ALICE HERRICK

In October 2017 Herrick Gallery held an exhibition of paintings by Edinburgh based artist, Ian Healy.

Alice Herrick, the gallery director, invited KEELERTORNERO to set up studio in the gallery and make small sculptures in response to Healy’s paintings. The idea for this juxtaposition was to create a bridge between the two disciplines of painting and sculpture, and between Healy and KEELERTORNERO, who had never met or seen each other’s work before the show.

The original idea was to work with air-dried or modelling clay, mediums Alice has been working with for some years now and was keen to collaborate with on this project. The task time was limited to a week, as the work had to be ready for the artists’ talk and private view at the gallery. With this in mind they decided to use plaster and other materials more familiar to them to create witty character models inspired by the subjects in Healy’s paintings. These models were then painted and they then also made small 2-D paintings of the models, so that there was a continuation of the chain of response. Alice meanwhile worked alongside them making a clay chess set based on the characters and motifs in Healy’s work.

The plan is to continue this collaboration and making small-scale clay sculptures in response to imagery within KEELERTORNERO’s paintings.