Tom Huck at Peacock Visual Arts 2018
Nationally renowned American artist Tom Huck landed in Aberdeen in August for stage one of his residency here at Peacock Visual Arts. Huck came, carved and conquered his latest giant wood block that adds to his ongoing monumental triptych series. The completed triptych – published by Peacock Visual Arts – will be displayed at the prestigious Fine Art Print Fair in New York 2020. Entitled A Monkey Mountain Chronicle: The Great American Turdburger Conspiracy. It’s all about bad healthcare, conspiracy theories, fast food and fat America, and the coming resulting apocalypse! Huck’s relationship with contemporary popular culture is complex. He is at once documenter, critic, and participant. Describing his work as a form of revenge, Huck’s inspiration focuses on the town of his youth, Potosi, and its citizens and histories. His art is concerned with issues of violence, racism, abuses of authority, and people who, as author William Gibson once put it, don't know shit about anything and hate anybody who does. Muses of a mindset ready made to caricature, but synonymous with a deeper cultural malaise that has spread throughout America and her Western cousins.
Big thanks to Mark Slorach and Dan Koss at Northern Collective for the filming and production.
C-X-X-X Grays School of Art C.A.P. Pre Degree Show at Peacock Visual Arts
The Pre Degree Show show is always a good opportunity to see what the artists have been up to and how their work is developing. The art school is a fascinating space, seen by many as a weirdo paradise where the more eccentric the outfit the better and who needs to draw when you can make a small mountain out of copper filings and call it art?
But as someone who takes a great interest in artists and their process I think there is a huge amount of value being created in a place like Grays. Artists are not normal people but who wants to be normal? One of the biggest problems facing the council and the many cultural groups like AB+ in creating this cultural understanding in Aberdeen is that its a city full of normal people and they feel like art needs to be studied to be understood and enjoyed. But I find the opposite works for me, a lack of understanding allows me to rely on an emotional reaction and whether its good or bad doesn't matter that much, the general apathy shown by most people is the danger!
But shows like the Pre Degree Show are a chance to address some of these problems and to hopefuly enlighten people a little, give them a chance to explore contemporary work which is both serious and fun. As much as I enjoy seeing a Picasso or a Turner the work being produced at Grays is important and should be recognised as a stepping stone for emerging artists who are in the process of finding their creative voice and hopefuly challenging their viewers a little. Creativity is vital in many areas and job sectors and is the driving force for change whether in the fields of science, engineering or medicine. And its only by embracing this creativity in all its forms that Aberdeen can hope to become a more culturally friendly city which retains some of the wealth of talent thats currently beavering away behind closed doors.
Despite not gaining the coveted City of Culture prize Aberdeen has a lot of offer, you just have to get out there and embrace it and from what I can see these students are certainly doing just that!
Music - Where You Go I Will Follow by The British Expeditionary Force (Erased Tapes)
OIL ROCKS - CITY ABOVE THE SEA / Film clip no. 3
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SYNOPSIS
THE OIL ROCKS – Behind this enigmatic name lies the first and largest offshore oil town ever built. A vast, sprawling web of oil platforms in the middle of the Caspian Sea, commissioned by Stalin in 1949.
Imagine: 2,000 oil rigs, 300 kilometres of bridges, rusty old Soviet trucks rolling back and forth, nine-storey building blocks, thousands of oil workers, a cultural palace, a lemonade factory, a green park…
Sixty years on, the Oil Rocks still stand. But two-thirds of the infrastructure has been regained by the sea. A kind of Oil Atlantis, only real.
Combining black-and-white archives from the Soviet era and contemporary footage, the film tells the story of this timeless place and of some of its amazing inhabitants.
It is the first time a Western film crew is allowed to make a documentary on the site since its creation.
