WHAT’S HAPPENING AT THE ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE PROGRAMME
Keep up to date with the latest news from all the Artists living and working at the Glenfiddich Distillery
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The last (but certainly not least) arrival to this summer’s Glenfiddich Residency is Arturo Alcazar from Mexico. Although Arturo is based in his native Mexico city he is something of an artist nomad spending equal amounts of time in Europe, in particular Berlin. His artistic practice is equally difficult to pin down firmly, being part performance, part sculptural.
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Another week and another arrival to The Glenfiddich Distillery. This time we welcomed Krupa Makhija who jetted in from Delhi to take up her place at this summer’s residency.
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Krupa is the latest recipient of the Glenfiddich/BestCollegeArt Emerging Indian Artist of the Year Award, which she received at a public reception in the luxurious surroundings of the Oberoi Hotel, Gurgaon earlier on this year.
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The latest resident to arrive at The Glenfiddich Distillery is Han Seok Hyun, our forth Korean resident and once again selected with kind assistance Suzie Lee of the Inverness St. Gallery in Camden.
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Ecology is central to Seok Hyun’s art and for the past few years he has been ‘growing’ trees using timber donated by members of the public or salvaged from skips and dumping grounds. Old, unwanted pieces of furniture, pallets, packaging crates, broken and smashed, are all recycled by the artist into living, growing sculptural pieces which acknowledge the majestic contortions of ancient trees, twisted and gnarled with the passage of time.
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Beating his wings harder and harder, Icarus soared up into the sky and out over the Aegean Sea. It was hard to believe the plan had worked. For here he was now, flying alongside his father Daedulus, as they left the island of Crete behind them and travelled on towards their freedom. Icarus glanced over his shoulder at his father and grinned.
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“Come along, Father,” he shouted over the sound of the wind rushing past them. “Smile, we’ve done it ! we’ve escaped! We’re free ! -
Now that we are a few weeks in to this summer’s residency period the evolution of creativity is for some of the early arrivals well into the fermentation stage. Initial reactions to the new environment experienced by the artists give birth to brew of thoughts and ideas which then have to be distilled down to their essence.
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Another week and another artist arrives to take up his residency at Glenfiddich. Our latest addition to this year’s cohort is Shanghai based sculptor Su Chang, who becomes the ninth Chinese artist to join our programme and the third to be selected with the assistance of our partners at Shanghai’s Don Gallery.
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In the week where our newly elected Scottish MPs headed down to take up their seats in Westminster, a different group of young Scottish talent was also London bound to attend the New Scottish Artists Exhibition which opened on Tuesday at the Fleming Collection.
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The weather showed some improvement for the arrival of our second resident Daniel Munoz who arrived into Aberdeen to be met with brilliant sunshine. Having travelled from just outside Madrid, Daniel is a close friend of last year’s Spanish artist Suso33. Although he comes from the same street art background as Suso, Daniel now prefers drawing for his medium of creative expression.
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With the last couple of weeks in Speyside having been as warm as a Bombay winter it was a bit disappointing to see the return of snow on Friday morning! It was also a bit of a shock to the system for Chang Huei-ming, arriving in to Aberdeen from the more clement climes of Taipei that same day.
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The Glenfiddich Distillery is delighted to announce the line of artists taking part in this year’s residency programme.
Now in its fourteenth year we once again have invited an exciting group of artists from around the world to spend three months in the heart of Speyside to be inspired and create.
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Christmas has always been a special time at Glenfiddich. It was after all on a Christmas day morning in 1887 that the first drop of spirit ran from our stills. So for the past few years we have always tried to do something a little different to mark the occasion. We have already had a Christmas tree made from three hundred and sixty five Glenfiddich bottles, and seen curled shavings of cask staves transformed into angel wings. But for 2014 the idea was to encompass the joy of giving by gift wrapping something precious, a cask of pure Glenfiddich spirit!
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It’s Halloween and the spirits on the loose! There are reports that strange apparitions, ghostly faces and figures have appeared in shadows of some of the quieter corners not far from The Glenfiddich Distillery.
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The last week of September sees Dufftown host the annual autumn whisky festival which over the years has become a popular event, bringing visitors from far and wide to the town. And so in keeping with recent tradition it is also the weekend we open the final exhibition of each summer’s residency.
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Although the past week has seen the artistic cohort at Glenfiddich thin down somewhat with the departure of several residents, but with four still on site and the final exhibition of new work scheduled for end of this month, things are not much quieter.
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As one door closes another always opens. Might not be straight away though and in the case of turn round times between residency exhibitions at Glenfiddich it is around four and half days. With our first exhibition closing on Sunday 17th August there was a lot of work to do to prepare for the private view of the second one the following Friday.
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