Jackie Donachie

Jackie is the resadent artist at Bellahuoston Park this year and is considering on making something that gives the frelling of fleeting. (Jackie often thinks of a frelling or a emotion to give hur work)
She likes seeing things that have been adapted in mordern life, eg. a band stand- No bands being played now, so its use has changed to being a shelter for poeple to sit under out of the rain.

In hur elear work she also used the concept of things seen in every day life, but not apperashated. She did this in a exebition called Dear wifes, where she painted the floor a bright yellow and attatched scafilting poles to the floor, like single cimbing frams (Didnt realy understand this work very much, to me the room seemed to bright, and didnt realy understand why scaflding poles joined together had a in depth meaning)

Another pice of hur work, that I found interesting was 'South'. This was a large round polished disc which was heated, she wanted to allow the viewer to relaxe and ly around it, as when she went to visit the sight it was mid winter and everyone was hudling around each other. Thus hur wanting to give hur work a relaxed feel to it, also alowing the viewers to sit and hang out around it.
On the opening night she boroed a massive snake to place on it which turned a frew heads.
I really liked this pice of hur work.
It is simple and realy cliverly tought out. I like how she had a snake on it on the opening. It gives me the thought of something which could be cold polished concert some life to it, with the warmth invinting pepole to relxe, and haveing the snak on it on the opaning, gives me the impreshion of the heat inside the disc moving around cashouley/slowley, almost surging as the snake moves around it.

In hur talk she also talked about a building in Inverness (hospital) that she was asked to help desing some art work for.
She found intersting pices of old hospital equipment and photograghted them, then put them on these large wall mounted light boxes in pairs. I liked this because the objects were really nice photografes, but creepie is the same way as you didnt know what they could have been used for.
She also used hur bigh disc here in the main garden of the building (she designed the main garden, as well as a kitchen area, and a setting area made from timber form a wood shop at the bottom of the bilding sight)

She also worked with a lady called Cristen Burk who was also an artist/sculpoer. She designed the abstract pices of work inspered from the Feshie river, Glen Affric, clowdes and some more. These were very abstracted, and brightly coluered. There were like a fram, just giveing very little information on what they were showing. The coulers chosen for them realted to the photografe that they were taken from, eg. the Freshie river, the water boiles looked orange there for this fram was orange.

(couldnt find any picture's on the web, but she has some books out)