CREDITS
A film by Marc Wolfensberger
Camera: Jon Björgvinsson
Sound: Blaise Gabioud
Editing: Patrick Léger, Peter Entell, Ana Acosta
Original music: Igor Cubrilovic
Sound editing: Carlos Ibañez
Sound mix: Philippe Mercier, Studio Prism
Colorimetry: Jean-Noël Henrioux, One Pixel Studio
Graphic design: Elise Gaud de Buck, lelgo.com
Field assistant: Kamil Piriyev
Lead producer: Isabelle Gattiker, Intermezzo Films
Co-production: RTS Radio Télévision Suisse, Intermezzo Films, THIN LINE Productions
With the participation of:
YLE (Finland), MDR (Germany), Cinéforom
And the support of:
Ville de Genève – Département des Affaires Culturelles, Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma, Fonds Regio Films, Fonds Mécénat SIG, Succès Passage Antenne, Pour-cent culturel Migros, Fonds de production télévisuelle, Films pour un seul monde, Fondation Corymbo
THE FILM IS AVAILABLE IN:
Russian/Azeri (V.O.), with English subtitles
French (sync.)
German (sync.)
International sales:
intermezzofilms.ch
thin-line.net
FESTIVALS
DADo Film Society, Melbourne (June 2014)
Architecture & Design Film Festival, Australia (May 2014)
ArchiFacts Film Festival Antwerpen (Nov. 2012)
Pyongyang International Film Festival (Sept. 2012)
Peacock Visual Arts Aberdeen (Sept. 2012)
Budapest Architecture Film Days (March 2012)
Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam (Oct. 2011)
Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital, Washington (March 2011)
New waves, new ways, Czech Republic (Nov. 2010)
Doclisboa, Portugual (Oct. 2010)
Reykjavik International Film Festival (Sept. 2010)
Documentarist 2010, Istanbul (June 2010)
Rodos Ecofilms, Greece (June 2010)
International Madrid Documentary Film Festival (May 2010)
Planet Doc Review, Warsaw (May 2010)
Trento Film Festival, Italy (April 2010)
Anasy Documentary Awards, United Arab Emirates (April 2010)
Al-Jazeera International Documentary Film Festival, Doha (April 2010)
Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, Greece (March 2010)
Cinequest Film Festival, San José, CA/U.S.A. (Feb. 2010)
Tokyo International Film Festival (Oct. 2009) – World Premiere
Visions du Réel Nyon, Switzerland (April 2009)
Winner of the Polly Krakora award for artistry in film, Washington Environment Film
UK art by A.K. Segan: Jimmy Furnow's Tales of the Expected, '87 w/Jimmy Furneaux ©
New website of artist Akiva K Segan, January 2019:
holocaust-humanrights-art.org
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Viewers note: The urls of films on 3 other artworks Segan made during his Int'l Artist-in-Residency in Aberdeen:
1) The Old Boid Needed a Holiday:
2) Dunnotar Castle:
3) Taking Aberdeen Beach Walks
4) Two ink drawings: Seagull carcass found on beach at Stonehaven; bone on beach south of Aberdeen
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American artist & Holocaust, genocide, tolerance and art therapy educator Akiva Kenny Segan shows the 1987 stone litho print he and Jimmy Furneaux made with portraits of each other that summer.
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Segan was International Artist-in-Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery. The print was made at the Peacock Prints Centre, Aberdeen.
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Jimmy Furnow, an Aberdeen artist (painter, draughtsman, etcher) and art teacher was making prints at Peacock Prints Centre when the two artists met.
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Two proofs of Jimmy Furnow's Tales of the Expected are in public collections:
The Aberdeen Art Gallery
Portland Art Museum, Vivian & Gordon Gilkey Prints Collection, Oregon, USA.
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The other proofs of the edition (not including the one Segan owns and one or two that Jimmy owned) were presented as gifts to staff and print-makers at Peacock Prints Centre.
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Sadly, Jimmy Furneaux passed on in Aberdeen in Feb. 2013. An obit of Jimmy can be read in the Scotsman:
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Thanks to the interest of the late Gordon Gilkey, Prints Curator at the Portland Art Museum (& who, with the assistance of Segan), the Gilkey Prints Collection at PAM owns one etching by Jimmy; along w/ prints by about 15 artists who worked at Peacock and/or who were doing printmaking in n.e. Scotland that year.
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They include Jonathan Comerford, now residing in London; David Atherton, now in Dunoon, and Mat Fahrenholz, a Gray's Art School grad and former Scottish Artist-in-Residence at the Aberdeen Art Gallery now residing in Warsaw, Poland.
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The Olde British Board of Film Censors have rated this A jolly good show!
