Jesse Wine in conversation with Tim Ingold

Each resident has the opportunity to present publicly material that relates to the activities, research and making they engaged in while in residence.
On 26 May 2022 at Cortachy Castle, we hosted several guests to hear our inaugural resident, Jesse Wine, in conversation with anthropologist Tim Ingold. Together they discussed Jesse’s approach to grace and gravity, the play of illusion, deception and movement in the perception of sculpture and the material qualities of clay, wood and patinas. They rooted their conversation in a sculpture by Jesse brought to the castle that day. This sculpture from 2021, which Jesse would like to keep untitled, is made of ceramic but is covered in paint and iron oxide so that it looks like rusted metal. It is just over two meters tall and is composed of a central, pillar-like structure in two parts, in the top of which is a hole. A serpentine leg-shape ending in supple foot appears to push off from this central structure.