00:00My name is Lilian Ptacek and I'm an artist based in Glasgow.
00:26We're standing in my exhibition here which is titled Anatomical and
00:30Approximation. I've been working for the past two years and studying on my
00:34master's program actually in Rotterdam and I've been thinking a lot about
00:37different cities that I've lived in. So I lived in Glasgow for 11 years and grew
00:44up in London so I was thinking about my kind of teenage memories growing up in a
00:48very urban environment and the daily demands of living in a city and how that
00:54kind of brought me to think a lot about different types of urban design and
00:59what I kind of come to understand as sort of a rigid systematic logic that
01:04is built into some cities but then also at the same time there's this kind of
01:09natural fluid emergence that happens in cities where things just kind of come
01:14about and that also brings out certain types of strange oddities in
01:20cities so it's kind of exploring these two dynamics or the tension between
01:23these two. I used to work a lot in printmaking actually here at the Glasgow
01:27Print Studios for many years and I also kind of branched out in my master's into
01:32metalwork so these are large metal structures in the installation that
01:37looks a lot of kind of structures that you would find in cities so in
01:42particular I'm really interested in business districts and the kind of
01:45rigidity of the structures and the design of the architecture of those
01:48quite slick environments and so that's been explored through the metal work
01:54that I created using welding techniques then there's also kind of prosaic or
01:58kind of rudimentary processes where I've started using cardboard a lot in my
02:01practice so there's kind of incorporating concrete and different
02:05surface materials into cardboard structures and then there's also ceramic
02:08forms so I work with ceramics and there's kind of quite small ceramic
02:12pieces and I've spent a lot of time developing different techniques to
02:15render the surface of them so working with different glazing techniques to
02:19create either really glassy or wet surfaces and this is where I'm really
02:22exploring the kind of bodily qualities in the ceramic works and the kind of
02:26fluidity that you can have with working with ceramics.
02:29Anatomical and approximation. Thursday the 1st of August and runs until the 11th
02:34of August at the Glasgow Project Rooms.
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