Artist talks the language of spirits, plants and toadstools
5 years ago
BRAZILIAN artist Daniel Lie unveils a new environmental installation that is part of The Negative Years, an exhibition of his work at Jupiter Artland in West Lothian. It features a series of creations utilising raw materials sourced from the Jupiter Artland grounds, including flora, wool, clay and wood. Mr Lie said: “To create this exhibition I collaborated with non-human beings such as the fungi queendom, bacteria, plants, elements, spirits and deities. How can these others beings give us agency? How do they communicate with us once they don’t share our wordcentric language? With the invisible layers that are also present in the spaces can we think about a geography of smells, sounds, emotions, and even a geography of agencies?” The exhibition runs from tomorrow until July 14.
10 years ago
FRANK Skinner will appear as a guest star in the new series of Doctor Who. The comedian, who is a huge fan of the long-running sciencefiction series, will appear on screen this autumn alongside Peter Capaldi who is playing the latest incarnation of the hero time lord in an episode by Being Human writer Jamie Mathieson. Skinner said: “I love this show. I subscribe to Doctor Who magazine, I’ve got a Tardis ringtone, a five-foot cardboard Dalek in my bedroom and when I got the call saying they wanted me to read for the part, I was in the back of my tour bus watching episode three of The Sensorites. I am beyond excited.”
25 years ago
SERIOUS gaps are evident in the availability of specialist independent advice on education for parents and young people, a survey has shown, writes William Tinning. The study of 70 independent advice agencies – ranging from national to locally based services and the Citizens Advice network – highlights a general lack of provision, a lack of specialist knowledge, a restricted range of advice services, and increasing demand for education advice. The report – titled Independent Education Advice Provision for Parents in Scotland, organised by the Scottish Consumer Council – outlines several reasons why voids in specialist independent education advice need to be bridged.
50 years ago
GLASGOW might not seem the natural habitat of ecologists, but a bus-load of leading European conservationists were happy to be let loose on the Linn Park nature trail the other day. They were taking a natural break from an international conference now being held at Croftamie, Dunbartonshire, on the theme, “the impact of an industrial area in a natural setting”. After an afternoon’s inspection of urban haunts of coot and tern, from Victoria Park to Pollok, they had nothing but admiration for Glasgow’s great outdoors. AS one Scandinavian conservationist put it: “There was much more of nature than I expected.”
100 years ago
ABOUT 120 delegates from all parts of the United Kingdom met in Glasgow yesterday for the annual conference of the Association of Officers of Taxes under the chairmanship of Mr Leslie N Punter, president. Among the resolutions passed was one calling upon the government to re-introduce the Officers’ Regulation Bill. Dissatisfaction was expressed at the government’s decision to refer the question of civil rights for civil servants to a non-political and non-partisan committee, and the opinion was put forward that the Labour Government should have acted in accordance with their longestablished principles and put into operation without further delay the policy of full civil rights for servants of the state.