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artist residency: September - November 2025
exhibition: 28 November 2025
Peter Glasgow
The germ of this residency lies in a 15th century battle in which a large French army suffered a catastrophic defeat, in part, due to becoming hampered by their own technologically advanced armour as they tried to traverse muddy ground on 25th October 1415. Over the past two years Peter has been pursuing a fascination with the ins and outs of this narrative, from travelling to look at manuscripts and armour collections to 28mm scale historical miniature hobbying.
His three-month residency with Art Arcadia is an opportunity to draw out themes within his research and explore a spectrum of associative connections, whether recording the noise of football fans, visiting ploughed fields or rendering miniature landscapes. All this within the context of Derry~Londonderry, a city built around the very idea of an architectural armour. During his residency Peter will be conducting research at the Tower Museum and working closely with Derry City Football Club. His project is kindly supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
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Peter Glasgow is a visual artist based in County Antrim. He is a graduate of Fine Art Printmaking at the Royal College of Art. Recent work includes a collaborative performance with drummer Alex Paveley for COMMUNE, Muine Bheag Arts(2024) and a digital residency with CCA Derry~Londonderry (2023). He has exhibited at Flax Art Studios, millimetre at Kingsgate Project Space, Guest Projects and Art Licks Weekend. His collaboration with artist-filmmaker Sun Park, “At Once It Dreams In Multiple Tenses”, was presented by South Kiosk, London (2021) and exhibited at Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2022) and WHITEHOUSE, Tokyo (2023).
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Art Arcadia HEARTLANDS is supported by the National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
This residency is in partnership with Derry Football Club and Tower Museum.
![[Peter] some Non Metallic Metal! When I first started working my way through miniature painting techniques to try this was the one that sort of opened everything up for me. It's basically painting silver and gold without using silver or gold paint. Because using metallic paints would perhaps be the default in hobby painting, using regular colours is a way of taking the scenic route.
I love it - it takes the sense of illusion that characterises all of miniature painting and diorama making to the nth degree. And I like the way you have to code in all this information about the surroundings, like lighting and reflections etc - it's a way of painting the surrounding environment without painting the surrounding environment.
I've enjoyed reading and trying a lot of recipes so I thought I'd share this particular NMM silver recipe. Brace yourself
- Base mix: Mechanicus Standard Grey + a little bit of Kantor Blue
- shade down by adding Abaddon Black
- Re-establish base mix
- Highlight Dawnstone + little bit of Kantor Blue
- highlight Administratum Grey + little bit of Kantor
- highlight previous mix plus White Scar
- highlight White scar
- Then glaze the highlights coming from one direction with Baharroth Blue + lahmian medium (several times) and glaze the shadows on that side with Kantor Blue + lahmian medium (just once)
- Glaze highlights coming from the opposite direction with Baharroth Blue + Warpstone Glow (1:1) + lahmian medium several times and shadows with Incubi Darkness once.
- Glaze in any other reflected colours
- Re-do highlights from the first direction with Baharroth Blue + white scar and the opposite direction with Baharroth Blue + Warpstone Glow + white scar
- Highlight only the first direction with white scar and a glaze of white scar + lahmian medium
Phew!
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