Clint Enns

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I loved this experimental film done by clint enns. He gathered discarded film footage to put this piece together. The music and the whole film generally makes my mind wonder and i love the way the films motion is so slow and soft. It's kind of like your trying to remember what a place looks like but it crumbles away before you can get the whole picture in your head. Would love to do a similar experimentation in the future.

Art Installation, Portobello Beach, Musselburgh

Whilst out for a jog yesterday I came accross an art installation at the end of portobello beach. I loved this so much, the fact the slot machines were still working inviting the public to interact. I went back down to get my own photographs when the sun was setting in the hope to catch the shadows of each slot machine in the sand and to capture the brightly coloured lights from each machine.

In the garden

There isn't really any purpose for this I just had a wee play with my camera in the garden and pretty much took some pictures of the things that caught my attention.

Claire Morgan, Motion Sculptures

After viewing the degree show there was a sculpture students work which stood out for me, her piece was of knitted wombs hanging from the ceiling but looked as though they were in motion. I wish I got a picture of this artwork but I vaguely remember it being about family genes.

Anyway after seeing this artists work below by Claire Morgan I realised where this sculpture student must have got her inspiration from. These sculpture pieces are amazing, at first glance the objects look as though they are in motion especially the strawberry blanket which has been carefully set up to look as though the strawberry's are almost falling to the ground gracefully. The artist uses mainly natural materials to make her work, things like strawberry's, fruit and flowers attached to nylon thread. It is understandable how this artist achieved a first class degree whilst studying at university.

Here are some of the images I took at the Gray's Degree show. I absolutely loved the ball of mice, the artist has chose a not so nice theme of dead rodents but has captured their form beautifully. After speaking to the artist briefly she explained how her idea came about by her pet cat bringing home dead mice.

The subway train caught my eye by the interesting viewpoint, some of the other paintings were painted as if looking threw a fish eye lens and this is like a mirrors reflection. Finally the last three paintings..ones which made you feel strange when viewing. I don't know why but i felt as though I was going to fall over, maybe because of the overlapping and distorted parts of the painting, im not really sure. The paintings were done well but I was definitely squinting and confused with what was going on, but I guess that's the whole point.

Excellent degree show and the fourth year painters and sculptors were definitely my favourites, wish i got some more pictures taken!

ECA Degree show

This picture is difficult to see but basically it was lots of peeled bark on board with varnish and paint applied ontop.

Throughout June I visited ECA (Edinburgh College of Art), Duncan of Jordanstone, and Gray's school of art's degree shows. Unfortunately i missed glasgow's degree show and i'm pretty gutted about that as i heard it was really good.

It was great seeing the talent from each art school and it just gets me excited for fourth year although i don't want it to come too soon! ECA and Gray's shows were both amazing, the type of work that really made you go wow. Dundee's was good although it didn't have that wow factor edinburgh and aberdeen's shows did.

Here are some of the pictures I took on my phone of my favourite pieces from ECA's degree show...

Johan Grimonprez Exhibition

I went to see Johan Grimonprez's exhibiton at the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh at the beginning of the month. This artist is known for his films and his most well known pieces are 'Double Take' and 'Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y' a film collage about airoplane hijackings which include cartoons and propaganda films. I quite liked his piece 'Double Take', which is a sequel to his film 'Looking for alfred'. At first i was a little confused as to what was going on when i first viewed 'Double Take' as the film kept jumping from documentary footage to film. I soon clocked on that the film was about and by Alfred Hitchcock with TV stories and reports from the cold war. I feel asthough the only reason i enjoyed this piece was because i am a fan of Alfred Hitchcock and found his doppleganger quite amusing.

The exhibition on a whole was interesting and although his videos lasted up to 90 minutes, you found yourself not being able to leave your seat. For me i would probably rate it 3/5..