Pathways Exhibition in Peebles

 

David Williams taking measurments on the maquette to be applied to the finished machine.

ArtRite is delighted to announce that out of the grant received from Awards for All, our group has been able to commission David Williams to build a drawing engine. Using technologies available for six centuries, Mr.Williams and Ian Boscomb are constructing the huge machine in their workshop in Dumfries and Galloway.

 

It will form the centre piece of the Pathways exhibition in the gallery at Tweeddale Museum, Chambers Institute, High Street, Peebles from 7th October to 10th November. Visitors will be able to turn the machine's handle so that the arm will draw a pattern in the sand tray. As the position of the arm can be adjusted, a variety of patterns (or pathways) can be formed. By playing with the machine, spectators may feel that they are also participants in the exhibition.

David Williams has vast experience in making props for stage, film and TV. Evidence of his work can be seen at Caerlaverock Castle where he acted as a consultant to construction of the two medievel siege engines.

 

The exhibition demonstrates what can happen when one artist's work becomes the inpsiration for the next artist, whose response then becomes the inspration for the third artist, until chains nine, ten, even fifteen, images long are made. Fifty people, including fulltime professional artists and self-taught parttimers and ranging in age from 10 to 70+, have contributed one or more pictures to the exhibition.


The members of ArtRite are Hugh Peebles and Fiona Graham, who are resident in Peebles, and David McAleece from Edinburgh and Sylvie Stainton from Musselburgh.

Hugh Peebles and Fiona Graham meet with David Williams to discuss his progress with the construction of the Pathways Drawing Engine.

 

 


For further information please contact Fiona Graham on 01721 721061 or at macscotland@mac.com.

 

For larger reproductions of the images click on the appropriate picture.