Spin to Win 2025
On a small island off Scotland’s west coast, an open studio became the setting for Spin to Win, active from mid-July to August 2025.
Visitors triggered a spinning sequence: if the pieces aligned to form a single-coloured fish, a prize was awarded — the chosen configuration, one among 729 possibilities, printed and sent by post.
What emerged was less the mechanics of the game than the persistence of hope. Many players sought not simply to participate but to win — despite knowing neither the nature of the prize nor the long odds against success. In this way, Spin to Win revealed not only shifting patterns of colour but the desires and disappointments they carried.
Sitting
While the game played on with the door open, a second work appeared: a large lino cut, scaled from the underside of an ironing board.
On the table it served as backdrop rather than performance—work in progress that neither asked to be watched nor ignored.
The Choice
Selection was seldom about colour. Spread across a worn studio sofa like an OS map, the chart of 729 combinations became less a catalogue of hues than a field of private references. Visitors chose not by shade but by number—‘lucky’ integers, dates of death, places, ages. In this way the game’s outcome merged with their own histories.
The Prize
No prizes have yet been produced. Each will take shape only when posted—a printed configuration, perhaps with an added element. Wrapped, folded, stamped: the parcel itself becomes part of the work, completing the game in ways the winner may not expect.