Place: The Steeple, 67 High Street, Newburgh, Fife, KY14 6AH
Cost: 8 pounds
Keep creative over the festive season and jolly to Fife for an afternoon of creative life-drawing, colour splashing and experimenting. Figurative artists in residency, Mira and Marcin (Naked Aye Art collective) warmly invite you to join their open-to-all (untutored) life drawing event at The Steeple in Fife, on 29th December. Two models will be sitting for us over the course of the afternoon, one male and one female (who is currently pregnant).
Drawing boards, easels, nibbles, drinks and tunes will be provided. Feel free to invite friends & newbies.
To book a place or if you have any questions, please contact mira.knoche@hotmail.co.uk or artistamarcinkrupa@gmail.com.
Andrea recently had the pleasure of chatting to Gavin Glover, to discuss his upcoming work he will be exhibiting at Naked Aye Art’s next show.
You describe yourself as puppeteer, actor, director, maker and artist. What is your favourite role?
I don’t know, I’ve done a lot of puppetry and recently a lot of life drawing and I quite like directing, but I like all of it really.
How did you first get involved with puppets? What was their appeal?
I was living in London at the time near a puppet theatre called the Little Angel Theatre. I hadn’t really thought about puppets, I just thought it was just for kids. Then I got a job there by chance because someone was sick and in a couple of weeks I started to think differently about puppetry. Even though it’s traditionally for kids, I thought if I could tweak it and subvert it a bit I could discover something really interesting for an adult audience. It fired up my imagination. I had previously been making masks and working in visual theatre so it’s all connected.
Can you tell me a little more about the process of making a puppet?
I approach it from two different angles. Either it is commission, someone says I want this so I do drawings and work out how it’s going to be made. The other way is I just make it, and I don’t really know how it’s going to end up. It’s almost like creating a sculpture that moves, because it’s got arms and limbs.
They all have the same rules, they have to be strong internally but be flexible and light enough so they can be manhandled and won’t fall to pieces basically. Once you’ve cracked the structure of it you can work on what it actually looks like.
Would you say it’s more of a planned or spontaneous process?
You can make a figure out of screwed up newspaper and tape and in a few minutes if you want or you can spend weeks hand sewing and twiddling about making costumes and working on loads of details that the audience won’t ever see.
You’re showing a piece of micro cinema theatre at Naked Aye this year, can you tell me a little more about that?
It’s a technique that I’m experimenting with at the moment using simple video cameras and CCTV cameras. It’s kind of old analogue style and we mix what we film live with a video mixer. That’s projected but there is other stuff going on stage at the same time, like us creating the film and a few other things so the audience watch it all. There is a narrative. I also collect people’s 2nd hand stories, these are personal stories that have been remembered and recounted by someone else. I’m still trying it out so I’m happy to have some audience feedback after.
What do you find most rewarding about your work?
The reaction from the audience.
What’s the most memorable reaction you’ve had to your work?
It’s people coming up and saying they’ve cried during a show. They’ve found an empathy for the characters on the stage. That’s kind of amazing and humbling, that you can take someone far far away on an emotional journey just with an image that you have created on stage.
What are your goals for this year?
I want to push the micro cinema theatre ideas further, maybe to create a show. I’m teaching it at some workshops in Spain, Italy and Norwich this year.
The Naked Aye Art Collective announces a two-week exhibition and
events programme exploring the figure in art.
You are warmly invited to join us for a drink on Saturday, 2nd April 7-10pm, on our exhibition Opening Night.
What’s the colour of your shadow, the form of your fear? What are the juicy qualities of nightmares and dark fantasies?
Naked Aye Art are returning this spring to present ‘Creep Me Oot’, a free multi-arts exhibition that runs daily at Gallery 1, St Margaret’s House in Edinburgh, from 2nd to 16th April.
The not for profit collective has invited 35 emerging and established artists from a diverse range of creative paths to showcase works that include painting, performance, drawing, sculpture, photography, film, installation, video art and soundscape.
