2021-24 Ghosts in the Garden ‘Ghosts in the Garden’ is an ongoing project.. From May 2021 I made an observational drawing from our home garden each day as a participant in ‘100 Day Droject Scotland’. These drawings formed the starting point of...
2021 Dwell 34 Abercromby PlaceEdinburgh EH3 6QEEmail: mail@openeyegallery.co.uk ‘Dwell’ is a body of work exploring personal history and living spaces. It begun in 2018 from an indelible childhood memory of Bushe’s from 1975 in Aberdeenshire....
2012-2013 Mergers and Monopolies In August 2011, Edinburgh College of Art was merged with the University of Edinburgh. What this meant for me was that the short courses department I coordinated at ECA was closed and its course programme were brought under management...
2009-2011 Fred My father Fred died in May 2009. Fred Bushe OBE, RSA was at the forefront of modernist sculpture and set up the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Aberdeenshire in the late 1970s. Fred’s ambition was to create a space where anyone, whether professional, a...
2002-2008 Cyprus In 2002, to escape academia I choose to spend a month as a student at the Cyprus College of Art in Lemba, near Pafos. The School was set up for international art students to come and make art free from administration and curriculum. It now runs summer...