It was an absolute delight to exhibit ‘Future Reliquary’ at The Saatchi in September as part of The British Art Fair. She could be found, with a wall to herself, on the top floor of the gallery in the DIGITALISM section. The most exciting thing for me was a new collaboration with the Augmented Reality artist Max Čelar.
Max Created an Augmented Reality layer to the sculpture, this could be viewed through a phone app which Max helped to develop, Meadow. You can see a screen video of his creation below. Max developed my ideas around what the medieval reliquaries of the past would be holding sacred in a future without our biodiversity and wild spaces. He created an alternative world within the heart of the sculpture. The sculpture is cast from White Marble Jesmonite and is available in an edition of 5. This edition with the Augmented Reality included is £7,700. It is magical and wonderful and got a lot of love and good reviews at the Saatchi.
I am currently working on a second sculpture that will be wearing goggles, and perhaps a third with a mask over her mouth. You get the idea.
Next year I will be exhibiting a different version of this one and another of the triptych within the Scottish Society of Artists Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy Gallery on Edinburgh’s Princes Street. This time the sculptures will contain a Pepper’s Ghost illusion. This is a Victorian optical illusion, I love the time travelling nature of these works which reference medieval and classical time periods, the early 1900s and the far distant future.
The two sculptures will form an installation which will also comprise fired, porcelain elements and painting on the walls. The exhibition will take place at the Royal Scottish Academy, The Mound, Edinburgh EH1 2EL from 14 February – 10 March 2027.
I will be at the RSA earlier in 2027 with ‘The Stoic’, an oil and resin painting on aluminium. This has been selected by Visual Arts Scotland for their annual exhibition which runs through January 2027.
I called her The Stoic partly because she has the gaze of a philosopher and the air of a mystic but mainly because I wrestled with this one for over a year and a half so needed to exercise a great deal of stoicism to finish it.
Thank you for your continuing support for my practice, I always love to hear your thoughts on the work I make.
