Busy European summer for Dalziel & Scullion

Award winning artists Matthew Dalziel and Louise Scullion, both lecturers at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, have spent the summer highlighting their work across Europe with separate projects in Norway, France and Ireland.

As part of Stavanger European City of Culture 2008 they were invited along with other international artists to take part in On The Edge, a project aimed at drawing attention to a string of unmanned lighthouses along the Norwegian coast and encouraging new ideas about their future use.

Each artist was asked to exhibit a work on one of the lighthouses. Dalziel & Scullion created a video and sound installation in Feinstein lighthouse on a remote Norwegian island.

The work titled The Earth Turned to Bring Us Closer was a collaboration with musician and composer Craig Anderson, who has written numerous orchestral scores but is better known for his film work including Moulin Rouge and Elizabeth, The Golden Age. Craig has won two BAFTA Awards, an Ivor Novello award, a Golden Globe and a Grammy for his film scores.

Dalziel & Scullion worked with Craig again at the Festival De Saint- Denis in Paris, one of the most prestigious classical music festivals in the world. Their collaborative work One Minute was a large-scale video projection and music piece performed live in the impressive interior of the Basillique Cathedral by the orchestra National d'Ile de France.

Their third overseas trip took them to Limerick City Art Gallery in Ireland where an exhibition of Scottish artists working in film or video gave them the opportunity to show a substantial piece of work alongside other leading Scottish artists Roddy Buchanan and Douglas Gordon.