Glenfiddich is pleased to announce the full line up for this years Artists in Residence programme from 1 June to 30 September 2000.

2009 will again include participants from around the world and for the first time Glenfiddich are pleased to welcome an artist from India.

Another innovation for this year will see their first ‘remote’ resident . Due to new visa regulations the American artist MP Landis will be unable to join them in Dufftown this summer but will instead will remain in America to work in collaboration with Programme curator Andy Fairgrieve, their New York based brand ambassador, Heather Greene as well as the other 2009 residents on a body of work for exhibitions both here at The Glenfiddich Distillery over the summer and in New York towards the end of the year.

Full details of the exhibition schedule will follow in due course.
 
The Artists in detail:

Arabella Campbell – Canada

Arabella Campbell lives and works in Vancouver. She has a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia (1996) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr Institute of Art and the San Francisco Art Institute (2002). Campbell’s practice is rooted in the studio and attends to a range of media. Calling attention to the white cube, the context of the art exhibition and the medium itself, Campbell’s practice is consistently self-reflexive and produced with formal clarity. Her practice is informed by site-specific studies and conceptual based strategies, resulting in formally attentive works that are concerned with the fundamental structures of representation, as they are manifest in materials, language and place. Her work ranges across media from photographs of monochromatic interventions in the landscape, to paintings that attempt to calibrate from memory the precise shade of white paint used by three different art institutions upon their gallery walls, to ephemeral interventions that explore places of art production and presentation. Campbell will continue to expand upon these ideas and methodologies during her time in residence at the Glenfiddich Distillery.

www.catrionajeffries.com/b_a_campbell_works



Blue Firth – UK

Born in Nottingham and currently studying at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, Blue has a long-standing interest in the nature of local communities and how their history is recorded through vernacular crafts and practices. Through research of local history and customs, she seeks out arcane and often neglected information with which she aims to rediscover the forgotten character of a place. Applying this research-based practice to her time in residence Blue anticipates weaving these local elements of craft, history and folklore into a series of collaborative re-enactment and site-specific works. Her work has been shown extensively across the UK and northern Europe.

www.mootgallery.org/sswk6.htm


Alex Frost – UK

Born in London in 1973 now based in Glasgow, Alex Frost studied fine art at Staffordshire University (BA 1995) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA 1998). His recent solo shows include: ‘Adults’ (Sandra Burgel, Berlin); Milton Keynes Gallery; ‘BBQ’ (Artsway, Hampshire); ‘Compassion Fatigue’ (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow), and ‘Format Wars’ (Tramway, Glasgow). In 2009 Frost was shortlisted for the Jerwood Sculpture Prize and selected for a group presentation by Artsway for the forthcoming Venice Biennale. Frost has also devised and run a number of projects collaboratively, notably, the artist-run radio station Radio Tuesday (1998 - 2002) with Duncan Campbell and Mark Vernon. He has also curated a number of exhibitions, most recently the exhibition ‘run run’ at the Collins Gallery, Glasgow (curated with Sorcha Dallas), for Glasgow International Contemporary Art Festival (2008). Alex plans to use his residency time to develop a new range of methods and ideas focusing on the parallels between art and whisky connoisseurship, continuing to expand his established interests in consumer sophistication, social structure, time and craft

www.alexfrost.com


MP Landis - North America

M.P. Landis lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His current work is a palimpsest of the processes, materials and emotions of his existence. Location, weather, season, personal mood and daily experiences all shape his work without force or thought. The artist accepts the organic nature of this process and allows it to take control. He has collaborated with musician Tom Abbs, visual artists Michael Sanzone and Les Seifer, poets Nick Flynn and Fred Schmalz, and others.

