Visual arts Feature of the Month

Katy Dove

Katy Dove was supported through a Scottish Arts Council funded artist in residency programme since 2006 at Platform in Glasgow.

Over the past 2 years Katy Dove has worked on a range of projects at Platform involving school groups, a mental health group and a youth music group, all of which have linked closely to her own artistic practice.

Katy's own artistic practice has continued alongside these projects and ideas have bounced back and forward between these different ways of working.

She has explored ideas relating to sound, movement, personal places, pattern and shape and has developed more collaborative and communicative ways of working in ways which have undoubtedly been influenced by having worked with these groups.

Platform has provided the facilities, the support and an inspiring space in which to carry out this work.

This exhibition includes two films by Katy Dove; ‘Welcome’ 2008, animation with sound (7 mins) being shown here for the first time and ‘Sooner’ 2007, animation with sound (5 mins).

The exhibition also included eight films made by members of Positive Mental Attitudes, including ‘Make a Shape’, a film with choreography by pupils from Wellhouse Primary School, ‘One Two One’ (available from the Platform website), a web project in collaboration with Simon Yuill and drawing, painting and photography work.

The eight films made by Positive Mental Attitudes recently won the 2008 4Talent Scotland Award for Innovation in association with the Scottish Mental Health Arts and Film Festival -  a follow up project is being planned.