Wednesday, 30 April 2014

A TYPICAL SCOTTISH SUMMER ?


It's not even the first of May but we have already welcomed our first artist in residence to Glenfiddich. Joyce Ho flew in from Taipei city yesterday morning. Despite the unfounded warnings of snow displayed at Huntly on my way to collect her at Aberdeen airport Joyce still managed to enjoy a fine warm first day settling into sunny Speyside.
 
 
 
A graduate of the University of Iowa, Joyce is an interdisciplinary artist with an emphasis in painting, sculpture and theatre and has exhibited at such venues as Kobe Biennale, Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai, Today Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts Shanghai. She has worked as a scenic artist with the avant-garde performance group Riverbed Theatre on productions at Taiwan’s National Experimental Theatre and the Avignon-Off Festival in France.
 
Joyce is the tenth Taiwanese artist to spend a summer in residence at Glenfiddich and once again was selected to join the residency with kind assistance from our long term partners there, IT Park.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Monday, 28 April 2014

IS IT THAT TIME ALREADY ? ....




There is an early summer feel to the Dufftown air once again. The town is gearing up to play its part in next weekends annual Speyside Whisky Festival, the house martins have returned to build their nests in the eves at Milltown of Balvenie. And at The Glenfiddich Distillery, preparations are being made to welcome the first arrivals to the 2014 Artists in Residence programme.

With The Glenfiddich residencies now in their thirteenth year. The next five months will see the distillery play host to artists from 10 different countries. A full exhibition programme is planned from mid July onwards.