The first cut is the deepest, baby I know...

Last Friday we made our way to Edinburgh for the book launch of Rough Cut Nation at the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It was a good evening and we enjoyed ourselves immensely! The new building has certainly changed and it was good to see it before its official opening.

Its been a few years now since Rough Cut Nation and the knock-on effects that have followed. It was needless to say, a great project - had plenty of publicity and ended up being one of the galleries most successful shows ever. Al and I had a blast working there and met some great folk and made a bunch of new friends - many of whom have worked with us on other projects (In Honour of September and Are We There Yet?)

Have put a few images here of the book together with an image we found while clearing the office the other week. Things don't change - we're still clowning around... - FIN

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Cat Stevens - The First Cut Is The Deepest

New Masters (1967)

Last Friday we made our way to Edinburgh for the book launch of Rough Cut Nation at the newly refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery. It was a good evening and we enjoyed ourselves immensely! The new building has certainly changed and it was good to see it before its official opening.

Its been a few years now since Rough Cut Nation and the knock-on effects that have followed. It was needless to say, a great project - had plenty of publicity and ended up being one of the galleries most successful shows ever. Al and I had a blast working there and met some great folk and made a bunch of new friends - many of whom have worked with us on other projects (In Honour of September and Are We There Yet?)

Have put a few images here of the book together with an image we found while clearing the office the other week. Things don't change - we're still clowning around... - FIN

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Cat Stevens - The First Cut Is The Deepest

New Masters (1967)

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Who knows where the time goes?

Wow - where does time go?! Not a metaphysical question by the way, just an observation that so much seems to have happened over the last few months and that we have had hardly any time to breathe either individually in our own work or collectively as DUFI.

So first things first, The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Rough Cut Nation opened on the 7th August with crowds of people coming to see the work. Over 1000 people through the doors that day with people queuing to get in is pretty good...To say that the whole project has been a success would be an understatement! Richie Cumming and his team have done a fabulous job of curating and organising this show. It would be difficult to pick out highlights for us, as the whole show really is a collective effort. A mix of traditional freehand, stencil, sticker, paste-ups and throw-ups as well as sculpture, new technologies with work overlapping and spaces literally bleeding into each other.

Just a delight to work with the guys and girls there with a distinct lack of egos despite some serious talent on show...thanks everyone!

From a personal point of view we are both really happy with our own piece within the show and with the creative decisions we made along the way - either on our own or in consultation with the other artists. It was a challenge to work at such a large scale with a hand cut stencil but it was rewarding work as well (Even if we did cause a major disruption to the project by laying on 4 cans of paint in about 15 minutes!! Thankfully all was sorted and things could go on).

The response from you good folk out there was phenomenal - we got over three times as many words as we could use for the artwork and it was difficult to narrow it down to something we thought would be representative of the diverse views expressed. It was also a challenge to work out the best way to group these words, and in the end we decided to list them in alphabetic order - It just seemed that it would be too contrived to do it any other way and even a random selection would seem ordered!

What next? Well a couple of smaller projects we have to finish and then we will be working with a few folk from Rough Cut Nation on the Re:Imagining The Centre project in Inverness in September. Richie Cumming, Mike Inglis, Machism and Kirsty Whiten will all be coming to play with us which will be fun! Will give more details soon...

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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Unhalfbricking (1969)

Wow - where does time go?! Not a metaphysical question by the way, just an observation that so much seems to have happened over the last few months and that we have had hardly any time to breathe either individually in our own work or collectively as DUFI.

So first things first, The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland. Rough Cut Nation opened on the 7th August with crowds of people coming to see the work. Over 1000 people through the doors that day with people queuing to get in is pretty good...To say that the whole project has been a success would be an understatement! Richie Cumming and his team have done a fabulous job of curating and organising this show. It would be difficult to pick out highlights for us, as the whole show really is a collective effort. A mix of traditional freehand, stencil, sticker, paste-ups and throw-ups as well as sculpture, new technologies with work overlapping and spaces literally bleeding into each other.

Just a delight to work with the guys and girls there with a distinct lack of egos despite some serious talent on show...thanks everyone!

From a personal point of view we are both really happy with our own piece within the show and with the creative decisions we made along the way - either on our own or in consultation with the other artists. It was a challenge to work at such a large scale with a hand cut stencil but it was rewarding work as well (Even if we did cause a major disruption to the project by laying on 4 cans of paint in about 15 minutes!! Thankfully all was sorted and things could go on).

