GIMME SHELTER 2014
Scott Myles (1975 – )
Details
- Dimension
- 102 x 72 cm
- Media
- Unique screenprint
- Accession number
- P8561
Summary
Scott Myles was born in Dundee in 1975. Myles’ conceptually-based practice encompasses sculpture, installation, painting and print. His work is underpinned by an interest in language, linguistic play and dichotomy and represents a complex network of responses to social and physical infrastructures of all kinds.
‘As a starting point for my journey around India and Bangladesh, I planned my itinerary around architecture, visiting Edwin Lutyens’ Delhi, Le Corbusier’s Complex in Chandigarh and Louis Kahn’s wonderful parliament building in Dhaka. This speculative route offered me a kind of framework around which I would immerse myself in two challenging new countries and cultures. I’m extremely grateful for the opportunity to visit magnificent sites such as Humayun’s Tomb, Hazrat Nizamuddin Dargah, and the 18th century observatory Jantar Mantar in Delhi. In Ahmedabad I was astounded by the Sarabhai Foundation Calico Textile Museum. It was while visiting Ahmedabad I discovered the work of architect Charles Correa, at the Gandhi Smarak Sangrahalaya. Curiously, this research led me to a pertinent quotation; “ALL RESEARCH WILL BE USELESS IF IT IS NOT ALLIED TO INTERNAL RESEARCH.” These words of Mahatma Gandhi have informed my artwork for ‘Below Another Sky’; a new print, along with two others based on instructional signage. ‘SWAPPING POCKETS’ and ‘GIMME SHELTER’ are codified reflections on my residency.’[i]
Below another sky was the first collaborative programme developed by the Scottish Print Network, a partnership between Dundee Contemporary Arts, Edinburgh Printmakers, Glasgow Print Studio, Highland Print Studio, Inverness and Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen.
10 artists from Scotland and 10 from Commonwealth countries were invited to undertake research residencies during 2013 and 2014. Artists from Scotland travelled to Antigua, Baffin Bay, Bangladesh, Canada, India, New Zealand and Zambia; artists from Australia, Canada, India and Pakistan were on residency in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness.
Each artist worked with one of the five print studios on the development of ambitious and innovative new work in print, taking full advantage of the excellent range of resources, equipment and expertise available through each organisation.
Below another sky takes its name from the poem ‘Travel’, published in 1865 by the Edinburgh-born author Robert Louis Stevenson.
[i] Scott Myles
Glossary
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Contemporary
Existing or coming into being at the same period; of today or of the present. The term that designates art being made today.
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Installation
An artwork comprised of many and various elements of miscellaneous materials (see mixed media), light and sound, which is conceived for and occupies an entire space, gallery or site. The viewer can often enter or walk around the installation. Installations may only exist as long as they are installed, but can be re-created in different sites. Installation art emerged in the 1960s out of Environmental Art (works of art which are three-dimensional environments), but it was not until the 1970s that the term came into common use and not until the late 1980s that artists started to specialise in this kind of work, creating a genre of ‘Installation Art’. The term can also be applied to the arrangement of selected art works in an exhibition.
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Painting
Work of art made with paint on a surface. Often the surface, also called a support, is a tightly stretched piece of canvas, paper or a wooden panel. Painting involves a wide range of techniques and materials, along with the artist's intellectual concerns effecting the content of a work.
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Sculpture
A three-dimensional work of art. Such works may be carved, modelled, constructed, or cast. Sculptures can also be described as assemblage, in the round, relief, and made in a huge variety of media. Contemporary practice also includes live elements, as in Gilbert & George 'Living Sculpture' as well as broadcast work, radio or sound sculpture.