Sarah Forrest was invited to spend time in our recently refurbished and renovated on site accommodation, the Gardener’s Cottage. Sarah invited her nephew Ruairidh to join her and together they spent four days working on a collaborative film commission for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
The film explores Ruairidh’s experience of ADHD and combines animation, video footage and spoken word recordings to explore the idea that there is no correct way for the brain to work, but rather there is a wide range of ways that people perceive and respond to the world. Playing with filmic tropes, tricks and metaphors of invisibility the collaborative film will consider the question, ‘how can we be sure if we’re seeing or not seeing the same things as each other?’
During their stay at the Gardener’s Cottage they filmed, walked, drew, Ruairidh donned a very stylish chroma body suit, we ate fish and chips, spent a ridiculous amount of time editing, drank a lot of diet coke and got loads done!
The film will be presented as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
About the Artist
Sarah Forrest (born Dundee, 1981) lives and works in Glasgow, she graduated from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee (BA Hons Fine Art) in 2003 and the Glasgow School of Art (MFA) in 2010. Recent and upcoming exhibitions include (solo): Sarah Forrest, Supplement, London, 2014; Two solo shows, CCA Glasgow (with Mounira Al Solh), 2013; Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence, Supplement, London, 2012; P is for Protagonist, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, 2011; (group) I will wear a fabric guise / I will wear a plastic guise, with Victor and Hester and Virginia Hutchison, Dog Park, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2014; A Word on a Tree Like a Body as a Thing, curated by Federica Bueti for Open Systems, 2013; Next to Perplexed you, curated by Jan Verwoert, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, 2013; You Blink at the Plughole, M.E.X.I.C.O, Leeds, 2013; that now, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand 2013; unsmoothmaking, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, 2013; Playing with undead things, Kortrijk, Belgium, 2012; Magic Love Trade Objects, Art Geneve, Geneva, 2012.
