shadows fade new solo show

shadows fade opened at the arches and i'm pretty pleased with the results so far. this body of work is only half way through so lots of work still ahead before i'll feel completely satisfied and then time to show it all in more of a purpose built installation as originally envisioned. check the following link for a recent interview on juxtapoz magazine that gives an overview of where im at www.juxtapoz.com/Richard+Scarry/12145-mike-inglis-the-man-behind-spaceboy

shadows fade new solo show

"For his new Arches show, Inglis goes back to his original printmaking and street paste-ups. Shadows Fade – titled after a headstone inscription in Inglis’ Scottish seaside town – focuses on death, grief and spiritualism.
Inglis digs into his own family history and draws inspiration from his spiritualist great aunt and bereaved grandmother who witnessed the accidental death of her five-year-old daughter. Exploring the artist’s own frustrations with spiritualism and the fragile metaphysical landscape people inhabit as they try to cope with loss, Inglis’ human-scale paste-ups present the little girl happily running with a Native American headdress or staring at a dog’s skeleton above the family’s 1930 china cabinet. Spectators might remember the installation from this summer’s Rough Cut Nation, whose poster was also adorned by Inglis’ spaceboy." Adeline Amar at the Skinny

" Throughout Barron Taylor Street, a much used but neglected alley of access parallel to the city’s High Street, a series of works by urban artists have injected new life into the surroundings. The element of discovery in these pieces leads the viewer into previously unseen corners and presents a more urban conception of life in the Highland capital. The tribal aspect of these works is global in scope and distinctly youth orientated – an exciting addition to the more formal elements of the Streetscaping project.

Edgy and contemporary, the human portrait elements in this collection of works makes them instantly accessible while the more stylised human/animal hybrid figures and elements of Native American dress take on a more totemic or clannish meaning. The graffiti is simultaneously an expression of alternative counter culture and of the need to belong." GEORGINA COBURN evaluates the Re-Imagining The Centre public art event in Inverness

photos ewen weatherspoon [info@ewphoto.co.uk]

inverness graffiti artists DUFI invited myself and 3 other contemporary urban artists [were all rough cut buddies] to take part in re-imagining the centre 2 the second city wide inverness arts festival. we brought a cutting edge to the surfaces of Baron Taylors Street in the Old Town for their project IN HONOUR OF SEPTEMBER where we were all treated like royalty by our hosts finn and al who couldnt have been kinder or more hospitable if they tried. it was a blast...mike inglis, martin mcguiness, kirsty whiten, ritchie cumming, and the irrepressible DUFI.
photos ewen weatherspoon [info@ewphoto.co.uk]

inkubatorII at durham artist book show

transmit 01.02.03 - only just got round to binding and bundling up the last 20 of each of these 50 original sets hand made books

two new altered books produced for the bunker installation of INKUBATOR II at Durham Art Gallery and DLI Museum.
southpaw was altered simply by shooting the book and adding minimal text; guerilla was deconstructed and overprinted with left wing texts by tom wintringham and art school theory from walter gropius as well as anarchist texts.

Rough Cuts part 2 from National Galleries of Scotland on Vimeo.

Rough Cut Nation: from start to finish from National Galleries of Scotland on Vimeo.

ROUGH CUT NATION. A LARGE SCALE COLLABORATIVE TAKEOVER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY BY A GROUP OF CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS. rough cut documentary by beanland films and time lapse by rich cumming with music by tut vu vu with some of my contribution to rough cut nation at the scottish national portrait gallery - the portrait of "buffalo girl" catherine moore my aunt who died aged 5 in a tragic accident. this piece starts to develop new themes using a 'china cabinet shrine' installation exploring death, grief and spiritualism from a very personal scottish perspective. this piece work will be developed into a new body of work later this year. the rest of my contribution consisted of human scale paste ups embedded with the other artists work all around the gallery. this was the most rewarding part of the experience, working so closely with the other artists in a hugely collaborative manner.

new pieces of work produced as artist books or assemblages based around the deconstructed novels of anais nin

solo show transmit at the red door gallery in victoria street edinburgh

contain screenprint from the solo show at the DCA in dundee

the book and pharmaceutical bottles bring in a time based aspect to the experience allowing me to explore many different elements of non traditional narrative.

the original artwork produced during the projects become new graffitti icons and are placed into the street completing a cycle and linking diverse location from rome and venice to dundee and edinburgh

the cigar box shrines develop themes which celebrate new contemporary graffiti icons as street culture replacements for their older religious counterparts. the boxes explore our fascination for religious artefacts or symbols of belief and the interchangeable nature of many of these different faiths.

a few artist books and one box assemblage. junky is a based on the auto-biographical writings of william burroughs. hunger explores intimate relationships using found flyers, polaroid photos and a deconstructed anais nin novel. frontier explores social protest using a deconstructed book which details the attempts of east berlins citizens to escape over the wall overprinted by graffitti and german tourist phrasebook statements. time traveller explores relationships and childhood.