McLean Museum & Art Gallery - Artist in Residence Journal

Residency Programme

  1. Review selected collections held by the Museum to identify those collections that will best deliver the objectives of the residency. Several objects from each of the selected collections will then be chosen for inclusion in the artworks that are to be created.
  2. Research the digital techniques to be employed in their creation, identifying any technical requirements of the underlying technology such as resolution, scale, and media in relation to the selected objects.
  3. Photograph selected objects from each collection.
  4. Create the final artworks (digital montage or AV presentation) by composing and digitally manipulating the images using the appropriate digital techniques.

Progress to July 2008

Preparatory work to identify work space in the museum and procedures for accessing the museum collections is complete and the process of capturing the Museum objects continues using the lighting processes established previously. I now have over five hundred photographs and am working up the most suitable of these for inclusion in the project works.

I have completed several montages using some of the objects from the Museum African collections and have now moved on to the Egyptian collections. These are much different and are posing new challenges on both the technical and artistic front. The completed montages can now be viewed in the galleries.

I have decided to use PicturesToExe software to create the audio visuals for this project and I have begun the first one which is based on the Egyptian collections.

As noted in my journal last month Inverclyde Media have made available on their website their interview with me describing the creation of my prototype audio-visual interview.

I welcome any comments by e-mail