Drawing on Dreams Ailie Rutherford

Scottish artist Ailie Rutherford shows Drawing on Dreams in the Darkside Gallery. For the past nine years Rutherford has been documenting her dreams. She has taught herself to draw in a hypnagogic state, keeping a notebook beside her pillow. 

"I've been reading Sigmund Freud's 'On Dreams' and fallen asleep while reading. In a semi-awake state I picked up my pencil and notebook to sketch, discovering later that I'd drawn Freud's book instead. Since then I have been using the book as my diary, drawing onto the pages each day, the drawings having an arbitrary relationship to the text."

Visitors to the gallery are invited to add their own dreams to the collection.

Presented alongside Jay Huthinson Made at the Sweatshop and Blue Movies