Visual artists include Alan McGowan, Fee Scroggie, Leigh Chorlton, Mary Trodden, Alan Chapman, Mel Roy and Marcin Krupa amongst others.
The show will also be accompanied by a sparkling programme of events. The free opening night on Saturday, 2nd April (7 – 10pm) involves physical theatre, contemporary dance (Nerea Gurrutxaga), interactive live art experiments, micro-cinema and a live music set by Glasgow’s celebrated newcomer garage rock band Future Glue. The after party will take place at Leith bar Woodland Creatures with Glasgow based DJ collective, The Mojotronics Funk Machine, bringing funk to the dance floor from 10pm to 1am (free entry).
All the Young Nudes are hosting two theatrical life drawing sessions at the gallery on Thursday evenings, 7th and 14th April (7-9pm). These are open to all, at any level and you can book your place online via EventBrite or turn up on the night.
Shivers is a free night event on Saturday 9th April (7-10pm), co-curated by poet Kevin Cadwallendar, film maker Paul Maguire and Naked Aye, featuring spoken word acts, short films, live music and performance.
The theme of the overall programme is focused around the human figure and invites people to explore creative ventures into the realms of the eerie and unsettling, the weird and wonderful dynamics of the abject. At a time of growing populism, uprooting migration and international tension, the show’s aim is to tune in and playfully bring to the fore the darkness inside each of us – all too often projected outward onto otherness, unquestioned.
Naked Aye aim to provide a platform for the vibrant resurgence in figurative art and warmly invite audiences to turn into participants, bringing them into creative dialogue with exhibiting and performing artists.
Details
The show runs from 2nd – 16th April at St Margaret’s House, Gallery 1, 3rd floor, 151 London Road, Edinburgh. For more information please contact nakedayeart@gmail.com.
Sat 2nd Apr – Opening Night: An eclectic night of deliciously unsettling live performances (7-10pm at Gallery 1, St Margaret’s House), and After-Party with Mojotronics Funk Machine (10pm till late at Woodland Creatures)
Andrea recently spoke with Jamie Irvine and Kyle Noble, to discuss their upcoming artwork that they will be exhibiting at Naked Aye Art this April.
Jamie Irvine and Kyle Noble are a duo, who each input their own styles and reactions to the visual challenges set by the other, creating an organic and ever evolving narrative.
The Engagement – Irvine and Noble
What are you showcasing at Naked Aye Art this year?
J: Kyle is away so we didn’t get the chance to do something new so we’ve had to go through our back catalogue of work and see what fits. I guess we had to go through it with a fine toothcomb and match this creepy theme which I think we’ve done. We picked some creepy somethings anyway.
K: Oh yeah, they definitely fit like a glove. We chose images which clearly fit the brief. Some of our work is surreal and wacky, and light-hearted to a degree, but most of our work is pretty subversive and dark. We are going to make them bigger for this show, they are going to be scaled up, so they will hopefully have the impact of being a big wall drawing almost, won’t they?
J: Yes I hope so. It should be cool. We’ve done big drawings before but we’ve never blown our drawings up to this scale, so it will be interesting to see how they look. We don’t know how they are going to turn out. That’s something exciting for us, to see what we end up with.
What mediums do you use?
K: So what we always use are pens and paper. It’s those tools and then the medium of our shared mind, the process of us being together, working together, drawing and sharing in the experience of making. Through all of this, coming up with something original, unplanned and very spontaneous. There’s a sense being closer to the immediate act of image making .
J: In Kyle and I’s individual practices, we each make highly detailed work. Spending a while on a particular image for a period of time can be quite clinical, and a sterile environment, whereas this can be quite chaotic and with pens all over the table. You get to relax a bit more and not be as precious with an image. I mean, I think it still holds the same merit as what we do in our own work, but the more spontaneous, free flowing style, that we have kind of adopted, or been adopted by works well and great imagery has come out of it. And yes we always work with pens, their marks strong and immediate, if we could get some kind of deal with Staedtler for their 0.05 pens that would be really good because that’s what we use. We could be like the face of Staedtler. Maybe from this we will hit the big time!
