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Beautiful Trophies

In 2009 Logue was awarded a grant of £3,000 from the Scottish Arts Council to support the research and development of 15 new works commissioned for Beautiful Trophies, a solo exhibition at the Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery (12 September - 24 October 2009); a prestigious and internationally recognised centre for printmaking. The works comprised a series of 15 digital hybrid prints, woodcuts, a video installation and wallpaper all 2009: Going on a Bear Hunt, Does and Bucks, Hog Hunt, Bear, Turkey, Caribou, Bear Hug, Chad, Wild Boar, Brown Bear, Maine Black Bear, Cugar Hunt, Measuring Up II, Target Practice, (Video montage) and First Kill, (Wallpaper Installation).This new body of work developed Logue’s ongoing interest in specific individuals and communities and partly through her own participation explored the juxtaposition between the act of hunting and the simulation of the hunting experience through field archery. Hunting scenes have historically portrayed the practicality and necessity of the hunt as well as the power and status achieved by taking animals’ lives for food or sport.

This work was technically ambitious combining hybrid experimental digital prints with screen printing. Logue also presented expanded print forms (video montage) exploring the relationship between moving image and print as a medium through the process of sequence, narrative and repetition. Each monitor plays a different video sequence, looped at different durations, which in turn creates a series of narrative possibilities.

There was an artist’s talk and artist-led discussion (3 Oct 2009) attracting 24 participants. The exhibition received considerable press attention, including the Scotsman, http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts-review-modern-print-masters-lesley-logue-and-gillian-murray-1-778549 and Logue was interviewed on Leith FM (13 Sept 2009) http://leithtonight.wordpress.com/tag/lesley-logue/. Subsequently the works were shown at the ‘Wild Lament’ show at Foyer Gallery, Aberdeen (11 Sept - 3 Nov 2012) supported by Smart Consultants.