Choir by Malcolm Middleton
"There's a bear in my bed
Wanting to be loved
Eyes like marbles
All he needs is a hug, all he needs is a hug"
black layer of a screen print
All You Good Good People
all five layers screen printed
All You Good Good People
screen printed on top of the original photograph
fence image; an A3 sized linocut
There is another world, there is a better world
linocut printed on to a mirror, around which a doorframe was built.
There is another world...
this time with the door open. My plan was to paint on a board at the back, within the frame, but this didn't end up happening. Instead a photograph has been
inserted, using Photoshop.
They Are Also Us
Twenty-One sheets of A3 size acetate each with a linocut fence image on,
sellotaped together and held up.
the background landscape without the acetate linocut image
acetate image shown close up
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free
my project was about the Hostile Environment, which is a political policy used to deter immigrants, but in my view it is a disgrace.
I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free is a song by Nina Simone.
my animation (these are screen shots) showed the feet at the top of the screen marching in a pattern based on the razor wire which tops the fences at Dungavel Immigrant Removal Centre.
the political policies are a nightmare, but I wanted to give my animation a happy ending, and used a photograph of a knight in shining armour (Robert The Bruce, from the battlefield at Bannockburn) to give us some hope.
Foam at Greenbank Garden is in this photograph. I used it to show a sense of victory, triumph, celebration.
putting the feet on a photograph of razor wire; the photograph layer was then deleted leaving only the feet.
The feet represent material poverty, and innocence; if you've got nothing you've got nothing to hide. Putting them walking showed a journey, and how it isn't simple or straightforward, how sometimes progress means going backwards and starting again, looping around.