K: Yeah and adverts for Staedtler.
J: Yeah videos, billboards and the sides of buses.
K: Oh for sure, we might be the Staedtler gurus…
What’s it like working with each other?
J: He’s a nightmare! Horrible!
Laughter
K: We bring out the worst in each other.
J: That’s true. I guess we became friends at university through our art. We didn’t meet and become friends through just chatting to each other. It was actually our tutor Dr Norman Shaw who said to each of us ‘you should go and see this guy and his work at his studio’. We didn’t know each other. We met each other as artwork first. It think the first time I went to your studio Kyle, you weren’t even there and it was just like walking into somewhere where a bomb had gone off.
Laughter
J: Such a mess. I mean I started wearing gloves when I was drawing that’s how clean I wanted to be but this place was just like paint all over the walls, paint on the floor. I mean everything had something painted on it. Everything that he was doing was full colour and everything that I was doing was monochrome. I was like, why has he told me to go and check out what this guy is doing? It is nothing like what I am doing! Then I realised there were underlying similar inquiries. Now we are kind of like creative partners. Partners first, then friends after which is quite unusual.
K: Yeah at the time I was into making chance based paint patterns and trying to find mirrors into my mind through hallucinating over the suggestive forms and marks in the paint. Jamie was exploring deeply his mark making through automatic drawing, his mind would kind of fall out through pin sized pen work. Something along those lines drove us together and we started drawing together eventually. At the start I kind of felt that I was stepping on Jamie’s territory but of course it was all cool. We went to Amsterdam, didn’t we? That’s where it all kind of began. You got that travel award.
J: I don’t like to brag about it. I got a travel award to go to Amsterdam and Kyle came with me, we did a lot of drawing there.
K: That’s where the drawing started.
J: Did it? Yeah that’s where the drawing started. Yeah, and it was good there, it was very relaxed and gave us a platform where we could draw together without time based distractions. It was almost like a little drawing holiday.
K: Usually when we are working together it’s like we are sharing a kind of journey into madness for a period of time. Any suggestions Jamie makes with a pen, I will elaborate on which in turn are developed by Jamie. We kind of go into this tunnel which in many ways is quite child like. It’s very spontaneous and very free, we’re not really thinking of the after effects of what it is we’ve made. When I’m drawing on my own I would maybe work for half an hour and then start to slow down, but when we’re together and we’re sharing this vision, it has a real pace to it and drives itself forwards.
Norman’s Harvest – Irvine and Noble
How has your style changed over the years?
K: It’s become more detailed hasn’t it?
J: Yeah, we also understand what each other motives are and now have a lot of imagery we can reference as part of our own visual language, we have recurring characters and scenarios that we like to pull out of the old dusty hat. Yeah, it’s become more detailed. I guess the works have become more graphic but sometimes we look back at the old things and there are similarities there. Our work together has evolved, it’s got better as we’ve kind of grown together.
K: Significant changes to the way we worked happened after art school, l went back to Aberdeenshire, and Jamie went back to Fife, we wanted to continue our work and defy the distance, so we started posting drawings to each other, in fact we posted two sketchbooks backwards and forwards. Later I went off to Taiwan for a year and Jamie was living in Glasgow at that time, again we bridged the distance, this time across the world. I think that’s when more detail and rendering of surfaces came up and some more complex imagery. Currently we try and have some pieces that we work on individually and when we meet up we exchange them and have a good session of making new work there and then.
What do you think the key elements are in creating a good composition?
J: If we had the answer we would probably be selling it.
K: I would say, to me, looking back at all our works we have done there’s been an element of simplicity there and a kind of symbolic element too. For me, that makes them successful, instantly connecting work. However, I also do the kind of sprawling, endless mind patterns that come out. My statement on that is sometimes it just happens. It’s just a strong simple to read message really. What would you say?