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Aberdeen locals rated it as follows: This picture still looks squint! and headed out for stovies, haggis, cheesies (grilled cheese san's) & topical whiskey drinks & perhaps a tropical drink or two.
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Art, film © A.K. Segan.
Landmark Arts Centre - Gallery Show 2010 Overview
The Landmark Arts Centre in Teddington, London, housed in the magnificent gothic surroundings of a former church, is launching the new permanent visual arts gallery. Approximately 100 visual artists will have art on display during January and February 2010. This will complement Landmark Art Fairs that are now recognised as the most important events in the visual arts calendar.
Aberdeen
Aberdeen /æbərˈdiːn/ (Scots: Aiberdeen listen ; Scottish Gaelic: Obar Dheathain [ˈopər ˈʝɛhɪn]) is Scotland's third most populous city, one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas and the United Kingdom's 37th most populous built-up area, with an official population estimate of 220,420.
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Amazing Sculptures
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Robert Erskine was born in London.
From an early age he displayed an enquiring disproportionate disposition towards all things mechanical.
At 4 years of age he successfully locked, without keys, the family's late 50's Kelvinator fridge and aged 6 he started dismantling the family car. He then progressed to using his father's medical instruments, (his father was a doctor and none too pleased), as stone carving tools and a personal turning point took place in 1967, aged13, he was taken to St Paul de Vence, Provence, to visit the Maeght Art Foundation. The exhibition was of paintings by Marc Chagall and a memorial exhibition of sculpture by Giacometti, who had recently died. Enquiring as to the meaning of a huge banner across the road to the museum proclaiming the word 'SCULPTURE', he was told to go inside to see. The exhibition confirmed that what he wanted to do was 'make sculpture'.
At high school he had his first exhibition, which consisted of 8 large abstract carved blocks of plaster. After completing high school he studied sculpture at Kingston School of Art and Design, Kingston Polytechnic, gaining a BA(Hons) degree in fine art sculpture, and completed post-graduate studies in sculpture, gaining an MA in fine art sculpture, under Professor Reg Butler at the Slade School of Fine Art, University College, London.
Trained in stone carving, ceramics, drawing, metal working, and welding, Robert often works in wrought and welded bronze, stainless steel, and copper alloys. Drawing is central to the development of his ideas. Among the many areas of focus is his fascination with the endless energy and rhythm of passing crowd forms, which make up the cityscape. He continues to develop his ideas.
Robert's work is internationally renowned and he has exhibited widely in Japan, Europe, Great Britain, and the USA; most notably a solo exhibition of sculpture and related two-dimensional works at the World Headquarters of Pfizer Pharmaceutical Inc, New York. This exhibition then went on tour to other major cities across the USA.
Robert has undertaken many architectural commissions, and designed award winning sculpture for major commercial developments, and regeneration schemes. He has also created numerous monumental landmark sculptures throughout the UK and Europe.
In 1999 he represented Great Britain at the European City of Culture Sculpture Symposium, 'A Sea of Steel', hosted by Holland. Of the 12 participating countries, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands awarded Robert's steel sculpture, 'White Rhythm', weighing in at 13.5 tons, first prize. The sculpture is sited permanently in the sculpture park of Wijk aan Zee. The Hakone Open Air Museum of Sculpture, Japan, awarded his sculpture 'Sky Thought' the maquette of excellence, at the International Sculpture Biennale, 1992. For his sculpture 'Quintisection' a monumental stainless steel piece sited in Durham, he was awarded by the Royal British Society of Sculptors, the 1994 international Sir Otto Beit Award for the most outstanding new public sculpture worldwide, and in 1996 his landmark sculpture 'Roll Down' sited at Bilston, West Midlands, was nominated for the Anderson Sculpture Prize.
The Courtauld Institute and the Public Monuments and Sculptures Association, London, have awarded Robert's public and landmark sculptures the status of permanent public monuments in acknowledgement of his contribution to the heritage and culture of the nation.
His work is held in many private and public collections around the world.
Associate of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1993.
Fellowship of the Royal Society of British Sculptors 1996.
Robert is naturally involved in design as much as his sculpture, and works in the areas of product and industrial design, holding design patents. He has been design consultant for Marks & Spencer and Nestle Europe. In the area of architectural development he has been a designer working on the Sultan of Brunei's Palace, and private and commercial developments including international Hotel Developments.
