su grierson

SU GRIERSON
AERIAL ROOTS

Su Grierson's work utilises video, image and sound to present land and landscape from differing, non-traditional perspectives. She aims to visually and aurally stimulate understanding and awareness of the land, and is actively involved in developing contemporary art and supporting artists living outside of the urban centres. The project Aerial Roots is a progression of this work, and adds new dimensions in terms of the use of a website, and the direct involvement of the farming community.

The films, Aerial Roots and Un-natural Selection will be shown on a stall at Cupar Farmers Market together with printed material and archive photographs.

Aerial Roots combines footage from the Scottish Screen Archive and contemporary video and sound works. It creates a visual testament to the continuity of agricultural husbandry in spite of amazing technical changes.

Audio interviews used in the film and website were recorded at Forfar Farmers Market and some video footage was shot in Fife including the area immediately surrounding Cupar.

The second video is Un-natural Selection. Eggs are a ubiquitous foodstuff as well as symbols of fertility and regeneration. This work looks at the rejects. The perfectly good food that didn't make supermarket grade - rejected for it's less than perfect appearance. The flaws blazoned on the defective eggs also have direct references to the human form and issues of physical perfection.

At Cupar Farmers Market (which takes place on the morning of Saturday 17th October), reject organic eggs, including those too large for supermarket boxes and those too, white, too thin, or too wrinkled etc. will be sold alongside this video emphasising the fact that good food should not be about visual perfection.

This project for Cupar Arts Festival takes art directly to the market place, bringing art and agriculture together.