J: Yeah I like that. It’s hard to say really. I don’t think there is really a set rule because everyone would do it. It’s hard to tell sometimes, you come out and think yeah that’s great but I guess it’s just an opinion and what people decide is good.
K: It kind of like a visceral connection to the image it’s like a childhood response or something. It can be a really simple image or flash of an image and they’ll know or not. I don’t know, like it activates something deeper inside me.
Andrea recently had the pleasure of chatting to Tessa Berring, to discuss her upcoming work she will be exhibiting at Naked Aye Art’s next show.
Based in Edinburgh, Tessa is a creative whose work has featured at the Embassy Gallery and the Scottish Poet’s Library.
I was wondering if you tell me a little about what you are or planning to showcase at Naked Aye this year?
I am showing some collages and doll sculptures based on anatomical woodcuts.
Is there any particular themes you pursue in your work?
Naked Aye is all about the figure, and what I find most interesting about the fifteenth and sixteenth century anatomical drawings are that scientific anatomical awareness is still in its infancy. Drawings from that time blend science with imagination and decorative imagery. I like the blurring of these disciplines.
What is your creative process like?
It often starts with an image, or a piece of text that somehow captures my attention. I make work quite quickly, it sometimes feels like the process of trying to remember a dream when you have just woken up. You need to do it immediately or the image vanishes! I always feel my most successful work, or the work that I feel happiest with, is work that has a lightness about it – a quality of something just materialised.
Is there a particular medium you prefer to use in your work?
I love paper. And I love sewing – and sewing onto paper. Some of the pieces in Naked Aye are fabric based dolls, but paper is my favourite material to work with.
When did you consider yourself an artist?
I find I flit in and out of considering myself an artist. Sometimes I prefer the term ‘maker’, as I have always considered myself someone who makes things. I suppose I feel like an artist when I feel fully engaged in a creative project, and when I know there is something I absolutely have to make right there and then and nothing will stop me!
What’s the best advice you’ve ever been given?
Do small things as if they were great things.
If you could have any artwork in the world what would you most love to have?
Oh my. I would love to play with Alexander Calders’ Circus.
What are you most looking forward to at Naked Aye this year?
I am looking forward to meeting up with all the other artists and seeing the responses to the Creep Me Oot theme. The energy behind this show has been wonderful to feel part of. I hope do call in and do some life drawing too.
We are looking to recruit a small number of people to assist the core team of volunteers with the running and production of the exhibition.
If you would like to be involved in this exciting project, please reply with a CV and cover note detailing your area/s of interest.
What we can offer our volunteers:
The organisers are not working for profit and receive zero public funding, with such a small budget unfortunately we are unable to cover volunteer’s expenses.
However we can provide real work experience, references, and a great opportunity to be involved in an exciting two week event. Volunteers will also get the opportunity to make friends and connections, gain valuable practical experience in the production of a multi form art exhibition, and help to promote artists based in Scotland. We hope our volunteers will continue with us on the journey to produce future shows and events going forward.
We require volunteers to assist in the following area
1.Events Team and Opening Night – March – early April
We are looking for candidates to help run the opening night and our second event evening. We are looking for outgoing and enthusiastic people to assist with performers and artist liaison, co-ordination and communications with performers and team, assist with set up of the events, sound, visuals and the bar, and be involved with smooth running of the evening, working with the performance co-ordinators and curators of the show.
2. Invigilation – April 2nd – 16th
We are looking for volunteers to assist with invigilating the gallery. Opening hours are likely to be between 10am – 6pm daily, and you will be responsible for dealing with any sales, and payment queries, with full training provided.
And…
All volunteers would be asked to attend a couple of meetings with the core team in the run up to the project, and have regular communications with them. We are looking for reliable and dependable candidates who can work well within a group setting.
Enthusiasm and commitment is crucial, and we look forward to making lasting partnerships with our volunteers. This is our third exhibition and we aim to produce more.
Andrea recently had the pleasure of chatting to Mary Trodden and Fee Scroggie, to discuss their upcoming work they will be exhibiting at Naked Aye Art’s next show.
