@grimprospectart.bsky.social
Immersive experiences, installations and performance art by Edinburgh-based artists Jen McGregor and Mark Bolsover.
A newly-made puppet with art materials in the background.
A shadow puppet experiment showing a small woman being menaced by a skeletal hand.
Some of our new puppet prototypes made an appearance in a scratch performance of Jen's new storytelling show at the first And Friends event in Edinburgh. We'll be developing these further through a residency at Capital Studio next week, and we can't wait!
27.02.2025 19:56 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Why were the first drawings of neurons defaced?
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He also threatened to make a Dante Choose Your Own Adventure and we are hoping he'll accept this post as a formal order for a copy when it happens.
16.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just back from a brilliant talk at @fruitmarket.bsky.social by Barrie Tullett, who is even more of a Dante nerd than we are and created thing gorgeous artwork: www.southbankcentre.co.uk/venues/natio...
16.02.2025 15:13 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0He was found as a stray kitten in Edinburgh's most haunted graveyard in 2022. We thought we were fostering him for a few days until we found his owners, but Bones thought otherwise and no owners ever materialised, so now we are his people and he is the outside eye on all our work.
21.01.2025 22:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A very pretty ginger cat sits looking just past the camera. He looks very magnificent.
Individually we are experimental prose poet and visual artist @mdbolsover.bsky.social and theatremaker @jenbitespeople.bsky.social. We should probably tell you about our work at this point, and we'll get to that, but the important thing is that you meet our cat, Bones.
21.01.2025 22:45 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Two funereal-looking figures, Dr Devilsfield and The Seer, stand waiting for querants at the Hidden Door Festival in 2021.
We weren't calling ourselves Grim Prospect yet, but this was our first outing - Meet Your Doom at Hidden Door in 2021. Photo credit @chrisdonia.bsky.social
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