tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33219212024-03-07T10:15:40.778-08:00Ann Shaw BlogAnn Shaw -
"I am a writer/artist based in Scotland. After working as a Feature Writer on the Glasgow Herald I went to Glasgow School of Art as a mature student.
Check out my web-site: <a href="http://annshaw.co.uk">annshaw.co.uk </a>"
Contact- <a href="mailto:annshaw@mac.com">annshaw</a>Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.comBlogger392125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-43184234546984748622018-08-29T09:51:00.003-07:002018-08-29T09:52:00.068-07:00Dabbling one's toes in Singularity ( 4 )
Nature
is an expression
of a universal machine
an algorithimic immanence.
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Singularity
We will be
released from the burden
of our
humanity.
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We are
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Singularity
allows the body
to become
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Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-34230881152739661662018-08-24T01:42:00.000-07:002018-08-24T09:00:40.584-07:00Garden of Unearthly Delights
I have started a new project called Garden of Unearthly Delights based on our garden in Scotland .
Began by having a bonfire of old drawings.
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-19891867472659608582018-08-23T05:06:00.002-07:002018-08-24T08:36:20.184-07:00What does it mean to be human?
Can machines create art? these Image were created 50 per cent by a human hand ( mine) and 50 per cent by a machine-half human half machine
Art is moving into totally new territory. Just read this artilce in the New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/20/opinion/what-does-it-mean-to-be-human-dont-ask.html
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“In the end, the object is just a catalyst to a thought,
however big or small, a discussion, debate or whatever it might be.”
Cornelia Parker, artist,sculptor
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Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-321521642881600112018-01-18T11:07:00.001-08:002018-01-18T11:09:07.500-08:00How to rescue a Still Life
Found a very old painting which looked abysmal . I was on the point of throwing it out when I decided to photograph it and push it and through photoshop. Pleasantly surprised by the result.
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-67643525734905916202017-08-14T14:22:00.002-07:002018-02-27T10:06:26.634-08:00Art+machine
Experimenting with ink drawings pushed through Prisma app.
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-66894060509173487992016-03-04T05:31:00.001-08:002016-03-04T05:32:11.337-08:00Body Art - older feet
I am fascinated by the ageing process of the body.
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-77135603920607890192016-02-15T04:53:00.001-08:002016-02-15T04:54:57.617-08:00Boredom and creativity
View from my writing desk - why staring at the mountains might be good for me.
As an artist/writer I have noticed that periods of boredom are
often a prelude to a creative spell.
I have often suspected this and have learnt not to be afraid
of it.
Now its official.
When we are bored we are forced to think outside the box, do
something different.
Some research at the University of Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-50486813680930761832015-10-16T08:45:00.003-07:002015-10-16T08:45:50.967-07:00Mud glorious mud
Our local paper, the Stirling Observer, carried this photo I took ( or rather a member of staff at the Macrobert took it for me on my iPhone).
After getting no coverage in this paper of my solo exhibition in Dunblane museum last month I was beginning to think it would be impossible to get any arts coverage, something I know most artists are forever comaplaining about.
So, what's the secret? to Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-41856498705009334562015-10-08T08:11:00.000-07:002015-10-08T08:11:21.244-07:00Censorship of the arts
Political correctness gone mad! I’ve been asked by the
Macrobert arts centre in Stirling to remove a hashtag because it might reflect
badly on them. It refers to a cartoon drawn by a member of my mud workshop of
Cameron and a pig.
Are they devoid of a sense of humour? Whatever happened to
artistic freedom of expression?
What’s more this workshop forms part of Luminate Scotland’s
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-64225809243351735982015-10-07T09:41:00.002-07:002015-10-07T09:43:34.029-07:00Mud workshop - part of Luminate Festival
We had a very successful mud workshop yesterday in the Macrobert Arts centre, part of the annual Luminate- Scotland's Creative Ageing Festival.
I must sdmit that I was very worried that nobody would turn up because the day before the event only two people had registered! however I knew several had said they were coming.
We created a scroll and a mass of mud paintings- everyone loved the Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-48412880092862404922015-09-21T15:04:00.000-07:002015-09-21T15:04:16.589-07:00"Of the Earth"
Well, I have been so busy with my exhibition, "Of the Earth" in Dunblane museum that I have not had time to update this diary.
We had a very good launch night with lots of people including the dancers who took part in my video:
"Time Passing".
