by dougiek | Mar 10, 2018 | Bronze Casting, Slavery
It’s been a while since I posted an update and quite a lot has happened in the intervening time. The first semester is over and I have progressed into semester 2 where quite a bit of humanities work needs to be done, The art side is progressing well, albeit a...
by dougiek | Dec 3, 2017 | Slavery, Stewarts
I’ve been researching two stories for the course that will hopefully make it into prints for the degree show in September. The first is about a male slave, Oronoce, who was arrested in Perthshire in 1749 for the heinous crime of wearing tartan, or tartan Livery...
by dougiek | Oct 14, 2017 | Media, Slavery
The video below is from the FB page of BBC Scotland News. The subject matter, Glasgow & its connections to the slave trade, has also been the subject of an article in the Scotsman. I’m seriously disappointed with a lot of the comments on both articles. It...
by dougiek | Sep 20, 2017 | Digital, Print Making, Slavery
Glasgow has some strong links to the slave trade, with streets named after plantation/slave owners along with places where slaves were taken from or the locations of plantations. The area known as Merchant City is where the major tobacco, tea & sugar plantation...
by dougiek | Sep 18, 2017 | Slavery
I’m looking forward to trying new things on the MFA, particularly print making. I did a small amount of that when I was at FE college, which I enjoyed, but never did any more after leaving for DJCAD. I’m also thinking about sculpture, again I did some at...