Robert is also a regular contributor and broadcaster to the most respected live automotive weekly broadcast on US radio, Autolab Broadcast. With his unique background in sculpture and design he brings a focus on automotive design and technology innovation.
Education
1970-71 -- Ealing School of Art and Design, London. Foundation Studies in Painting, Sculpture, Graphics, Photography, Printing, Life Drawing
1971-75 -- Kingston School of Art and Design, Kingston Polytechnic, Kingston -Upon- Thames, Surrey. Awarded B.A. (Hons.) Degree, Fine Art Sculpture
1976-78 -- Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Postgraduate degree studies in Fine Art Sculpture. Awarded M.A. Sculpture
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Staurt Allan - Hannah Miley Commision
Painter and graduate of Gray's School of Art Stuart Allan discusses his recent commission to paint Olympic Swimmer Hannah Miley.
London-based artist Jono Comerford on A K Segan's 2016 Robert Desnos lino portrait (& Oy Vey!)
On April 13,2017 Capetown, S Africa born 'n' raised printmaker Jonathan Comerford, now residing in London, England, talked about American Jewish artist and tolerance educator Akiva Kenny Segan's 2016 linocut portrait of Robert Desnos.
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Desnos, born in 1900, was murdered by the Nazis at the concentration-death camp and transit center (to the Auschwitz mass murder-extermination camp) at Terezin, aka Theresienstadt.
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A surrealist poet, author of thousands of radio commercials and an art, literature and music critic, Desnos was involved in the anti-Nazi French resistance. He was of Jewish heritage
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Comerford, a printmaker (etchings, linos) of great talent, is with Hardground Prints Centre, formerly in Capetown, now in London.
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An MOT, as heard in the narration, is a Jewish slang term (in abbreviated initials) for Member of the Tribe, i.e. someone Jewish.
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Comerford and Segan first met in 1987 when Comerford was printmaking at Peacock Prints Centre, Aberdeen. Segan spent 5 months in Aberdeen that year when he was Int'l Artist-in-Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery.
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An etching by Comerford is in the Gilkey Prints Collection, Portland Art Museum, Oregon, which Segan arranged the purchase by the late Gordon Gilkey at the museum. Other works acquired by Gilkey for the collection via Segan include etchings by one English and a number of Scottish artist who were in Aberdeen; and etchings by Polish artists from Krakow, Poland, where Segan studied summers 1984 and '85.
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On the weekend of April 15th, Segan drew and cut a linocut block, which Comerford printed for fundraising and for possible exhibit in a group show in Capetown later this year or next year, which Jonathan hopes to organize with his Hardground Prints and Sans Frontiers (prints) projects.
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See the video (to be posted soon) of the lino: The Sea demons and the Sailing Ship St Louis, 1939.
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Jonathan Comerfords website:
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Flickr albums of Segan's social justice and tolerance education art:
Flickr albums of photos of Segan Holocaust, anti-Fascism (WWII); and human rights art:
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64 artworks (drawings; mosaic-drawing combos): Under the Wings art series, portraying victims of the Nazis and Fascists in Europe, 1933-45:
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25 drawings: The Sight-seeing with Dignity human rights art series:
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43 Holocaust artworks (not part of the Under the Wings series):
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8 mosaic – drawing combo artworks, Under the Wings series:
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11 anti-war, human rights artworks (non-Holocaust) by A.K. Segan:
Liz Arnold exhibition at Camden Arts Centre 20 Feb 2009 - 19 Apr 2009
Liz Arnold (1964-2001) was one of the most original painters to emerge onto the London art scene in the 1990s.
Her carefully crafted canvases depict cartoon-like animals seemingly imbued with human emotions. They inhabit a world that is both fantastical and familiar.
Selected for the 1996 New Contemporaries at Camden Arts Centre, and for Becks Futures at the ICA in 2000, Arnold's paintings have proved irresistible to both the critics and the public alike.
most promising painter and, by common consent, the star of her generation
The Independent on Liz Arnold in the New Contemporaries exhibition
'Mythic Heaven' (1995), a painting of a smoking ladybird, and 'Field Trip' (1999), a toxic landscape punctuated by green, drooping, phallic plants, are typical of her wit and unique vision. Arnold described her paintings as little worlds, created to both escape from, and refer to, the real world.