(link to YouTube)
At one stage someone said there were more dancers than artists there!
Having this solo exhibition has been a steep leanring curveAnn Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-3892529868693999382015-08-24T15:10:00.002-07:002015-08-24T15:10:34.946-07:00Poster for exhibition
"The Journey"
digital print
Busy getting ready for my solo exhibition in Dunblane museum next week. Decided to use this image for the poster. Thankfully so much can be done online these days. How on earth did we manage without the internet.
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-13560113269913115042015-08-05T04:23:00.003-07:002015-08-05T09:17:57.569-07:00Cuba and Tania Bruguera
Photo: Hemingway and Castro in Cuba*
I was interested to receive from David Harding the book,
which he wrote in collaboration with Ross Birrell and Douglas Gordon “You like
this garden?”
It was a gift in return for my giving him a copy of PaolozziRevealed.
His work in Cuba brought back my own experience of the
country. On a brief visit I shot some
video footage, which Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-54830114330783159092015-07-29T14:50:00.002-07:002015-07-29T14:50:42.833-07:00Book launch- Paolozzi Revealed
Such a lot has happened since I last posted that I don't
know where to start.
Well, here goes.
My book , Paolozzi Revealed, has been published by Kennedy & Boyd, a highly respected Scottish publishing company.
The launch party was held in the &Collective gallery in Bridge of Allan, something I am very grateful for.
To my surprise and delight Geraldine Prince and Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-35176045287965657732015-04-03T14:14:00.002-07:002015-04-03T14:23:14.095-07:00SelfiesHad my hair cut today so I thought I would take a selfie using Apple’s Photo Booth. Here is a sample. It raises the hoary old question : what is real and what isn’t. Talking of selfies did you know there is a museum in the Philippines dedicated to selfies? And here is a Twitter stream all about selfies in museums.
I had my hair cut today so I thought I would
take a selfie using Apple’s Photo Booth.
Alien
Here is a sample.
It raises the hoary old question : what is
real and what isn’t.
Talking of selfies did you know there is a
museum in the Philippines dedicated to selfies?
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Over to Delta Studios for three hours Life
Drawing.
We had a male model, John, with a suntan you could die for- result of six
weeks in Australia.
As a mature model now retired from his professional life he has discovered there is a great demand in Scotland for models so he has got himself a new career modelling for colleges ( those that still teach it), art clubs Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-59952173078930390482015-04-03T04:35:00.002-07:002015-04-03T04:36:59.989-07:00New currency for Scotland-Queen Nicola the First
The Bank of Scotland issued yesterday a limited edition of
the new currency, the merk, along with the smaller coin, the bawbee.
Professor
Gavin McTaggart, a former chief economist at the Scotland Office, welcomes the
re-introduction of the merk and the bawbee saying it helps to
re-establish Scottish identity by reverting to the original coinage used in the
16th century.
In
factAnn Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-8217588230050905192015-03-30T10:04:00.001-07:002015-03-30T10:24:11.596-07:00Symmetry- whelk
I collected this giant whelk in the Caribbean some time ago hoping
that one-day I could use it in some photographic project.
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Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-284036374757735412015-03-26T06:09:00.002-07:002015-03-26T06:11:24.598-07:00V & A travelling gallery comes to Stirling
The future is digital.
Well, we all know this but it
still comes as a jolt when confronted with some of the latest technologies used
in the creation of art.
jewellery designed by Lynne Maclachlan using computer software and 3Dprinting.
Today the Design in Motion
exhibition, a collaboration between the V&A museum
and the Travelling
Gallery came to Stirling.
Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-34385257269807205672015-03-08T12:41:00.001-07:002015-03-08T12:41:05.516-07:00How to avoid writing...
Faced with a blank sheet of paper, or a computer screen these days, I go through a whole series of displacement activities to avoid the inevitable writing.Well, this morning I began the task of turning another of my blogs into a book but first there was a whole series of excuses to avoid starting and it culminated in rearranging some flowers on the kitchen table into Ann Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04102417373643130226noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3321921.post-26880998380548632632015-03-01T13:19:00.001-08:002015-03-01T13:19:32.870-08:00Paolozzi book
This is finished! well, hopefully all the loose ends are now tied up and the book is almost ready for publication.
Delighted to see that the book will contain lots of my photographs, and these were taken in the pre-digital age .
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