FUTURE - BRUCE - LUKE - CLAIRE

Saturday 25th August saw the opening of the Curiosity Cabinet with Stevie playing his songs. It was a well attended and intimate affair.




26 Bruce Street opened its doors to the public Tuesday to Thursday to view the Curiosity Cabinet and meet Nicola. Alan Grieve & Ross Riddock spent time in the shop on Thursday afternoon to discuss the Abbeyview artists interventions. After its time in Dunfermline city centre, the Cabinet will be on display at Woodmill High School, Abbeyview from 10th September.


RADAR PROJECT UPDATE


Luke Fowler filmed in Abbeyview to start his RADAR artwork on Monday also. It was a beautiful sunny day with residents out attending to their hedges & gardens, on the street selling cars and generally taking their time getting from A to B. Nicola accompanied Luke, taking pictures as he filmed and he returned on Wednesday to continue his work.














The artist Claire Barclay visited Dunfermline for the first time this week to start her RADAR artwork.




The plasma screen in The Abbeyview Council Local Service Centre will be showing the drawings made by Nicola, Carol Lambie and Hanna Tuulikki from the SEE EYE BOOK starting on Monday 3rd September.



Nicola Atkinson Does Fly in Abbeyveiw Clover

Photographs © Nicola Atkinson Does Fly & Alan Dimmick

LAUNCH : - SEE EYE BOOK, RECORD & THE CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

You are invited to the unveiling 26 Bruce Street Dunfermline on Saturday August 25th 3pm - Stevie Jackson, from Belle and Sebastian, will be performing live his two songs “Bird’s Eye View” & “The Electric Box” that he composed for Abbeyview. The shop will be open to the public the following week for three days on 28th/29th/30th August from 11 – 4pm. Nicola Atkinson Does Fly will be there to answer any questions.



The Cabinet of Curiosities has been designed and built by carpenter Nick Millar - in collaboration with the SEE EYE team

SEE EYE BOOK & RECORD
Published by NADFLY, 2007
Text by Chris Hladowski, Carol Lambie & Ben Spencer
Illustrations by Nicola Atkinson Does Fly Carol Lambie, Hanna Tuulikki, Stevie Jackson & Chris Hladowski
Designed by Nicola Atkinson Does Fly
Printed in an edition of 1000 by City Print Services, Glasgow, with a limited run of 500 copies of Stevie Jackson’s 7 inch record.


Photographs © Nicola Atkinson Does Fly

PRESENTING

Abbeyview Artist Nicola Atkinson Does Fly presenting her drawing of the Curiosity Cabinet to Sarah Ewing (Scottish Bowling Champion) at the Abbeyview Bowling Club

Photograph by linsey Leitch

Having FUN at the Abbeyview Festival

Photographs © Nicola Atkinson Does Fly

JOURNEY

Nicola's Journey from Glasgow to Abbeyview to Glasgow to Abbeyview to Glasgow etc...


The Abbeyview Council Local Service Centre - plasma screen - showing, Marisa Privitera, Tweed Street Tour images until 29th August 2007.


Curiosity Cabinet created by NIck Millar

The unveiling will be in a vacant shop on 26 Bruce Street, Dunfermline on Saturday August 25th at 3pm. Stevie Jackson, from Belle and Sebastian, will be performing live his two songs “Bird’s Eye View” & “The Electric Box” that he composed for Abbeyview. The shop will be open to the public the following week for three days on 28th/29th/30th August from 11 – 4pm.

Photographs & Drawing © Nicola Atkinson Does Fly

KEYS

Allan Cresent Abbeyview

It's been a productive week in Abbeyview....Nicola picked up the keys this week for 26 Bruce Street, Dunfermline, where the Curiosity Cabinet will start its tour on Saturday 25th August.

.....Philip Miller submitted two great stories called ‘PASSING PLACES’ & ‘SOUL AND CELL’ for the Clock People Artwork and she met with Alan Grieve to discuss further the story that he will write for Clock People.

.....and the SEE EYE Book design is now finished and looking great. Nicola has created and collated 52 pages of drawing and essays to immortalise the SEE EYE EVENT held in March this year.


Chris Hladowski does some final proofing of the SEE EYE book

Drawing © Nicola Atkinson Does Fly

ALL EYES ON

After the busy weekend of putting up 40 images on lamp posts and bus stops for the Tweed Street Tour, Monday saw the job of making sure the presentation on the plasma screen was working in the Abbeyview Local Offices.



Nick Millar writes a list for the final work on the Curiosity Cabinet

Linsey Leitch attended the weekly 'Abbeyview Festival' Meeting. All eyes have been on getting things in place for the exhibition and unveiling of the Curiosity Cabinet. The Abbeyview Festival committee were updated on the logistics of getting the Curiosity Cabinet to the Festival on the 19th August. There were discussions of how they felt about the Curiosity Cabinet and it was agreed that it was a very important part of the Festival day's events. Linsey and Nicola have now arranged a visit on the 14th August to the vacant shop at 26 Bruce Street, Dunfermline to give the committee an opportunity to see the Curiosity Cabinet for the first time. It will hopefully give them a realistic assessment of how to present it at the Abbeyview Festival.

The Curiosity Cabinet was created for the people of Abbeyview. It will be touring from Dunfermline to St Andrews, with various places in between. As it travels it will also give others a connection with Abbeyview and its artistic activities. When the tour is done however, it will return home to Abbeyview where the inspiration happened for its creation.



Nicola has also been designing the Curiosity Cabinet A5 flyers, an A3 poster, press release and layout of text. Linsey Leitch took these along to Dougie at Abbey Signs and he is now to creating a vinyl text sign, which will appear on the front window of the vacant shop in 26 Bruce Street, Dunfermline. You will be able to see the text there from 7th Aug.

Photographs & Drawings © Nicola Atkinson Does Fly