The exhibition includes works which have never been exhibited before and is curated by four artists: Richard Kirwan, Brighid Lowe, Bridget Smith and Daniel Sturgis.
Liz Arnold died in 2001, aged just 36.
Supported by The Elephant Trust.
Albert, Prince Consort
Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel; later The Prince Consort; 26 August 1819 – 14 December 1861) was the husband of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
He was born in the Saxon duchy of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld to a family connected to many of Europe's ruling monarchs. At the age of 20 he married his first cousin, Queen Victoria, with whom he would ultimately have nine children. At first, Albert felt constrained by his position as consort, which did not confer any power or duties upon him. Over time he adopted many public causes, such as educational reform and a worldwide abolition of slavery, and took on the responsibilities of running the Queen's household, estates and office. He was heavily involved with the organisation of the Great Exhibition of 1851. Albert aided in the development of Britain's constitutional monarchy by persuading his wife to show less partisanship in her dealings with Parliament—although he actively disagreed with the interventionist foreign policy pursued during Lord Palmerston's tenure as Foreign Secretary.
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SIMON & GARFUNKEL (Scarborough Fair) LYRICS ENCLOSED
Scarborough Fair for Alessandra
is a traditional ballad of Great Britain.
The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.
As the versions of the ballad known under the title Scarborough Fair are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is a song about the Plague. The lyrics of Scarborough Fair appear to have something in common with an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2),[1] which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand).
The melody is very typical of the middle English period.
As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, Scarborough Fair and the refrain parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot. A number of older versions refer to locations other than Scarborough Fair, including Wittingham Fair, Cape Ann, twixt Berwik and Lyne, etc. Many versions do not mention a place-name, and are often generically titled (The Lovers' Tasks, My Father Gave Me an Acre of Land, etc.). LYRICS;
Are you going to Whittingham Fair?
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
Remember me to one who lives there,
For once she was a true love of mine.
Tell her to make me a cambric shirt,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Without any seam or needlework,
Then she shall be a true lover of mine.
Tell her to wash it in yonder well,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Where never spring water or rain ever fell,
And she shall be a true lover of mine.
Tell her to dry it on yonder thorn,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Which never bore blossom since Adam was born,
Then she shall be a true lover of mine.
Now he has asked me questions three,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
I hope he'll answer as many for me
Before he shall be a true lover of mine.
Tell him to buy me an acre of land,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
Betwixt the salt water and the sea sand,
Then he shall be a true lover of mine.
Tell him to plough it with a ram's horn,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
And sow it all over with one pepper corn,
And he shall be a true lover of mine.
Tell him to shear it with a sickle of leather,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme;
And bind it up with a peacock feather.
And he shall be a true lover of mine.
Tell him to thrash it on yonder wall,
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme,
And never let one corn of it fall,
Then he shall be a true lover of mine.
When he has done and finished his work.
Parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme
Chinese Dance - Elegant 风雅 - Colours of Dance Academy at PacWest Festival
The Colours of Dance Academy performing Elegant 风雅 at the PacWest Festival at Michael J Fox theatre in Burnaby, British Columbia.
Colours of Dance Academy:
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NUART FESTIVAL 2016 - PROMO
A run-down of the artists participating in Nuart Festival 2016.
With Add Fuel (PT), Axel Void (ES), Eron (IT), Evol (DE), Fintan Magee (AU), Henrik Udalen (NO), Hyuro (AR), Jaune (BE), Jeff Gillette (US), Kennardphillipps (UK), MTO (FR), Nipper (NO), Robert Montgomery (UK) and SpY (ES).
Soundtrack: Fela Kuti & Ginger Baker - Drum Solo (Part 1).
