While on Artist Residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, artists Jasper Coppes and Dorian Braun have made a cello using a design by Alexander Battan Grant (1856-1942). Grant was a respected and innovative maker of fishing rods and stringed instruments from Grantown-on-Spey.

Join the first public presentation of Coppes and Braun’s interpretation of Alexander Battan Grant’s cello design. Coppes and Braun will introduce the process of researching and making the instrument, as well as acknowledging the many experts they have sought out to advise on the project. The evening will conclude with Simon Weins (artist and electronic musician ) and Feronia Wennborg (musician and composer) using the elements of the cello to perform an improvised sound-work.

Simon Weins is a visual artist and electronic musician, working with installations, objects, film and sound. Recent exhibitions include ‘dock / ancien palais de justice’, Les Brasseurs Liege (2019); ‘Pulses’, Mount Florida Gallery Glasgow (2018); ‘Look at me and see what I could not (yet) see’, Bonnefanntenmuseum Maastricht (2017) and ‘Slow Accident’, Nieuw Dakota Amsterdam (2017). Together with Caroline Hussey & Nuno Mendoza he organizes ‘Soup, Zuppa’, a monthly event for free improvisation at The Old Hairdresser Glasgow and releases experimental Electronica as Garland with Phillip Jondo on Amsterdam-based Label Lullabies for Insomniacs. www.simonweins.com

Feronia Wennborg is an artist and musician based in Glasgow, working with installation, performance, text, video and tape. She is part of several music collaborations in Glasgow and beyond, and released the album ‘Wet Courage’ with ECCO on GLARC in 2018. Recent exhibitions include ‘Blomma’, The Pipe Factory Glasgow (2018); ‘Exposition Collective’, Visarte.Vaud Lausanne (2018); ‘Which they draw into their mouth’ Crownpoint East Glasgow (2018) and ‘Function’, Mount Florida Gallery Glasgow (2017).

Coppes and Braun are delighted to have received the generous support of Inverness Museum and Art Gallery; Creative Scotland Open Project Funding; Stuart Reid at Stringers; St. Cecilia’s Hall, University of Edinburgh, and the Fisherrow Wood Working Group, Musselburg

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