Alastair Cook

Alastair Cook | Artist

MSc Architectural Conservation, 2nd Year

alastair.cook@eca.ac.uk

www.alastaircook.com

Alastair work focuses primarily on positive responses to key global social, cultural and environmental issues: he is interested in the moment. Alastair recently spent time among the communities of Sutherland and Caithness; the resulting landscapes open discussion on the brutal effect of human habitation in a stripped, stark and difficult land. His current

solo show, The Land and the Sea, is at The Drill Hall in Dalmeny Street, until 14th August.

Assemble

The WOT proudly presents Assemble, an exhibition of six current students and graduates from Edinburgh College of Art.

George IV Bridge/Victoria Street, Edinburgh

5th of August - 1st September

Alastair Cook

Geri Loup-Nolan

Val McLean

Fraser McQuade

Owen Ramsay

Gerald Smith

Curated by Becky Campbell and Faith Limbrick

Francis Young

Francis Young

BArch (Hons)

Wilhelms Wharf, Berlin

52.31.21N 13.23.13E

Harvesting aquaculture from the fertile waters of Brandenburg and wider continental region, Berlin is at the heart of a rich network of waterways that have a vast untapped potential. Responsive to the harvesting of its waters, the needs of Berliners can be fed sustainably by an unlimited supply of fresh, healthy food. Harvested farm stock is stored in tanks in a state of hibernation and transported by barge from the farms to a central fish market at Wilhelms Wharf. The stock is then euthanised humanely using anesthetic and brought to market as fresh as possible.

In the built environment of Berlin, we find restraint in a framework of legislative limits; within, we predict and nurture the growth of a city. The limits of growth are scarcity and need; scarcity is dissolved through diversity, need is eliminated through sustainability. This project is an exercise in nourishing a city as Wilhelms Wharf aims to connect with a Berlin which matures with a sense of restraint.

Berlin is a hard city of statistics, facts and legislations; Berlin is a soft city of experience, myth and aspirations.

Both are ideals; both are constantly growing.

The limits of growth are imagination and fear.

Joseph Pielichaty

Joseph Pielichaty

BA (Hons) Graphic Design

http://www.josephpielichaty.co.uk/

The Stars Are Made of Ink, 2010

This illustrative piece pulls together all the various drawings and thoughts which are scattered amongst the sketchbooks I kept during my last few weeks as a student in Edinburgh. I wanted to showcase all the individual notes, doodles and contemplations within a new context and remove them from the privacy of my pages. Suddenly the smallest of messages are showcased with a sense of importance, and results in a chaotic scribble of the mind, pieced together like a jigsaw.

Fiona Jarrett

Fiona Jarrett

MA (Hons) Painting

http://www.fionajarrett.com/

My work addresses the ethereal properties of semi precious stones and crystals and tries to communicate their supposed powers or auras. I wish to challenge my audiences’ perceptions of reality and spirituality whilst inducing meditative states and feelings of positivity, happiness and open-mindedness.

David Cass

David Cass

BA (Hons) Painting

http://www.davidcass.co.uk/

As of January this year my work significantly changed. Though I am still drawing inspiration from the same subject matter, my completed articles are on a much smaller scale, and are far less polished than the large-scale abstract paintings I had been creating for the majority of 2009 and beginning of this year. After embarking upon a personal film project in December, I intended my practical work – which held no physical relationship with my film work – to become much more personal, honest and raw. It has now become almost impossible to identify one primary medium within my current practice, which encompasses painting, sculpture, film and writing.

My degree show at ECA this year was an installation of paintings and sculptures composed of found materials: small detailed gouache paintings on found wooden boards, alongside found material sculptures, tied together by a film projection and book of writings. These are the types of works I intend to continue creating: works that I can make on location, that are almost sketches – but that add up to create a large body of work. This display is a small collection of these found materials, aiming to provide an insight into my work.

Magda Boreysza

Magda Boreysza

MFA Animation

http://www.magdaboreysza.com/

On The Line

The WOT proudly presents On the Line, an exhibition of five graduates selected from Edinburgh College of Art's 2010 Degree Show.

On the edge of the next step, each artist uses line for dynamic and intense expression and function in their practice, whether through the use of black marker pen on cardboard, the jutted join of wooden blocks or paper cut to express the form of a building, the gradual build-up of animation or delicate expressions of serenity.

