GLISK exhibition - Katie Taylor

Visual artist Katie Taylor has worked alongside the team involved in GLISK from early stages of R&D in Aberdeen. For each rendition/performance/residency she has produced different bodies of work spanning from drawings, ceramics and printmaking. Her next steps for GLISK are to explore embedding the work itself into the performance.

“These hanging materials have been created with a Japanese technique called ‘suminagashi’, which translates to ‘floating ink’. Katie Taylor chose to work in the studio among the dancers and music. As she floats the ink on water any disturbances from musical vibrations or gusts of dancers movement manipulates where the ink travels on the water. Katie places the ink in correspondence to the dancers but the ink is then left to evolve in response to the movement and music in the space. These completely unique patterns are then transferred onto the material. Katie was drawn to using this technique, as in the creation of GLISK, water and the north sea held influence. This way, she is able to co-create with these natural elements.

Katie has chosen to use gold pigment alongside the ink patterns. The doric word, GLISK has many connotations; ‘to catch a glimpse’ or ‘to glimmer’. When creating GLISK back in Aberdeen, we would often catch glimpses of gold on the street, or on the side of the building's plaques and signs.   The gold glimmers sit naturally within the piece but only enough to catch a glimpse of when the light is right.”

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