Landis has taught at the summer workshop program at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA. He is the Creative Consultant for the mentoring program Project Eye-To-Eye, and is Art Director at ESP-Disk' Records. He regularly exhibits at the Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown, MA; m55 Art in Long Island City, Queens, NY; and with the international traveling artists' group VERN. His work is represented in many private and public collections, including the New York Public Library, the Peabody Essex Museum, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art, the DeCordova Museum, the Naples Museum of Art, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Before moving to Brooklyn in 1996, he lived year-round in Provincetown, MA, and spent his childhood traveling around the world with his Mennonite missionary parents. He is the father of a baby daughter, Beulah Rose, born in February 2009.

www.mplandis.com


Anirban Mitra – India

Born 1981 Calcutta India, Anriban obtained a Bachelor & Master Degree of Fine Art, from Kala Bhavana, Visva. In the early 1990’s he was a awarded a number of bronze and silver awards in the International Children’s Art Exhibition organised by the Nippon Television Network, of Japan. More recently he was also granted an award by the Kolkata Art Foundation as well as a number of scholarships. His work has been included in a number of group exhibitions and is represented in collections held in both Japan and the United States. In his work Anirban seeks to represent the co-existence of different realities by a juxtaposition of readymade images or signs taken from popular culture. Through which he attempts to reveal a play of detached signifiers where the relationship between two images is left unclear. During his residency Anriban plans an installation to reflect the relationship between the people of Scotland & the people of India. The focus of this work will concentrate on the marrying together two textiles of traditional appreance, one from Scotland the other from India, to act as signifiers for the two countries.

Dathini Mzayiya – South Africa

Born 1979. Queenstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa. Dathini is a founding member of several South African art initiatives such as the Gugulective art and education collective and City Skin, a public space design project, whose current activates include an art and healing programme at Brooklyn Chest Hospital in Millerton. His education has seen him complete studies in business management, advertising and graphic design as well as art workshops both in South Africa and central Europe. His work has been exhibited in a number of group and two person shows across the African continent and Europe. Working in a number of media including oil, charcoal, video and sound. His practice and execution displays a strong interest in community involvement and is inspired by everyday life experience, family and friends, work environments, social gatherings and the cultures of communities and its complexities. With a strong belief in the philosophy where “each one teaches one”. Dathini is passionate about skills transferring and is keen to use his residency time to explore the culture of north east Scotland through local interaction.


www.asai.co.za/dathinimzayiya


Jun jieh Wang – Taiwan

Born in 1963 in Taipei, Taiwan. Jun-Jieh Wang graduated from the Department of Visual Communication of the HdK Art Academy in Berlin in 1984. He received the Hsiung-Shih New Artists Award. Around that time, he began working with video and installation and became one of the pioneers of video art in Taiwan. He has participated in several major exhibitions since 1997, including the 47th Venice Biennale and the Asia Pacific Triennial in Queenstand, Australia. In 2000, Jun-Jieh Wang was selected by the prestigious Japanese art magazine "Bijutsu Techo" as one of the "100 notable artists in 2000". In 2002, Wang was the subject of Japan's NHK documentary " Asian Who's Who", which was aired on NHK's global channel. Jun-Jieh Wang now lives and works in Taipei. He also teaches at the graduate school of applied arts at National Chiao Tung University and the graduate school of arts and technology at Taipei National University of the Arts. The artist in residence programme will provide the time for Jun Jieh to create a series of works derived from the influence of Marcel Duchamp, utilising the natural landscape around Dufftown as a background.

www.digiarts.org.tw/ShowArtist.aspx?lang=en&CA_GROUP=R2&CR_NO=70 –



Qi Xing – China

Born in Tangshan, Hebei province P.R.C. 1982. Qi Xing went on to graduate from the oil painting department of Beijing Central Academy Fine Arts in 2005. Recent group exhibitions have seen his work displayed across China as well as Taiwan and North America As a realistic painter he employs traditional methods to depict the constant universals of human existence, birth, death, life and hope. Qi Xing firmly believes that the ancient practice of painting is still a more than adequate media in which the modern human experience can be expressed. With a strong interest in the environment and an awareness of social changes occurring in his home land Qi welcomes the opportunity to travel to Scotland and experience the differences in culture and landscape while seeking to capture in his paintings the subtle seasonal transitions between summer and autumn. He also aims to create works which weaves together Scotch whisky, man and nature.