Tarian Kipas Ungu // 风酥雨忆 // Misty Memories by Phoenix Dance
Beautiful Chinese Fan Dance performed by Phoenix Dance Team Semarang
Gunwharf Quays Outlet Shopping Centre - Virtual Tour - Portsmouth - December 2019 | kittikoko
Gunwharf Quays is a shopping centre located in Portsmouth, UK. It was constructed in the early 21st century on the site of what had once been HM Gunwharf, Portsmouth. This was one of several such facilities which were established around Britain and the Empire by the Board of Ordnance, where cannons, ammunition and other armaments were stored, repaired and serviced ready for use on land or at sea. Later known as HMS Vernon, the military site closed in 1995, and opened to the public as Gunwharf Quays after six years of reconstruction (which included the restoration of some of the surviving 18th and 19th-century Gun Wharf buildings). The landmark Spinnaker Tower, which also stands on the site, was opened a few years later.
From Visit Portsmouth:
Gunwharf Quays is home to over 90 famous brands all offering up to 60% off the regular retail price.
If you love to shop then there really is no better place than Gunwharf Quays; with famous brands including Karl Lagerfeld, Kate Spade, Coach, Yankee Candle, Rituals, Hugo Boss, Mint Velvet and Joules. And when it’s time to relax you’ll find an array of bars, coffee shops and restaurants to tempt you from around the world, whether that's mouth-watering French cuisine at Brasserie Blanc, fresh seafood at Loch Fyne, a host of fine Italian dishes to choose from at Carluccio’s, or one of the many others.
If you want even more from your visit to Gunwharf Quays then there’s Vue Cinema, Hollywood Bowl, a contemporary art gallery, nightclub and casino.
British artist & amateur historian David Atherton shows A K Segan anti-Nazi beach ruins
This was video'd on a walk on the beach in Newburgh, Scotland, March 12, 2015.
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A fine artist and now retired as Arts Liason Officer, Aberdeeenshire, David Atherton led visiting American artist Akiva Kenny Segan on beach walks at Newburgh and north of Newburgh during Segan's teaching visits to Scottish schools in 2011 and 2015.
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Atherton pointed out tank traps and pillboxes constructed by the British Army in 1941-42. These are on the beach in Newburgh, Scotland, which is about a half hour north of Aberdeen.
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re: the large brown rusted metal piece Atherton is seen holding, Segan brought that back to Seattle but hasn't yet used it in a mosaic-drawing combo. Segan says he might try to use it in the mosaic-drawing combo he plans to do in 2018, to portray Noor Inayat Khan of London, who was executed by the Nazis.
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During the beach walks Segan picked up pieces of metal: barbed wire, rods, bricks, that are decaying in the sands along the Newburgh beach. They are from British Army built anti-Nazi, anti-tank fortifications constructed 1941-42.
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Segan encased some of the barbed wire in a heavy glass ashtray, and inserted a metal rod from the ruins, in Under the Wings series 60: Orthodox Jewish prisoner under barbed wire, Olkusz, Poland, 1940. (see Youtube videos of that work by title & Segan)
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More metal pieces Segan picked up on a 2015 beach walk were used in the mosaic of Under the Wings 63:
Pere Jacques, Righteous Person, a French priest and school head murdered by the Nazis at the Mauthausen concentration-death camp in Austria. (see Youtube videos of that work by title and Segan)
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Segan and Sir Atherton met in 1987: Atherton was working as a staff lithographer at Peacock Prints Centre, Aberdeen. Segan spent 5 months in Aberdeen while Int'l Artist-in-Residence, Aberdeen Art Gallery, where he valiantly tried to understand the locals and the unfathomable Aberdonian dialect.
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Segan lives in Seattle, Washington, PNW.
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Brigadier Artist, Art Commander & Nature Guide Sir David now lives in western Scotland
UK art by A.K. Segan: Old Boid Needed Holiday © ’87 signed by 53 Britons + Doug Ness BBC-2 interview
New website of artist Akiva K Segan, August 2019: humanrights-holocaust-art.org
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This video includes a 6 min., 46 sec video of a BBC-2 interview by Douglass Ness of Segan w/ the Old Boid boid & the drawing in the studio-flat Segan lived in at 11 Belmont St., Aberdeen.
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URL of an 16 min., 48 sec video of the 1990 art sequel to The Old Boid: Ye Olde Aberdeen Views, by Jove!
(This latter work is nearly completed & awaits more 'witness' signatories).
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Videos of other UK art can be found by typing A.K. Segan in the Youtube search box.
About The OLD BOID NEEDED A HOLIDAY:
The drawing is an artistic snapshot of Aberdeen life & people, '87 & a living art document of topical Aberdeen history.