Based in Edinburgh, they were both recently part of Out of Sight, a group exhibition of 12 artists. Their works were an exploration of the realms of instinct, paradox and dreams, not too far from the Creep Me Oot theme of the latest Naked Aye exhibition.
What are you showcasing at Naked Aye Art this year?
M: For Naked Aye Art, I am planning on showing paintings from a series that I made after I came back from Prague. When I was in Prague I saw an exhibition of symbolist art, and a lot of the paintings were about how technology meets nature, so it’s quite kind of satirical. One of the paintings was a photo of a motorcar driving down a road in the dark, and then there was a couple of fawns come up (half man, half goat) in the road, so it’s like this collision of culture and new technology. In the same place there was an exhibition of medieval Christian art, and a series of paintings on the advent of Jesus. There was actually twelve in the series so I did five. They all include a significant part of the story of Jesus’s birth and tribulation, but really they’re not of him as a person. In mine it’s about psychological development. All the paintings are stages of psychological development. They’re all oil painting.
The Annunciation – Mary Trodden
F: Are they all the same scale?
M: Yeah they’re all the same size. I did them all together one after the other. I really like, sort of graphic drawings, so the way I draw is very linear and geometric. The way I paint is kind of illustrative I would say, whereas Fee is always in a fight with the paint, and I am kind of constructive.
F: You have more precision. It’s just a totally different way of approaching it. I have to completely destroy mine constantly, and Mary is always building it up.
What are you planning to do Fee?
F: I have a painting of this strange shimmering woman appearing out of the splatter of paint mess. I always like to produce new work for shows which can sometimes be a bit tricky because you can end up working right up to the last minute and then you don’t have time to reflect on them.
There is something about this show because it’s about creepiness and darkness and my work is naturally a bit creepy. The fact that I’ve got an excuse to ramp that up makes me very happy and excited. I normally work flat on the floor, where I like my paints to be really drippy and really messy. Then I make a mess pull out the image. If the image comes out too far I destroy it again and pull it back out again and destroy it again. Some people might not see an image at all, they might see something completely different but I like ambiguity. It’s a strange balance between illusion, and not too much of an illusion.
I like to make people to work to see it.
Fee Scroggie
What mediums do you use?
F: I like to use, because of what I’m talking about in my work, quite natural mediums. I like to use natural pigments. Equally I do use readymade oil paint, because it’s lovely and creamy and it feels delicious. I’m very excited as I got a melting wax pot for Christmas, so I can start bringing in beeswax because that’s a great binder for pigments and a great ancient way of doing things. I’m really interested in materials so I like to bring in things like sand, chalk, dust, dirt and all those sorts of things. I’m looking forward to do more with natural material.
What would be your dream project?
M: Well I’m actually doing my dream project the now. I’m working with friends and exhibiting work with friends. I think art is like your life and it comes out of influences in your life. I sometimes forget about things like that, but when I’m in situations like something like this, I realise how lucky I am.
How has your practice changed over time since art school to now?
M: It’s brilliant coming out of college because it trains you, and now I’m good. I’ve got a regular pattern and studio. I’ve always being involved in making art, I just feel that I am properly an artist.
F: You have to earn it though, don’t you? You can say you’re an artist but if you haven’t done anything for two years, then you can’t call yourself an artist. You’ve got to be actively working, once you’re climbing the mountain, and then you can call yourself an artist. It’s hard graft no matter how talented you are. It’s amazing I didn’t realise that for quite a long time, I thought I could pull off something. It does maybe look excellent for maybe a month, but if you look at it for two months there’s maybe nothing it that.
M: It’s a weird thing for me because I think you have to have suffered a blow. I always knew I was an artist, and I knew I could go out and make things happen.
There is potential to control your own career.
Have you ever had a really memorable response to your artwork?
F: Where someone was physically sick?
Laughter
Good or bad?
