The Moving Sketchbook

 

 

RSA200 Moving Image Programme:

The Moving Sketchbook

Films based on artists’ sketchbooks and artworks in progress.

 

(Running time: 37 minutes) 

 

Film is not the means of expression primarily used by these RSA Academicians in their practice, but here they have explored their ideas and thinking with support from film and design practitioners. 

 

Will Maclean RSA and Andy Rice, Casa Berti, 2012 (16:15)  

Victoria Crowe RSA, Inflorescence, 2007 (5:00)  

Joyce Cairns PPRSA and Andy Rice, Fragments, 2006 (8:06)  

Kate Downie RSA, Drawing the Pibroch, 2010 (6:29)  

 

Will Maclean RSA, in partnership with graphic designer Andy Rice, explores the expansive sketchbook material from his Casa Berti project, producing a musical and poetic experience.  

Victoria Crowe RSA leads us, with simple page-turning, through her exquisitely crafted sketchbook developing her ideas about plants and mythology. 

Joyce Cairns PPRSA is supported by Andy Rice in exploring her monumental paintings, which contemplate personal family history and the World Wars of the 20th century. We are led through finished works and a range of photographic material that was her starting point and inspiration for these works.  

Kate Downie RSA’s film exploits the qualities of time lapse photography to produce a moving-image and time-based experience of the creation of a wall drawing being made in the RSA building that the viewer, later, would experience as a still and timeless image. 

 

Image: Joyce Cairns PPRSA and Andy Rice, Fragments, 2006 (still)

 

 

RSA200: Celebrating Together is a national programme marking the 200th anniversary of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture.

 

The RSA200: Moving Image Programme has been curated by painter and filmmaker Ronald Forbes RSA to showcase moving image work by Royal Scottish Academicians and RSA award winners. Reflecting artists’ moving image practice in Scotland from the past and present, it includes work from the RSA Collection and work being made today. 

 

The full programme has eight packages of moving image work on six different themes, with work by 26 artists. 

 

Full programme

 

Banner Image: Stills from the RSA200 Moving Image Programme - left to right: 

Oana Stanciu, Stai in banca ta/ Behave, Tim Sandys, North Platte, Ronald Forbes RSA, Only Make Believe, Tracy Mackenna RSA, Language, Listening and Belonging, Rachel Maclean RSA (Elect), The Lion and the Unicorn, Rachel McBrinn, Luigi Mecocci, via dei Velluti, Firenze, Edward Summerton RSA, Dighty Burn, Katri Walker, Rapture.