Fixing: The Archive of Alan Dimmick
Moira Jeffrey
In Alan Dimmick’s photographs people make art, form bands, fall in love, tie their hair into new styles and drink beer from the bottle. They go to the beach, watch the seagulls watching them, and fall over on the sand. Children play their own mysterious, inexplicable games. Generations link hands. The tower blocks of Glasgow loom solid and implacable only to slump, horribly, like wounded bodies. Lichen grows over stone. The machair blooms in springtime. Nothing remains fixed.
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A Naturally Perspicacious View of the World
Jacqueline Donachie
Art has many essences. One of the rarest is the joy of being alive, a sumptuous wonder about the way people look, how they dress and pose themselves in public, fantasizing out loud, being bouquets of our strange, strange relation to life, each other, and this passing moment.
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The Gift of Time, (10 x 8, b/w)
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Secret histories documenting the ancient and modern tropes of contemporary Scottish culture including but not exclusively limited to the prehistoric, Neolithic, contemporary and futuristic tribes.
Ross Sinclair
Imagine you are living in the late 1970s. Let’s settle on 1978 for argument’s sake. Computers don’t exist. Digital culture is simply science fiction. The world wide web is just a nightmare in the fevered imagination of the arachnophobe. Jim Callaghan leads a popular Labour Government. This is about to change. Soon there will be a new kind of politician in 10 Downing Street; Scotland shudders. The first fixed and failed devolution referendum is still a year away.
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Here Comes Everybody
Francis McKee
Looking at these photos it becomes clear what an extraordinary enterprise underpins this body of work. Spanning nearly forty years, Alan Dimmick’s images document his personal life, the Scottish landscape, the changing urban terrain of Glasgow and the contemporary art scene in that city. To be more precise, the documentation of that art scene permeates all those other categories. And, again for the sake of precision, it’s not simply documentation of an art scene: rather it is documentation of a community.
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Fixing: The Archive of Alan Dimmick
Moira Jeffrey
In Alan Dimmick’s photographs people make art, form bands, fall in love, tie their hair into new styles and drink beer from the bottle. They go to the beach, watch the seagulls watching them, and fall over on the sand. Children play their own mysterious, inexplicable games. Generations link hands. The tower blocks of Glasgow loom solid and implacable only to slump, horribly, like wounded bodies. Lichen grows over stone. The machair blooms in springtime. Nothing remains fixed.
Read more...
A Naturally Perspicacious View of the World
Jacqueline Donachie
Art has many essences. One of the rarest is the joy of being alive, a sumptuous wonder about the way people look, how they dress and pose themselves in public, fantasizing out loud, being bouquets of our strange, strange relation to life, each other, and this passing moment.
Read more...
The Gift of Time, (10 x 8, b/w)
or
Secret histories documenting the ancient and modern tropes of contemporary Scottish culture including but not exclusively limited to the prehistoric, Neolithic, contemporary and futuristic tribes.
Ross Sinclair
Imagine you are living in the late 1970s. Let’s settle on 1978 for argument’s sake. Computers don’t exist. Digital culture is simply science fiction. The world wide web is just a nightmare in the fevered imagination of the arachnophobe. Jim Callaghan leads a popular Labour Government. This is about to change. Soon there will be a new kind of politician in 10 Downing Street; Scotland shudders. The first fixed and failed devolution referendum is still a year away.
Read more...
Here Comes Everybody
Francis McKee
Looking at these photos it becomes clear what an extraordinary enterprise underpins this body of work. Spanning nearly forty years, Alan Dimmick’s images document his personal life, the Scottish landscape, the changing urban terrain of Glasgow and the contemporary art scene in that city. To be more precise, the documentation of that art scene permeates all those other categories. And, again for the sake of precision, it’s not simply documentation of an art scene: rather it is documentation of a community.
Read more...
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