CHRIS FREMANTLE

Edinburgh Volume #5 at Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture
The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL +44 (0) 131 225 6671 http://www.royalscottishacademy.org
On 7 August 2009  START 19:30  END 21:30  DOOR £5, £3 concession (includes refreshments)

Places are limited: to book e-mail studiodub@mac.com

To compliment their two  “Lyrical Abstraction” exhibitions of sculpture (see http://www.culture24.org.uk/spliced/art69969) in the interiors and gardens of William and Robert Adam’s Mellerstain House 14th June – 30th Sep. 2009, and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House 15th Aug. – 31st Oct. 2009 as part of the Japan UK 150 Festival, Kate Thomson and Hironori Katagiri of Ukishima Sculpture Studio, in association with architects Gordon Duffy and Rebecca Wober of Studio DuB,  have organised a pecha kucha on the theme of relationships between Art & Architecture.
Pecha kucha is a great fun idea started in Tokyo a couple of years ago by Mark Dytham and Astrid Klein – two architect friends of sculptors Kate Thomson & Hironori Katagiri. It has gone viral and is now on in over 218 cities around the world.

Participants show 20 slides for strictly 20 seconds each, meaning that the audience experiences an exhilarating high speed journey through a kaleidoscope of inspirations, ideas and work, with the concise nature of the presentations keeping the interest level high. 6min40 seconds each means there is the opportunity to introduce more interesting speakers and still have time to move around and talk to each other over a drink during the interval and afterwards.

See http://www.pecha-kucha.org/cities/edinburgh/5 for more information.

Featuring presentations by…
Jock McFadyen, painter http://www.jockmcfadyen.com
Hironori Katagiri, sculptor  http://www.ukishima.net
Kate Thomson, sculptor  http://www.ukishima.net
Calum Colvin, multi media artist  http://www.calumcolvin.com
Charlie Sutherland, architect: Sutherland Hussey  http://www.sutherlandhussey.co.uk
Gordon Duffy + Rebecca Wober, architects: Studio DuB http://www.studiodub.co.uk
Dan Brown: Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop http://www.edinburghsculpture.org
Alastair Clark, Assistant Director: Edinburgh Printmakers http://www.edinburgh-printmakers.co.uk
Michelle de Bruin, sculptor http://www.artist.org.uk
Elaine Alison and Pat Bray, sculptors http://www.allisonandbray.com
Chris Fremantle, environmental art producer and researcher