Magda Boreysza - MFA Animation

David Cass - BA (Hons) Painting

Fiona Jarrett - MA (Hons) Painting

Joseph Pielichaty - BA (Hons) Graphic Design

Francis Young - BArch (Hons)

Exhibition running from 1st July - 22nd July

Current Exhibition

The WOT will be installing the next exhibition this weekend.

Arranged by Guest Curator Becky Campbell,

the WOT proudly presents

Emma O'Sullivan

Grazyna Dobrzelecka

Lara MacLeod

Laura Sutherland

Rachael Thomas

Rachel Charter

Becky Campbell

Exhibition from 24th May - 20th June.

Mhairi Naismith

I approached this piece of work with the consideration of form over function- ‘what does the space want to be?’ as opposed to ‘what do we want the space to do?

mhairi.naismith@eca.ac.uk

Ciara Bowles

This has been inspired by the delicacy and intricacy of flowers, and the aesthetic of these I aim to replicate in the piece of work. Abstracted completely by my own drawings and interpretations the necklace has become something different entirely. Each item of work I create is primarily a piece of adornment, but secondarily a piece of art in its own right, to be viewed as an object of beauty on its own.

ciara.bowles@eca.ac.uk

Anine Bosenberg

This object was made for a project called "Menagerie". I found the alien beauty of moths much more interesting than the obvious approach to the topic of a collection of animals; we pay good money to see lions and giraffes, but live in horror of having a small zoo in our own homes.

anine.c.boesenberg@eca.ac.uk

Hazel France & Claire Ferguson

Hazel France

Claire Ferguson

Part of a collaborative body of work. About objects, ideas, connections and decisions.

hazel.france@eca.ac.uk

newradio@hotmail.co.uk

Daniel Hill

A spiral ascent to the summit of Arthur’s Seat with a 30ft long piece of wool.

Daniel Hill

daniel.hill@eca.ac.uk

Charles Young

I was asked to design a fish market which would be located on the seafront at Newhaven. The site is very long and thin and so dictated the shape of the building. The structure is based on that of a boat which has been turned upside-down. The main structure will be made of steel with timber between the steel ribs. The cladding will also be in timber with some areas glazed letting light flood the space below.

charles.young@eca.ac.uk

Student creates windows of opportunity for public!

The WOT in The Edinburgh Evening News

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LIBRARIES, museums and even redundant police boxes will showcase the best work of promising artists in the Capital under an innovative new scheme.

A student from Edinburgh College of Art has set up a project that will see art being brought closer to people who would not usually set foot in an art gallery. The first series of exhibitions will take place in six windows of the Central Library on George IV Bridge, on Friday.

But second-year student Faith Limbrick is hoping to expand her "Window on Talent" project to other public buildings across the city. And she even hopes to be able to use redundant police boxes in future to showcase the work of her peers.

Ms Limbrick, 19, said: "This is about trying to break down barriers between the art school and the public. All of the exhibitions in the college are very insular and only the other students get to see the work. I want to break that down because there are so many exciting things going on at the college.

"The Central Library is such an important place in Edinburgh and there will be a lot of footfall so hopefully this will reach out to people who would not have gone into a gallery before."

Ms Limbrick said she has already had strong interest from students wanting to exhibit their work.

Although the initial exhibitions will not have a theme, she hopes that a future exhibition will have an Edinburgh focus.

And she said that expanding it into more unusual sites in the city would appeal. "There's a police box on the Royal Mile, and various others around Edinburgh, that I think would be great with glass screens around them and art inside."

The project has been set up with financial assistance from the Scottish Institute of Enterprise, while the city council is providing the space at the Central Library at no cost.

Councillor Deidre Brock, the city's culture leader, said: "It's a great idea to display artworks in an unusual and highly-visible setting like this. The pieces will undoubtedly catch many people's attention in this busy central location."

A spokeswoman for the Edinburgh College of Art said: "This is a remarkable achievement by one student to promote to the wider public the work of Edinburgh College of Art students."

THE WOT WANTS YOU

Edinburgh College of Art’s Window on Talent is a new exhibiting space for all students who study at ECA. It provides an opportunity to show your work to a previously untapped public audience. The WOT is located on George IV Bridge and Victoria Street, a prime location in central Edinburgh. If you’re interested in putting some work up at The WOT submissions are received in the form of proposals. For a proposal guide and form please contact Faith at windowontalent@hotmail.com or faith.e.limbrick@eca.ac.uk

The WOT accepts submissions from all disciplines and from all years. We are looking for high quality, eye-catching work to promote ECA as a cutting-edge art and design institution. There will be the added opportunity to sell work through the window as well (The WOT takes 15% commission).

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