Anne’s work reached new heights at the beginning of the year with a stunning, commissioned exhibition for the Mills College Art Museum.
With screens set amongst paper rock sculptures, Colvin’s newly commissioned three-channel video installation A Granite Note creates a haunting call and response refrain using abstracted visual and sonic fragments of boats, flowers and pipers that extend and shrink the chasm between time and image.
Installation views.
And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere !
and gie’s a hand o’ thine !
And we’ll tak a right gude-willy waught,
for auld lang syne.
For auld lang syne, my jo,
for auld lang syne,
we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.
–Robert Burns, 1788
Happy New Year!
Just back from our annual trip home to see family, friends and for Anne to do some networking in preparation for her CCA residency in Glasgow this Fall.
This photograph was taken shortly before my father traveled to Los Angeles as a young man with his uncle who had been posted there by the Foreign Office. Also in the frame are my grandparents, my uncle, and my grandfather’s beloved gun dog Tosh.
Thinking about the holidays again – already! Originally posted on Anne’s blog, 12 February 2012:
We spent a wonderful three weeks back in Blighty over Christmas and New Year – from London to Okehampton to Edinburgh to Newton Stewart and Glasgow for the day – visiting our family and friends. Managed to fit in some shows at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, The Dean Gallery, CCA, TATE Modern, Gagosian and Seventeen Gallery but my favorite experience was Martin Creed’s Work No.1059… here is the original post →