F: I had quite a memorable response to my degree show, where you get comments and an awful lot of people left comments. I was looking back through it a year ago and people left comments like; what happened to you, you need help? A lot of people even asked if I had ever thought about Jesus. There was a lot of people that heartfelt genuinely felt that I was a really troubled lass. The work was quite dark and it was about dysfunctional love. It was dark, and I put out all my sketchbooks for people to look at. There was a lot of these horrible mono prints and strange clothing that I had made myself, to keep people away from myself. It was very sort of prickly kind of work, but I thought it had a really good black humour to it, and I thought it was quite tongue-in-cheek.
M: Yeah, definitely
F: Yeah it was dark but humorously dark. I made things like sweeties with wasps and nails in it and voodoo dolls that could be touched with gloves with razor on them. All these daft things. It was dark but humorously dark.
Fee and Mary’s work will be on show at Naked Aye, Creep Me Oot, the exhibition runs from the 2nd – 16th April 2016, at St Margaret’s House.
For more information on Fee and Mary’s work please visit:
Naked Aye 2016 – Call for Volunteers – Updated February 21st 2016
Off the back of our successful two week exhibition and programme of events last year, we are putting together a new two week exhibition in early April 2016.
We are looking to recruit a small number of people to assist the core team of volunteers with the running and production of the exhibition. There are specific roles on offer, and we are looking for dedicated team members who can take ownership of these tasks. All volunteers should be able to both work well within a team environment, and independently where required.
If you would like to be involved in this exciting project, please reply with a CV and cover note detailing your area/s of interest.
What we can offer our volunteers:
The organisers are not working for profit and receive zero public funding, with such a small budget unfortunately we are unable to cover volunteer’s expenses.
However we can provide real work experience, references, and a great opportunity to be involved in an exciting two week event. Volunteers will also get the opportunity to make friends and connections, gain valuable practical experience in the production of a multi form art exhibition, and help to promote artists based in Scotland. We hope our volunteers will continue with us on the journey to produce future shows and events going forward.
We require volunteers to assist in the following areas:
Graphic Design – March – April
To work with core team in developing e-flyers and images for social media, web and projection. Working with the core team you will help us develop our visual communications. Applicants must have good Photoshop skills, a flair for design, and be able to produce files ready for publication. We wish to encourage applicants who can build on existing experience, or are looking to gain some practical experience. The successful candidates will have a high level of creative freedom on these projects.
Hanging and Take Down – 26th March – 2nd April and 17th/18th April
We are looking for a number people to help us hang the exhibition, and take down the show. Ideally you will have experience in this area, however candidates with good practical skills who can work under the direction of the curators are very welcome to apply. You will gain experience in hanging and dealing with a variety of works. You do not need to be available during the whole of the hang but ideally need to be able to commit to a whole day (minimum).
Events Team and Opening Night – March – early April
We are looking for candidates to help run the opening night and our second event evening. We are looking for outgoing and enthusiastic people to assist with performers and artist liaison, co-ordination and communications with performers and team, assist with set up of the events, sound, visuals and the bar, and be involved with smooth running of the evening, working with the performance co-ordinators and curators of the show.
Invigilation – April 2nd – 17th
We are looking for volunteers to assist with invigilating the gallery. Opening hours are likely to be between 10am – 6pm daily, and you will be responsible for dealing with any sales, and payment queries, with full training provided.
Driving, distribution and logistics – March – Mid April
We require volunteers to assist us with a small but varied number of tasks which may include delivery of equipment, purchasing of equipment and supplies for events, delivery of artworks and other logistical tasks. We are also looking for volunteers to assist the core team with distribution of flyers and posters for the show.
And finally…
All volunteers would be asked to attend a couple of meetings with the core team in the run up to the project, and have regular communications with them. We are looking for reliable and dependable candidates who can work well within a group setting.
Enthusiasm and commitment is crucial, and we look forward to making lasting partnerships with our volunteers. This is our third exhibition and we aim to produce more.
Off the back of our successful two week exhibition and programme of events last year, we are putting together a new two week exhibition in early April 2016.
