a primary school to host a rescheduled COP26 climate summit. I worked collaboratively with the Performance/Theatre maker Katrine Turner on this project. My contribution was to design and make the…
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SALTHOUSE takes place in two distinct but connected settings. The first is an abandoned Salthouse at Prestwick beach on the west coast of Scotland: semi-rural, post-industrial, intertwined with the natural world yet apart from it. The second is in the corridors of the McLellan Galleries in the nearby city of Glasgow – a place once culturally…
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tit-bits An Exhibition of Drawings and Sculptures by Fiona Robertson tit-bits… a pleasing bit of something, a morsel, this and that; a title borrowed from the infamous, though shortlived British magazine of the 1880s, which collated for her readers a selection of informative snippets, jokes, and stories. To the millions who read them each week, these tit-bits were…
Read MoreThe Cook the Cupboard and Joan of Arc
‘The cook, the cupboard and Joan of Arc’ (2020) ‘The cook, the cupboard and Joan of Arc’ (2020) A dreamlike product of the long lockdown, ‘The Cook, the Cupboard and Joan of Arc’ draws on the tableau vivant of early renaissance painting and the films of second wave feminist performance artists to create a commentary…
Read MoreEbbtide floodtide
ebbtide floodtide (2020) 7:19 The setting of ebbtide floodtide – a derelict outdoor swimming pool, gradually being eroded and absorbed by the rising sea – is a place between places. The sea and the shore; the artificial and the natural; the settled past and the post-human future. The characters within the film reflect this clash…
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BAD SHEEP – Nursery Crymes Edit BAD SHEEP is a commissioned work consisting of short film and large scale sculptural installation, to exhibit as part of a touring site-specific promenade production by the theatre company ‘The Mischief La Bas’ ‘Nursery Crimes’ project. The project premiered in November 2017, the promenade performance taking place over two nights…
Read MoreStoryville Portraits Project
This new body of work predominately though not exclusively paintings was made in response to the Storyville Portraits. The little known photographer E.J. Bellocq’s Storyville portraits are a series of photographic portraits of sex workers in New Orleans red-light district, circa 1912, rediscovered (& reproduced) by Lee Friedlander & exhibited in MOMA in 1970.A key question…
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fallingame digital 4min 58 sec (2013) Synopsis A group of children play on the hillside they appear to participating in a ritual or dance. The illusion almost collapses as the children begin to laugh and their positions falter. The introduction of the masks generates an occult or mythical dimension revealing a darker parallel world. There is…
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VENTILATOR (2016) Ventilator is set in two locations; a derelict ventilation system on a rooftop in the city of Glasgow (where I live and work) and a beach on the Ayrshire coast (where I grew up). This short experimental video comprises of a mixture of animation and filmed work, with the two protagonists- a woman…
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