The response from you good folk out there was phenomenal - we got over three times as many words as we could use for the artwork and it was difficult to narrow it down to something we thought would be representative of the diverse views expressed. It was also a challenge to work out the best way to group these words, and in the end we decided to list them in alphabetic order - It just seemed that it would be too contrived to do it any other way and even a random selection would seem ordered!

What next? Well a couple of smaller projects we have to finish and then we will be working with a few folk from Rough Cut Nation on the Re:Imagining The Centre project in Inverness in September. Richie Cumming, Mike Inglis, Machism and Kirsty Whiten will all be coming to play with us which will be fun! Will give more details soon...

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Fairport Convention - Who Knows Where The Time Goes?
Unhalfbricking (1969)

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Less than a command, more than a suggestion

Thank you all for your contributions to our Jesus questionaire. The exhibtion in The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, is now open and is getting a lot of footfall.

We will post images of the finished piece shortly, but to whet your appetite...

"There’s something gloriously comical about watching visitors walking round asking one another what it all means, and nodding appreciatively at a gigantic hoodie Jesus (‘divine and divisive’, according to the lady with the blue rinse)."
Lizzie Mitchell | The List (Issue 637)
18 August 2009

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Gena Rowlands Band - FuckUps Of The World Unite

Flesh & Spirits (2007)

Thank you all for your contributions to our Jesus questionaire. The exhibtion in The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, is now open and is getting a lot of footfall.

We will post images of the finished piece shortly, but to whet your appetite...

"There’s something gloriously comical about watching visitors walking round asking one another what it all means, and nodding appreciatively at a gigantic hoodie Jesus (‘divine and divisive’, according to the lady with the blue rinse)."
Lizzie Mitchell | The List (Issue 637)
18 August 2009

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Gena Rowlands Band - FuckUps Of The World Unite

Flesh & Spirits (2007)

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Your own personal Jesus...

The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland will be hosting an exhibition later this year entitled Rough Cut Nation.

This unique multimedia project draws together a group of young artists from around Scotland to create a dramatic collaborative installation. For the Edinburgh Festival they will construct a remixed version of Scottish history as informed by street art and graffiti culture, painted, pasted and projected directly onto the walls of the Portrait Gallery.

The project updates William Hole's original decorative mural scheme of 1889-1898, depicting important events from Scotland's past. This new installation exploits the empty space produced by the Gallery's current closure for redevelopment.

As one of the artist duos involved we are interested in exploring religious iconography and the use of Jesus as a moral or social catalyst within both Scottish history and contemporary culture.

With that in mind we would like to ask you three questions:

1. Jesus- who/what was he?
2. Scotland - what (if any) impact has he had on Scotland's history?
3. What impact has Jesus had on Scotland past, present and future?

If you only want to respond to one of the questions, that would be fine. A single word or a couple of words answer is perfect - but if you want to write more then please feel free to do so. The crucial thing is to gather opinion from a broad range of people of all beliefs (or non-beliefs).

The answers that we collect from these questions will potentially form part of the final artwork, but will not be attributed to any one individual.

Please give your answers either in the comments section below or email them to DUFI.JESUS@GMAIL.COM

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Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Strange Too (1990)

The National Portrait Gallery of Scotland will be hosting an exhibition later this year entitled Rough Cut Nation.

This unique multimedia project draws together a group of young artists from around Scotland to create a dramatic collaborative installation. For the Edinburgh Festival they will construct a remixed version of Scottish history as informed by street art and graffiti culture, painted, pasted and projected directly onto the walls of the Portrait Gallery.

The project updates William Hole's original decorative mural scheme of 1889-1898, depicting important events from Scotland's past. This new installation exploits the empty space produced by the Gallery's current closure for redevelopment.

As one of the artist duos involved we are interested in exploring religious iconography and the use of Jesus as a moral or social catalyst within both Scottish history and contemporary culture.

With that in mind we would like to ask you three questions:

1. Jesus- who/what was he?
2. Scotland - what (if any) impact has he had on Scotland's history?
3. What impact has Jesus had on Scotland past, present and future?

If you only want to respond to one of the questions, that would be fine. A single word or a couple of words answer is perfect - but if you want to write more then please feel free to do so. The crucial thing is to gather opinion from a broad range of people of all beliefs (or non-beliefs).

The answers that we collect from these questions will potentially form part of the final artwork, but will not be attributed to any one individual.

Please give your answers either in the comments section below or email them to DUFI.JESUS@GMAIL.COM

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Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
Strange Too (1990)

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