Invited Installation Artists

Creative adventure, the encouragement to take risks, and the freedom to fail, are all crucial to the continuing success of the S.S.A.

It could be said that these principles have been embraced with growing prominence through the positive support of installation art, initiated by SSA President George Wyllie in the late ï80Ís. Successive Presidents and their councils since that time have nurtured the growth of these genre, reflecting both the unpredictable times in which we live and the ever widening definition of what actually constitutes Art.

A formal, simplistic definition of Installation could be said that it defines the space between objects, as different from "traditional" sculpture which inhabits space.

In reality, this art form engages all our senses. Installations in past SSA shows have been grown, crawled through, short-circuited, stank, balanced, flickered, and made an amazing cacophony of sounds. Ingenuity and awareness are two dominant criteria by which the council (all working Artists) select installation proposals, a full 6 months in advance of the annual show. The quality of this yearÍs submission was better than ever: the final selection is fantastic. DonÍt miss it!

The Artists selected in this category were as follows:

Amanda Couch. Sets for a city
Architecture from paper, playing on the contradictions of rendering the monumental from the ephemeral material of paper.

Richard Ducker. Store
Sculptures based around the idea of the fetishization of technology, exploring our emotional dependency on objects used for everyday communication. A related series of paintings based on human dysfunction through viruses and infection.

Ruth Montada. Blueprint
A communal, celebratory piece of work, exploring the nature of "print" and of human identity in its widest sense. Reminiscent of performance, this work is both process and site oriented.

Jon Pengelly. Domestic Comforts & Pleasures
Using cast rubber and domestic laminates, this work is concerned with the ubiquitous and pervasive nature of an ever expanding consumer market.

Peter Russell. A Scots Reliquary
Nine "unreliable" significant relics associated with the most mythologised figures of Scottish cultural identity, this plinth mounted work is placed throughout the gallery in positions which correspond to their found or associated locations.

Avril Kathleen Sadler. cissbury no.14
A large panel work, embracing the two disciplines of archaeology and art. Objects seen, yet remaining obscure; embedded within layers of beeswax and alluding to the nature of stratification.