David Martin
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What’s this? Two posts in two days?! You might be forgiven for wondering whether there is good reason for this lack of parsimony, dear readers. And there is. For I was informed on Monday evening that my work has been shortlisted for the inaugural Marcella Althaus-Reid Spoken Word Theology Competition. The competition, an element of
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It’s been a day of Impossible Journeys*. I’m sitting here basking in some of Paul Thomson‘s music to accompany Claire Askew‘s poem for the project, and I’ve also been absolutely loving Alastair Cook‘s film for my poem. All of which simply stokes my already considerable excitement about the fact it’s all going to come together
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Hidden Door is a brand new mini-festival of the arts that takes place at the end of this month. On 30 and 31 January, 30 bands, 40 artists, 10 poets and 10 film makers will take over the Roxy Art House in Edinburgh and transform the space with an art maze, hidden stages and innovative
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Time once again to highlight the blog of my good friend and sometime collaborator, the painter David Martin. Two years ago, he embarked on an epic tour of the middle east to gather material for his Salvesen award exhibition, following the trail of Hermes Trismegistus. His blog of that adventure proved him to be a
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Dropped by a wee gathering tonight at The Tun, the first throw in an fresh attempt to establish a self-sustaining network of Christians in the arts, media, entertainment and new media in Edinburgh. My friends Paul Thomson and the painter David Martin are behind this endeavour, a network that aims to encompass the blues and
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If you missed David Martin’s recent exhibition at the RSA, don’t despair, because there are images of the work from the show (including the “studio wall” collage) on his blog. I managed to get along to the RSA for a quick visit just before the exhibition ended. What struck me about the work was its
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Something else I had to miss because of Eilish’s sense of timing was the opening of the new show by painter David Martin: “The Cusp of Change: A Journey Through the Middle East“. This is Dave’s RSA show of work arising out of his Salvesen scholarship. There’s a lot of stuff from it appearing daily
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Dave Martin, who’s mentioned in this post, is about to embark on a year-long art project beginning with a trip from Egypt, through the Levant and into Eastern Europe and culminating in a show at the Royal Scottish Academy in 2007. You can follow his progress here.
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My friend and collaborator, the painter David Martin, has recently won a major Scottish art prize: the Alastair Salvesen travel scholarship. You can the work for his most recent exhibition at his sketchblog along with poems I wrote to accompany it.
Amy Jo Philip 