Artist:
Alastair Clark
Title: Weather Sequence
Medium: Lithograph
Image size (cm) h x w: 31 x 46cm
Edition size: 20
Weather sequence.
This print is based on downloaded weather satellite imagery .
As images they express something about the scale and fluidty of nature.
The sequence
of images at the base of the print comes from a
series of real satellite passes tracking a storm as it crosses the Atlantic.
The shape of each pass being altered by the curve of the earth. Having
been transmitted back to earth, weather satellite imagery is viewed
on computer screens for meteorologists to analyse the information. Ironically
this information is then transmitted back to the atmosphere to be downloaded
over the internet and so the cycle goes on.
The shape of the lithographic stone is used as a reference to the rounded edges of a computer screen. It appeals to me that transferring this hi-tech satellite imagery directly onto a stone’s surface can alter its feel and change its point of reference, removing it from 21st century science and placing it back in ‘the stone age’.
Westerly is taken form the portfolio of prints ‘from the atmosphere’ which explore weather satellite imagery.
C.V.
1986-90 BA (Hons), Drawing and Painting,
Edinburgh College of Art.
1990-91 Post-Graduate in Painting and Printmaking, Edinburgh College
of Art.
1995 Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Summer Workshop
Selected awards:
2002 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Print open exhibition Prize.
1997 Prizewinner ‘The Joseph Bonnar’ award , Society of
Scottish Artists.
1995 Scottish Arts Council Travel Award
1994 Openshaw Printmaking Residency, Lowick House, Cumbria.
1994 Prizewinner, Out of the Blue Gallery- Open Exhibition, Edinburgh.
1991 Andrew Grant Post Graduate Travel Scholarship.
Teaching and professional experience:
1999-2001 Elected Council member of the Society of Scottish Artists
1995-2003. Lecturer in printmaking, Edinburgh College of Art.
1992-2003. Lithography technician , Edinburgh Printmakers
2003- Currently studio Manager of Edinburgh Printmakers
Solo exhibitions :
2003 From the atmosphere, Dundee Contemporary Arts centre, Print Gallery
2001 Under the surface, Edinburgh Printmakers
1997 Stone prints- with Elizabeth Hobbs, Traverse, Edinburgh Festival.
Selected group exhibitions:
2002 Moving Solutions, SSA at ArtTM, Inverness
2002 Dundee Contemporary Arts, Print open exhibition, prizewinner
2001 Contemporary Art Open- SSA
2000 Printmaking Present, Gracefield Arts centre, Dumfries
2000 Digitally Mastered, Glasgow Print Studio Gallery
1999 Printmakers Council Open Biennale, Atrium gallery, Whiteleys London
1997 The ‘MAG’ Collection, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
1996 Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.
1995 Common Origins- Edinburgh International Science Festival, Traverse
Theatre