{"id":435,"date":"2014-01-14T15:34:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T15:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/?p=435"},"modified":"2014-03-13T10:29:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T10:29:08","slug":"winter-news-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/2014\/01\/winter-news-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter News 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Solo Exhibition at The Rendezvous Gallery in Aberdeen<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Rise-Life-Beijing-2.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-443\" title=\"High Rise Life, Beijing\" src=\"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Rise-Life-Beijing-2-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Rise-Life-Beijing-2-245x300.jpg 245w, http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Rise-Life-Beijing-2-367x450.jpg 367w, http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/High-Rise-Life-Beijing-2.jpg 783w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>\u2018Scotland Outside, China Within\u2019 <\/strong><\/span>commonly describes my mind set these days, in terms of my studio activity. It is also the title of my forthcoming solo exhibition at the Rendezvous Gallery in Aberdeen this coming Spring. This exhibition will combine new Beijing &amp; Xucun paintings inspired by my recent research in China in 2013 juxtaposed with work based on the beautiful North-East and South West coasts of Scotland. The exhibition runs from <strong>March 8th to April 5th<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/gallery.php\"><strong>Gallery<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0and the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/writing.php\"><strong>Writing<\/strong><\/a> sections of my website have all been brought up to date this month,whilst \u00a0I am especially pleased to present a preview of &#8216;Diary of Life&#8217; documentary \u00a0by Susie Song for CCTV in the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/film.php\">Film<\/a> <\/strong>section.<\/p>\n<p>I am beginning a new Artist\u2019s page in Facebook, which will feature more news of day to day studio activities ,views from The Bridge, Ipad drawings and so forth. I will add a link when it is up and running.<\/p>\n<p>Signed copies of the exhibition publication from<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> \u2018Walk Through Resonant Landscape\u2019 <\/span>can be purchased for \u00a312 + P&amp; P. contact me <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/contact\/\">here <\/a><\/strong>to arrange payment and postage.\u00a060 pages of colour pictures and essays in English and Mandarin.<\/p>\n<h2>Artist-in-Residence for the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge<\/h2>\n<p>The Forth Estuary Transport Authority ( FETA) have commissioned me this year as their Artist-in-Residence to mark the 50th anniversary of the Forth Road Bridge. Activities will include the production of a limited edition commemorative print; large scale drawing, film and sound research, culminating in the exhibition\u00a0\u2018Zero to Fifty: The Road Bridge Diaries\u2019\u00a0which will open at Hopetoun House in South Queensferry during the Edinburgh Festival and be a key event for the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/www.forthbridgesfestival.com\">Forth Bridges Festival<\/a> in September 2014. An extended interview recorded in December 2013 relating to the Bridge Residency can be heard through &#8216;clips&#8217; section of the BBC Radio Scotland Shereen programme on the BBC website.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Image2.jpg\" class=\"thickbox no_icon\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\" Zero to Fifty II\" src=\"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Image2-692x273.jpg\" alt=\"charcoal on primed paper 85 x 170cm 2013\" width=\"692\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Solo Exhibition at The Rendezvous Gallery in Aberdeen \u2018Scotland Outside, China Within\u2019 commonly describes my mind set these days, in terms of my studio activity. It is also the title of my forthcoming solo exhibition at the Rendezvous Gallery in Aberdeen this coming Spring. This exhibition will combine new Beijing &amp; Xucun paintings inspired [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458,"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions\/458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.katedownie.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}