'Replica' story -first ideas

Potentially Finished ( Or very near finished) LGBT

Above: two potential Generations

Ice Child

Further LGBT History Month

Above: possible finals for Bill & Coo

Above: three possible options for Dissection

Above: three options for Spitting Tumours

LGBT History Month Scotland

Bill and Coo

Generations

Ice Child

Zizzi, Royal Exchange First Round Ideas

Of the themes suggested for the project the ones which appealled the most  were that of GoMA and the Telephone exchange - the second making me think of speech, dialect and the Glasgow Patter.  This resulted in some initial ideas for ' Your Patter's like Water'; The course of the River Clyde and tributaries are plotted by phrases and words peculiar to the City.  These might refer literally to eating and drinking ( 'snashter', 'swally',' get it doon yer thrapple')  or they might be a more metaphorical form of rhyming slang or patter ( ' he's totally gas-cookered' [snookered], ' a face like a burst tomato!')

A site-visit confirmed that the current building was previously Borders' bookshop. Having traded on the site for almost 20 years, the bookshop was synonymous with the building and much-loved by locals. Recognising the obvious relation to dialect, patter and writing I pursued this as a new theme.  I investigated Glasgow-associated novelists, poets, playwrights and seminal books; particularly looking for those with interesting titles and book-jackets ( and would also tie in with the green, grey, maroon and yellow palette).

 I would want to reproduce these in a trompe l'oiel but simplified, hand-drawn style retaining pencil/pen marks. The pillars and wrought-iron-work in and around GoMA and the Royal Exchange- and the iconic, perpetually-cone-headed statue of the Duke of Wellington- also feature. 

These ideas together could be adapted for various walls in the site.  The book jackets would work well inside the provided picture frames and the Clyde-Patter would draw the eye round any space.  This said Art wall 5 on 1st floor  would be my preference:

 

Theme Image (can be orientated up or down) Pastel Neon and Stocking Fillers 24/10/12

Black, Gold and Silver, White and Pattern 23/10/12