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| Brigid Collins |
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| | 27 Waverley Place |
| Edinburgh |
| EH7 5SA | |
| Telephone: 0131 661 5226 |
| Mobile: 07814 021961 |
| Fax: none |
| Email: mail@brigidcollins.co.uk |
| A new anthology "For A' That" - a creative celebration of Robert Burns - launched in September 2009 has been designed by Tim Bremner with illustrations specially created by Brigid Collins. It includes stories, poems and prose by locally, nationally and internationally known authors, including Kirsty Gunn, DBC Pierre, Janice Galloway and Bill Manhire. Purchase a copy at:
https://www.buyat.dundee.ac.uk/catalogue/productsearch.asp?s=for+a%27+that&1=Go |
| Through my personal work I develop themes and techniques that inform and enrich my commissions and my work has gradually expanded in scope to encompass three-dimensional constructions, large-scale paintings/collages and Artists' Books. These have been commissioned by clients ranging from law firms, such as Dundas & Wilson to shipping companies, such as Cunard, for QM2.
I work in many media, often combining found objects, wire and fragments of text and imagery with painting in acrylic and watercolour, delicately working them into intricately crafted compositions, in 2D and 3D. Commissions have included illuminated box-constructions used to illustrate a book, ‘Room to Rhyme' by the Irish poet and Nobel Laureate, Seamus Heaney, the design of both the inaugural (2006) and subsequent awards for the “National Short Story Prize” and creative collaborations with writers and poets, including John Burnside, Kirsty Gunn, Larry Butler and with Jewellery/Metalwork Designer, Teena Ramsay.
"Brigid Collins's works, incorporating watercolour, wire, tissue, gauze, gold leaf, beeswax present the delicate interior worlds of poems, where gold embossed fragmentary text provides a gateway to interiors of the imagination. The choice of materials and construction; veins of leaves, delicate papers, precious metal and frayed edges are on an intimate scale, encouraging closer examination and contemplation of the work" - Georgina Cockburn - review of The Nairn Open Art Competition (Hi-Arts, 13 June , 2009) |
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| "Come see real flowers" |
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| "Down and Out in Paris and London" |
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| "Seven Changes" |
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| "The Self-Unseeing" |
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| "Tragedy" |
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| "Twinings Tea" |
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| 'The Scent Trail' |
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| For A' That |
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