David Faithfull was invited to present ALCHEMICAL AVIARY at the Scottish Scociety for Art History's ART+TEXT conference at the National Library of Scotland 6/7 February 2025

Alchemical Aviary is an Artist’s Book and series of printed multiples incorporating bird drawings as a metaphor for ecological Transmutation. The accompanying explanatory texts detail Alchemical codes and processes. First exhibited at Cupar Arts Festival it was also presented at EINA’s Virtual Fair of Singular Publications in Barcelona, during Lockdown in 2020.

Other speakers included:

Katharine Eustace

Andrew Demetrius

Rober de Mey

Chris Murray + Keith Williams

Jane Hyslop

Kaitie Hart Potapoff

Tilly Heydon

Carey Gibbons

Nin aReid

Helen Scott

Laurence Figgis

Catherine Sargeant

Hans Clausen

10.30 Andrew Demetrius (University of St Andrews)

Off the page, off the wall: New Town poetry in concrete