Claire Brewster

14 Mar 2013

Let there be light part II

At the same time as discovering the Frank Gehry lights I discovered these amazing Garden lights by Jorge Pardo. It must be the time of year, as I am craving light. These are in the Fairchild Botanical Garden in Coral Gables, and I've just realised they were there when I was in Miami last year, damm! how could I have missed them. They are there until March, so if you are going to be near by in the next couple of weeks a must see I would say.

Images via 1301 PE Gallery

11 Mar 2013

Let there be light

I came across these Frank Gehry fish lights and fell a little bit in love with them. He has captured the fish so beautifully, the way light catches on the scales of a fish when it's under water.

It would be lovely to have one of them in my living room, I'll keep dreaming.

Images from Gagosian Gallery

28 Feb 2013

The Caledonian Hotel - a commission

I realised I hadn't posted about this, very remiss of me, but things got a little hectic last year and somehow it got lost in the mix.

So better late than never!

Last year I was commissioned to make 4 pieces of work for the Salon Prive in the new Galvins restaurant in the refurbished Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh.

The commission was to produce 4 pieces based around the seasons, with a food element.

These are the pieces I produced. I haven't made it up to Edinburgh to see them in situ yet, but hope to this year. I used birds that were either native to Scotland or migrate to Scotland, and used maps of Scotland, trying to match the colours with the season.

The first is Autumn

Autumn © Claire Brewster 2012

I used geese for Autumn as they migrate from Russian to Scotland in the Autumn.

Autumn © Claire Brewster 2012

Then we have Winter

Winter © Claire Brewster 2012

I chose Pheasants to represent Winter as that is the hunting season for them. And they are such beautiful birds, particularly the male. I use a WW2 map for this, which I thought had sort of wintery colours.

Winter © Claire Brewster 2012

Then Spring

Spring © Claire Brewster 2012

I chose an Osprey for Spring as they migrate to Scotland in the Spring and they were endangered but now their numbers are increasing.

Spring © Claire Brewster 2012

And finally Summer

Summer © Claire Brewster 2012

The obvious choice for Summer was grouse, they are an iconic Scottish bird and also Summer is the season when they are hunted

Summer © Claire Brewster 2012

Summer @ Claire Brewster 2012

24 Feb 2013

Free Bird -Wall plates

One of the hardest commissions I have ever done was designing a set of plates for Non Sans Raison. You can read my posts about it here.

Now I think about it, I'd quite like to design another set as I can see how I could do it better and would make sure I enjoyed it this time.

Any way here are some photos that I received from Non Sans Raison of the plates installed in a couple of different locations. I originally thought they should be on white, but I quite like them on the dark blue.

21 Feb 2013

Corinthia Hotel

I have blogged about the commission I did for the Corinthia Hotel before it but didn't have any really good images of the piece installed. Well now I have, I got a really great photographer Rosario, you can see more of her work here, to take the photos.

We went along early one morning to the Corinthia to take the photos. It's quite a challenging site and the light is quite difficult and it's a working hotel, and we had to be very discreet so as not to disturb the guests.

Here are the images, I'm very happy with them, it's a very beautiful location to have a piece of work and the people that worked there were really helpful and very charming.

19 Feb 2013

The Harbingers - Manchester Art Gallery

I've posted lots of photos of the Harbingers before but I've never had any of the whole thing, so it's good to have some finally. These were taken during the First Cut exhibition at Manchester Art Gallery. The exhibition is over now, but the exhibition will touring later in the year, so there will be another opportunity to see the Harbingers again.

15 Feb 2013

Why did it have to rain today

We've had a lot of rain in the UK recently (2012 was the second wettest on record or something like that), so rain has been a lot on my mind so it's probably no surprise that I made this piece of work.

I used parakeets and a map charting the rainfall in the British Isles. There are a lot of parakeets living in London, they seem to thrive despite the cold and rain. They always seems slightly incongruous and exotic to be living in London.

The piece is for sale though TAG Fine Arts, click here to see more and buy.

Why did it rain today (c) Claire Brewster

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