Phantom Limn and Figures/Cities
- Submitting institution
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University of Central Lancashire
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 23534
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Dovecot Gallery, Edinburgh
- Open access status
- -
- Month of first exhibition
- July
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- "This is a multi-component output, supported by contextual information and documentation. It identifies two specific components which incorporate collaborative practice and individual practice. It covers David Mackintosh’s experimental drawing projects and collaborative drawing collective, Phantom Limn initiated and directed by Mackintosh.
Mackintosh’s drawings are made using a long-established experimental stream of consciousness methodology. The work has a critical context and uses parody, irreverence, and humour to ridicule the contemporary world. The unique and original process facilitates a way of developing imagery that is varied, surprising and open-ended, which effortlessly represents complex thought, with a relationship to the subconscious, economy of effort and repetition. The practice is studio-based and incorporates works on paper, digital drawing, and a deconstructive approach to animation. Outputs from this area of research are exhibitions, publications, animations, and web-based projects.
Phantom Limn, is an ongoing practice-based collaboration, between artists whose work incorporate different systems of experimental drawing. It explores new and untested possibilities for drawing towards a more paragogic learning experience. Mackintosh initiated the collaboration to attempt to counter the pseudoscientific and academic version of drawing research espoused by the DRN (Drawing Research Network). He formed the collective with the aim of exploring the idea of instructions for drawing, which allow the collaborators involved to reflect on the often-implicit values that surround the pedagogy of drawing, and by extension, art more generally. The collective Phantom Limn undertook a residency at Dovecot Gallery in Edinburgh where they placed the production of drawing at the forefront of public exhibition. Under Mackintosh’s direction the artists constructed a large-scale wooden structure which received the work as it was made, this became the physical manifestation of the theoretical framework of the project, and the focus of reflection for the participants as well as the public. It also became the collaborative art object."
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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