Douglas Gordon: Black Burns Installation & documentary film project (ongoing), Scottish National Portrait Gallery

Positive / negative, black & white, heroes and villains – dualities inform much of Douglas Gordons’ work. My role in this was also multiple – designer, producer and film-maker. I arranged 3d scanning of the marble figure of Robert Burns by John Flaxman (1759-1826) in the Portrait Gallery. The data then went to Italy and formed the basis for an exquisite near-perfect black marble facsimile which was fractured and the pieces returned to Scotland for display in the Great Hall in front of the original.

Douglas Gordon interview the Scotsman online 1 August 2017

Photography below by Franceso Patterlini, Jessie Maucour, Elsie Mitchell & Andy McGregor

The images above show the installation of the work at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, the publication I designed (more on this here) and the graphic collateral I designed. Images below document the process from the original block of marble through computer milling, hand sculpting, polishing and the controlled fracturing. See film below for additional