David Michie OBE, RSA, FRSA
Title: Cheese and Biscuits
Date: 2009
Bronze, H 5 cms x diam 17
I made the print from a drawing done during a visit to the garden of John Houston and Elizabeth Blackadder. It was high summer and the garden was full of pattern which I responded to. The print was made at Edinburgh Printmakers. I made many paintings that derived from subsequent visits to that garden.
The sculpture I have made is an unusual adventure for me and an
enjoyable one. A plate of cheese and biscuits is a familiar and
commonplace sight and deserves to be celebrated as a piece of
sculpture.
Biography
David Michie was born in St Raphael, France in 1928, but his family returned to Scotland in 1934. After attending Hawick High School and subsequently Edinburgh College of Art, he spent a few years teaching at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, and the larger part of his life teaching at Edinburgh College of Art, where he held the position of Head of Painting from 1982-1990.
Michie has exhibited regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, and held solo exhibitions in London, Edinburgh and Holland, as well as participating in numerous group exhibitions in the UK and USA. |
