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Ian Hamilton Finlay

Posted on April 27, 2012 by Catrìona

“Common to all of Finlay’s diverse production is the inscription of language – words, invented or borrowed phrases and other semiotic devices – onto real objects and thus into the world. That language inhabits, for Finlay, a material or real … Continue reading →

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Inscribables -Shauna McMullan

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Catrìona

http://www.nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk/Services/A-Z/ArtsCommittee/CommissionedPublicArtProjects/MarkingSpace/Pages/Inscribables.aspx ”Taking as a starting point the residents’ dining tables, from the old Royal Infirmary, Mcmullan has focused on the notion of displacement. At the end of their term of residence, clinicians, scientists and scholars (including the celebrated Louis Pasteur, … Continue reading →

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Jenny Holzer

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Catrìona

http://www.jennyholzer.com/list.php “Holzer belongs to the feminist branch of a generation of artists that emerged around 1980, looking for new ways to make narrative or commentary an implicit part of visual objects. Her contemporaries include Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Sarah Charlesworth, and … Continue reading →

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