Blaise Drummond Works

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Blaise Drummond, Music School

SO Fine Art Editions is delighted to have two new works from Blaise Drummond. His intaglio prints ‘Muuratsalo’ and ‘Music School’ are inspired by the interplay of natural and architectural forms. It’s through the combination of landscape and modernist architecture that Drummond attempts to show the balance of where man stands in relation to everything else.  As the artist comments on the work ‘Muuratsalo’:

“The print ‘Muuratsalo’ is based on an image of the boat shed at Alvar Aalto’s Experimental Summer House on the island of Muuratsalo, Jyväskylä, Finland.  I have made a lot of works over the years based on the architecture of Alvar Aalto, probably because of his particular emphasis within Modernism on the relation between the built environment and the natural world.”

Blaise Drummond, 2014

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Blaise Drummond, Muuratsalo

Each print is hand stitched, a technique the artist has used throughout his career; Drummond continues:

“For years now I’ve included sewing in the paintings as a sort of overwrought collage so it seemed an obvious formal solution here, particularly because of its close relation to a drawn coloured pencil line, only with the extra something of the slight element of 3D and the needle holes.”

Blaise Drummond, 2014

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Music School Detail

Blaise Drummond was born in Liverpool in 1967, but has lived and worked in Ireland for many years. His influences include 1960s American land art, punk rock, the characteristic architecture of Le Corbusier and Alvar Alto, the notes made by writer Henry D. Thoreau during his stay at Walden, and the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich. These sources of inspiration may at first glance seem widely disparate, but all are concerned with contradictions between nature and culture, i.e. the civilised versus the uncontrollable.

Drummond’s works are represented in several public collections, including the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France; the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.