We are looking to recruit a number of people to assist the core team of volunteers with the running and production of the exhibition. There are specific roles on offer, and we are looking for dedicated team members who can take ownership of these tasks. All volunteers should be able to both work well within a team environment, and independently where required.
If you would like to be involved in this exciting project, please reply with a CV and cover note detailing your area/s of interest.
What we can offer our volunteers:
The organisers are not working for profit and receive no public funding, with such a small budget unfortunately we are unable to cover volunteer’s expenses. But we can provide real work experience, references, offer free tea/coffee & biscuits at St Margaret’s House, and a great opportunity to be involved in an exciting two week event. Volunteers will also get the opportunity to make friends and connections, gain valuable practical experience in the production of a multi form art exhibition, and help to promote artists based in Scotland.
We require volunteers to assist in the following areas:
Social Media and Marketing – Mid February – Mid April
To assist the core team in delivering our marketing strategy via social media and our website. Working under the voice and direction of the collective you will be responsible for creating and delivering content, updating social channels and our website. There is the opportunity for you to build on our existing audience and the real opportunity to come up with new ideas and implement these to extend our project reach. Ideally you will have some experience in this area, this would also suit a marketing student looking to add some practical experience to their CV. Excellent written English skills are essential.
Print and Design – mid February – April
To work with core team in developing e-flyers and images for social media, web, projection and some print. Working with the core team you will help us develop our visual communications. Applicants must have good Photoshop skills, a flair for design, and be able to produce files ready for publication. We wish to encourage applicants who can build on existing experience, or are looking to gain some practical experience. The successful candidate will have a high level of creative freedom on these projects.
Hanging and Take Down – 26th March – 2nd April and 17th/18th April
We are looking for a number people to help us hang the exhibition, and take down the show. Ideally you will have experience in this area, however candidates with good practical skills who can work under direction of the curators are very welcome to apply. You will gain experience in hanging and dealing with a variety of works. You do not need to be available during the whole of the hang but ideally need to be able to commit to a whole day (minimum).
Invigilation – April 2nd – 17th
We are looking for volunteers to assist with invigilating the gallery. Opening hours are likely to be between 10am – 6pm daily, and you will be responsible for dealing with any sales, and payment queries, with full training provided.
Events Team and Opening Night – March – early April
We are looking for candidates to help run the opening night and our second event evening. We are looking for outgoing and enthusiastic people to assist with performers and artist liaison, co-ordination and communications with performers and team, assist with set up of the events, sound, visuals and the donation bar, and be involved with smooth running of the evening, working with the performance co-ordinators and curators of the show.
Driving, distribution and logistics – March – Mid April
We require volunteers to assist us with a small but varied number of tasks which may include delivery of equipment, purchasing of equipment and supplies for events, delivery of artworks and other logistical tasks. We are also looking for volunteers to assist the core team with distribution of flyers and posters for the show.
And finally….
All volunteers would be asked to attend some meetings with the core team in the run up to the project, and have regular communications with them. We are looking for reliable and dependable candidates who can work well within a group setting.
Enthusiasm and commitment is crucial, and we look forward to making lasting partnerships with our volunteers. This is our third exhibition and we aim to produce more.
So the line-up for the Grand Finale performance evening and party is now with us. On Friday 16th Oct, a host of exciting performers and dancers will entertain you all, amidst the exhibition – a diverse range of works by Scottish-based artists on the theme of the body and Shapes that Shift Desire.
Doors Open at 6:30pm.
Performances start at 7:00pm.
Sergio was born in Huelva on 7th October 1988. He has always shown great interest in the arts and started playing guitar at the conservatory when he was 7, but abandoned it after six years of study for personal reasons. Not wanting to get away from his instrument, he continued for 7 years in the guitar orchestra, “El Taller de Guitarra”. He also was a member of the “Orquesta de Pulso y Púa Rodríguez Albert” during 2 years and has accompanied the singer Rafael Domínguez many times on stages in Huelva. He was also composed and played original music with Dominguez for five years in their group, “Khamala”.
