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Stillness in Movement – exhibition: Antuireann Arts Centre – 2004<\/strong>
\nMarch 21 2011<\/p>\n

A multi-media installation \u2013 An Tuireann Art Centre, Oct. to mid-Nov. 2004<\/strong> With subsidy from the Scottish Arts Council, Hi-Arts, An Tuireann Arts Center<\/p>\n

This article was written in 2004 before the work illustrated here was produced<\/p>\n

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\ntitle: neither movement from nor towards no.2 (2004) dimensions: 122 x 157 cms media: oil on mounted board<\/p>\n

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The creation of this multi-media installation will cover research and practice in contemporary music, visual art and Eastern philosophy.
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\nThis installation will create a unique opportunity to consolidate many years of practice as a composer and painter by researching and developing a method for realising inspiration that is capable of expressing similar ideas in both music and painting. This method will develop from research into the philosophical principles within the practices of Buddhism and how these can translate into a personal approach to my own work. My research will bring together the art forms of painting and composition, which will interact with philosophy and cross-cultural influences from the East and West. It is my hope that new creative freedoms will emerge from this research, enabling me to relinquish many of the controls and expectations that I have brought to my work within the general ethos and history of Western art culture. This exploration of how Buddhist principles can enrich my work will hopefully bring with it a new quality, dynamism and energy, enabling me to explore my inspiration in increasingly new, personal and original ways.
\nWhy?<\/p>\n

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\ntitle: neither movement from nor towards no.3 (2004) dimensions: 221 x 81 cms media: oil on mounted board<\/p>\n

Over recent months I have developed an interest in the philosophy and practices of Buddhism and am keen to research how this philosophy can develop my practice as an artist and composer by unifying the techniques and intentions of my work.<\/p>\n

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There are two main areas that interest me in Buddhism \u2013 impermanence, and the influence of the ego on creative actions. Impermanence deals with the ever-changing nature of all things; the action of the ego deals with the exercise of control and manipulation of matter and events. I feel that these two aspects of philosophy offer new creative opportunities and disciplines that would greatly develop my work.
\nIt is not my intention to write religious music or create icons in visual art, nor do I wish to make superficial observations of Buddhism as a religion. Instead, I wish to research how the notions of impermanence and lessening egoic action can enrich my own creative language and development, in a very personal way.<\/p>\n

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\ntitle: movement towards no.4 (2004) dimensions: 122 x 92 cms media: oil on mounted board<\/p>\n

Music<\/strong>
\nI wish to devise a music generating process where a number of elements – pitches, dynamics, rhythmic patterns, durations, etc., will combine and recombine in continually differing ways. The rates of change and factors governing permutations will be organised by a set of numbers that will be generated randomly. The result of this will be to create a sound structure that, like chaos theory, is made up of small units of similar things that combine to create larger units of similar things. A further analogy is to see the structure as an organism: the membrane of the organism acts as the parameter of possibility \u2013 the pitches, rhythms, durations etc. – the inside of the organism is where all these elements are permutated through the action of the random numbers. Like sculpture, music that results from these processes can be viewed from many different perspectives.<\/p>\n