As part of our social media project with Alexandra McGregor for the ‘All About People‘ installation currently on in The Suttie Arts Space, Alexandra has written a new poem inspired by the newspaper created by Chris Lee and based on the people, objects and places in the film created by Graeme Roger, Lucie Treacher, Chris and the Aberdeen Performing Arts Youth Theatre.
A couple jigs on the streets
Kilted dancers move to the beats
Crowds outside Aberdeen Music Hall
Theatrical people in costume having a ball
In the Northeast they say fit like
A man cycles along Union Street on a bike
Lads and lassies sack racing
Horses slowly pacing
Seagulls on the waves in the North Sea
Golfing man takes a shot of his tee
Man, rows into a Northeast shore
Men working on the ships at Aberdeen harbour
Lassies balance eggs on spoons
Matching kilts on a pair of loons
Laddies at Aberdeen beach playing in the sand
Wifey holding a basket we see a hand
People stand near the statue of Edward the 7th on Union Street
Lads start the race ready to compete
Seed Experts on a shop sign
Lassie’s dancing in a line
Old advert for HP sauce beside an illustration of a boat
Quine swaggers in large fancy hat and coat
Alexandra McGregor is a visual artist and performer based in Aberdeen. Her work explores feminine rites and traditions seeking out and questioning the present and post female. The narratives within her practice are embedded in historical material with her performances acting as recording mechanisms that seek to unearth ideas around the contemporary female.
Alexandra graduated in 2017 from Gray’s School of Art and from 2017-18 was Graduate in Residence for the Contemporary Art department. She has exhibited at the RSA New Contemporaries (2018) at the Scottish National Gallery Edinburgh, and ‘Positive Geographies’ as part of the Look Again festival (2018). More recently she has exhibited and performed in group exhibitions organised by Nomad. Alexandra recently worked as a volunteer Gallery Assistant in The Suttie Arts Space.