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It chronicles Segan's borrowing a stuffed golden pheasant from a downstairs neighbor, jeweler Dave Milne, a lover of quality vice. The drawing was witnessed by dozens of Aberdeen residents:
Numbered signatories: 1. Deborah Schultz -- scholar of life & art
2. M. Fahrenholz -- [ w / doodles including !! & a drawn skull & crossbones & !?]
3. Ross Donald -- [R&B Music shop rubber stamp w/ the name, address, tel #]
4. S. M(eachem? -- indecipherable) -- undefined [this signer wrote 'undefined' as occupation]
5. Mike Davidson - photographer / 6. A black thumbprint done from an inkpad - banker (?)
7. Ian Gordon -- banker (not sure if # 5 or # 6 both say banker)
8. (indecipherable signature) -- BBC broadcaster [probably Douglas Ness]
9 . Kate Sutherland -- photographer / 10. Ian (?) Lundy -- journalist
11. Graeme McK(indecipherable) -- painter
12. Graeme Robb -- photographer, tech assistant [w/ a rubber stamp: Tech Services Unit, Law & Administration Dept, Town House, Aberdeen]
13. Alison (?) Seller -- Buddhist / 14. Francina Irwin -- art historian [F.I. was Keeper of Art @ Aber. Art Gallery]
15. David Strent (surname is hard-to-read, Strent is a guess) -- police officer
16. Jason Archibald -- school [a pupil] / 17. Mark Donald -- school [also a pupil]
18. Rachel M. Wallace -- Kall Kwik owner [Kall Kwik photocopy shop was one block east of Union St]
19. Kristyann Wallace - poet [she's Rachel & David's daughter]
20. David Wallace [Rachel's spouse; the other 1/2 of owning Kall-Kwik, w/ Rachel]
21. Norman Matheson -- Aberdeen Hospital Art Project [*the good doc oversaw acquisition of Segan art to the collection]
22. (indecipherable first name; last name might be Robertson) -- trying hard
23. Tadeusz Deregowski -- art student / 24. (indecipherable signature) -- Bank Manager Lloyds Bank / 25. Sara - kid & skateboarder / 26. Safa - horse rider.
27. Marion J Sacharin - give me an aspirin - quick! [U Aberdeen student)
28. Anne Fairley - music lover / 29. Caryn L. Thompson - Helicopter pilot
30. Sallyann Brider (possibly Drider?) - computer operator, Sydney Adventist Hospital, NSW 2076 Australia / 31. Richard Price (Gray's Art School student; he wrote a long treatise after his name)
CONSULAR, MUNICIPAL & OTHER SCATTERED-ABOUT the ART WITNESSES:
Sandy Reekie - D.A.F.S. (Dept. of Agriculture & Fisheries, Security)
Charges d'Affaires -- Vice Consul, Denmark (indecipherable signature)
The Honourable Lord Provost of Aberdeen [those 6 preceding words inked by the artist in an arty script] - H.E. Rae [signed with a brown fountain pen ink]
J. B. (?) R(w/ probably a 7-letter indecipherable surname) -- Sheriff Clerk
Below his signature - two support staffers: Dorothy L. Davidson,
Mark D. Pottimer (Mark's surname is indecipherable, Pottimer is a guess)
Stuart T. MacKenzie, artist -- Aberdeen Art Gallery Scotttish AIR
Indecipherable signature -- Peacock Printmakers director; also indecipherable: Peacock - 'company secretary'
This signature is in a separate section:
Witness A : Vicki Ditchfield
TWELVE ABER. ART GALLERY STAFF signatures are seen at far right:
The signature at top reads: John Stephen - Town Sgt.
(indecipherable 2 or 3 letter first name; surname): Evalement (?)
J. Nelson / David Taylor / J. Davidson / Alex Hidalgo [signed upside down]
Valerie Howie / Angela Paterson / Alistair K. Brown
Edith Meldreem [the surname could be Meldum?]
Debbie Bull [uncertain of surname but looks like bull]
Ciaran Monaghan / Catherine Williams
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Northsound Radio, Aberdeen, Scotland, June 25 '87 w/ Senior Producer Edi Stark, On-air interview time: 5 min:
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Art, film © A.K. Segan