YVONNE BUSKIE
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The Edinburgh Boxing Academy, Granton, Edinburgh. 2012
For the first few visits to The Edinburgh Boxing Academy I was pondering which medium would be the most suitable for the project. While watching the boxers challenge each other in the ring, I realised that I too needed to find a working method and medium that would challenge me artistically. I decided that the most challenging thing was to draw figuratively. 
Through discussions with both boxers and artists I realize there is a meditative zone that both parties experience when totally absorbed in their individual practice. Is there also a correlation between the relationship of the artist, subject and the drawn mark with the boxer, his opponent and the punches thrown?
As an analogy, perhaps punches are crafted like a drawn mark. Some are spontaneous while others are carefully considered. Neither may hit the intended spot first time but through determination and practice the outcome of their movements begin to manifest. For the artist, this manifestation is displayed on the paper as a recognizable figure and for the pugilist his mark is left on the opponent. In this analogy it may seem that the opponent is the pugilists piece of paper but I think not. Instead, the ring is the paper; it is the boundary, the opponent is the subject, and the boxer is the artist. 


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One Hundred Standing Burpee's July 2013. Oil on paper A1
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Andy v Andy. Ink on paper. TEBA. October 2012.
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Andy Jumping Rope Charcoal on paper. TEBA October 2012. (Andrew Philip.)
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Danny waiting to fight. Pencil on paper. TEBA. Nov 2012.
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Boy in red t-shirt. Charcoal on paper. TEBA. October 2012

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Waiting. Charcoal on paper. TEBA. Sept 2012 (Andrew Sutherland)

Big thanks to Sean Heron for giving me access to the Academy and the boxers who train there; Andrew Sutherland and Andrew Philip, Danny Young, and all the others. They have all been very generous with their time and knowledge,  allowing me to take photos and video of their process. This has been a great help in developing this body of work.
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  • 2023
  • 2019-2022
    • 2020 Supernature series
    • 2020 Skin and Stone..More
    • 2019 White Castle Area
    • 2019 And The Birds Did Sing
    • 2019 We Are All Just Little Creatures
    • 2019 Rona MacDonald/Imaginate
  • 2017....starting to see the end...More
    • 2017 Mamababame
    • 2017 The Reluctant Boxer
    • 2016 d'Arc:LAND
    • 2015 Joan of Arc 603
  • Past Projects
    • Photography >
      • 2019 Land:scape
      • 2009 Azerbaijan
    • 2016 ThinkArts
    • 2014 The Line >
      • 2014 The Line
    • 2014 Lyra Theatre
    • The Edinburgh Boxing Academy 2013 >
      • Through Drawing
  • BUSKIE+TJÅLAND
    • 2012 I found, I found. >
      • 2011 The Knitting Lady
  • 2009 Prophecy
  • Vimeo
  • Contact
  • Store