This year it features a total of 10 artists- 2 of them worked collaboratively - who have all been Turner Prize nominees and 2 became winners of the prestigious award.
Christine Borland and Brody Condon.
These pieces are 'excerpts' from a larger circular sculpture circles of focus. There is a connection to Orkney within this piece. It is constructed using Orkney clay, goose fat, sand and animal hair.
The idea behind this piece is that the body could be a site of ambiguity, imagination and expression. They clay is an experimental surface, made to leave indelible marks on the skin called 'hypostasis'. Something which i had only learnt about today!
Jim Lambie. Metal box (blinded by the light) Lambie's Metal Box wall based sculptures are inspired by posters which, when they got wet, the corners would curl up.
Ian Hamilton Finlay The Boats inseparable ripples
Again another connection to Orkney as he was brought up here. This is an example of his concrete poetry commonly associated with him.
Davidshrigley Bone This is a bit different to the usual drawings most associated with him.
A film of an eye, encircled in smoky-black kohl, slowly opening and closing; and the exhaling, sustained voice of singer Rufus Wainwright, accompanied by piano, whose anthem to a beloved cascades in complementary and dissonant harmonics around the space. Darkness and light, tragedy and the the salvation through redemptive live are the ideas and emotions encountered here as the eye hypnotically pulls you into it's welling. In the face of death and rebirth, the eye remains a steady witness.
Martin Boyce Ventilation grills (punching through the clouds)
These were made after 9/11 so take on a different more troubled meaning to modern living contrasting to Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe an architect who expressed great optimism to the 'new' skyscraper idea.
Lucy Skaer 15.04.13 - 21.04.13
These prints are made from original printing plates used to print the front page of the Guardian newspaper. The title refers to the dates that the plates were saved by the newspaper. The plates were partially deleted using chemicals and were printed by the artist on a commercial litho press. Within this week the Boston bombings happened and Margaret Thatchers funeral. Skaers work investigates the way we understand and relate to objects and images.
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