“As music is something you never stop learning, I still have very ambitious goals”, says Sergio… “I want to learn as much as possible, to continue composing, improve and bring to reality all the music on my mind”.
In May 2014, Sergio moved to the city of Edinburgh and in August 2015, he launched his first album, “One Colour Sketched”. He is currently based in Edinburgh as a professional musician.
Follow Sergio on Facebook at Sergio Bueno – Music
Marjorie Lofti – Writer in Residence
The Naked Aye Writer in Residence is going to read some of her work inspired by some of the paintings exhibited at Naked Aye Art Exhibition.
Max Installation + Max and I adventures Video
Come and see the “Max and I Adventures” video based on all our interactions with Max throughout the Naked Aye Art Exhibition and bid the Max installation farewell.
Gavin Glover is the creator of PotatoRoom productions, a company that creates challenging theatrical works that explores the mixture of puppets, acting, clowning, video, movement and dance – in fact, whatever is necessary to create a highly intricate and intriguing theatre.
Rebecca Green
Rebecca will be presenting the second part of “That Thing”.
Rebecca works with live performance, painting, writing, craft and participation. She maintains a diverse practice, which is intimate and universal, mixing improvised surreal intentions, a wilfully alluring insistent humour and collision of empathic bewilderment amid a searing focus illuminating the natures of individual human interactions and relationships.
Her work examines, among other things, accepted and absurd human conventions, the act of performance and the moments between performer and audience, deviant relationships and observations below the surfaces of everyday activities. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.
She will present three performance art pieces for Naked Aye, under the title “That Thing”.
Capoeira is a unique Brazilian cultural art incorporating diverse movements, music and physical conditioning. Group ‘Cordao De Ouro’ is the largest Capoeira group in the UK and one of the largest groups in the World.
The group Cordão de Ouro, meaning ‘rope of gold’ and also ‘neckchain of gold’, was established in 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil, by Mestre Suassuna and Mestre Brasilia. The name derives from the neckchain of gold worn by the famous historical Capoeirista ‘Besouro Manganga’.
Similar to Eastern Martial Arts, many Capoeira groups have a grading system using different coloured belts to mark progression in Capoeira. Different groups have varying uses of colour for the grades, but most can be put into categories of ‘student’, ‘Instructor’, ‘Professor’ (teacher), ‘Contra-Mestre’, ‘Mestre’ (Master), ‘Grao-Mestre’ (Grand master).
Cords are presented to students by their teachers at an annual ceremony and celebration called a “batizado” (literally “baptism”, though the ceremony has no relation to a religious ceremony).
Lipsync for a Lullaby
Lipsync for a Lullaby is a band formed in Edinburgh, a string quartet (trio + drums). Led by composer/cellist Atzi Muramatsu supported by friends he’s met during the years when he played solo shows in venues around the Scottish capital. Current members are: Atzi on vocals and Cello, Tim Vincent-Smith on Violin, David Townhill on Viola, and Scott Jamieson on the drums. It may sound contemporary, but punk is at its heart. http://www.lipsyncforalullaby.com http://www.atzi.co.uk
The Reverse Engineer
The Reverse Engineer is Dave House: a digital composer, sound artist and graphic designer based in Edinburgh. Inspired by the patterns, textures and decay of natural and man-made systems, Dave creates polyrhythmic soundscapes from algorithms, field recordings and everyday objects.
Jean Gillespie’s Lulu series, part of the Naked Aye exhibition
Bye Bye
And fittingly for our grand finale, Naked Aye’s own Performance Curator, Saras Feijoo, will present a Visual poetry piece in collaboration with Sergio Bueno (see above) called “Bye Bye”.
And the very last performer has to be the exhibition itself, of course, providing a fantastic colourful and diverse setting for this jam-packed event – with another chance to purchase an exciting work by a contemporary Scottish-based artist.
Craig Marshall’s photographic works
So, come along and join us for our very last event at the Naked Aye multi-arts festival in what promises to be a fabulous night of performance and fun!
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