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I am essentially concerned with the exploration of paint onto canvas and my relationship to it, its application and the dynamics thereof. Working with the process of addition and subtraction, movement, memory and energy, while evolving a series of paintings concurrently. I feel one of the many roles of an artist is to challenge peoples...
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My work focuses upon landscape: gardens, parks, woodland and shorelines. My paintings often hint at a human presence and I feel that my artwork expresses a mood of tranquillity sometimes coupled with one of unease, reflecting upon the external and inner life of the artist. The therapeutic aspect of painting and drawing interests me, how...
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Concepts I am a painter based in Scotland, my work ranges from large scale abstract colourfield painting to smaller figurative work.  "Rowena unleashes a powerful emotional force in a positive life enhancing aesthetic. An aesthetic in painting that is informed by vibrating colour relationships and formal balancing. The tension...
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My work is primarily concerned with process – building translucent glazes of paint until an illusion of light and depth are achieved. The process involves the application of multiple (up to 40 or more) thin glazes of acrylic paint and gloss medium. Each layer is dragged, pulled or manipulated with various implements – the process being...
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Statement It's about the Shape of the Journey...a documentation of works on paper and canvas in book form and sound scapes exploring our footsteps in the environment using screenprinting and photography I explore the natural forms and geometric patterns and anything else which can be used to pin down a thought, a feeling, a memory I'm drawn...
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My art practice begins as an enquiry into place, with the relationship between myself and immediate surrounding environment providing a starting point for investigations.  Drawing upon a rich source of experience stemming from the return to my childhood home in 2004, after a ten year absence, paintings develop in which physical and...
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I am a painter. Connecting with place, locality and nature slowly, I make 'local paintings' - in the sense that initial stimulus can come from walks in landscape and views from windows wherever I am. Involvement with specific ideas might also send me to a particular location deliberately. I walk – with cameras, sketch books and notebooks...
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Concepts Composition is important. Related flat areas of colour are made to look solid without the use of illusionist modelling; pattern sometimes assisting in describing form. People, objects and patterns are arranged on the picture surface within the particularised space. All elements are intended to harmonise exactly; the colour and shapes...
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The work on this site is gathered from various ongoing and completed projects. “The ‘summer’ theme is something I have worked on for the last year or so. In this series of work I attempt to evoke feelings of holiday nostalgia, and of a ‘common past’ many of us seem to share. With subject matter drawn from yellowing, dated family photographs,...
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'Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it we are nothing.' Luis Bunuel, filmmakerMy practice is concerned with the fragmentary nature of memory and identity. The work is informed by an interrogation of the physical world through drawing, painting, photographing/filming and through collecting...
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Lisa O'Brien's performance and installation work stems from her interest in sound. In the 80's she studied Expressive Arts at Brighton Polytechnic which included components in music composition, performance and sculpture. She developed an interest in working with instruments and vocals and much of her subsequent composition and performance...
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Concepts My granite sculptures express my love and concern for the human and animal condition. They address issues that are universal and relevant to today. War Veteran on loan to the World War 2 Museum at Bletchley Park illustrates the human cost of landmines. Fallen Christ, sited on the pilgrimage Island of Iona portrays the need for...
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A focus on the physicality of materials and processes involved in painting, has led to a concern with how a worked-upon object can become elevated above the level of pure aesthetics, giving it the ability to instill feelings of spiritual reverence. Through repetitive, process driven embellishments and referencing the visual facets of icons,...
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Like many people, I have been influenced and inspired by fairy tales, cartoons, films and children’s books; especially the Alice in Wonderland stories. With cautionary messages and wonderful worlds in which to escape, little Alice, the Mad Hatter and The Queen of Hearts have always created an endless fascination and curiosity of wonder for...
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'Macdonald's deceptively naive paintings narrate a numinous land of dreams, filled with witty imagistic juxtapositions and happy surprises. Sincerity sustains her visions, yet real pictorial savvy makes her compositions compelling for their formal qualities as well as for her wonderfully upbeat sensibility' (Taplinger, M., Gallery & Studio,...
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Concepts The over-riding theme of my work is an exploration of issues of ecology and sustainability, using semi-abstract but accessible images and symbols in a simple and direct way, and moving away from anthropocentrism to a geocentric perspective. Put plainly, and despite the subtext of the last 2,500 years of Western culture, humans are not...
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James Winnett (Birmingham, 1983) is a Glasgow based artist working primarily in sculpture, intervention, print and video. His work focuses around forms of spatial enquiry, merging processes of research, intervention, and documentation. An examination of place, borders and cultural identities is central to his practice as is an exploration of the...
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Claire studied at the University of Edinburgh and Edinburgh College of Art graduating MA Fine Art with distinction in 1997. After working in arts fundraising and management, including projects with The National Galleries of Scotland and Royal Scottish Academy she returned to studio practice in 2008. Since then she has exhibited widely...
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Concepts Creation is a constant inspiration: plants, insects, landscapes and gardens. I work in watercolour and acrylic which I use together or separately, combining traditional watercolour techniques with semi-abstract backgrounds. I enjoy the traditional skills of watercolour while at the same time challenging myself to push its...
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There is a cool, quiet elegance to Alan Macdonald's paintings, which belies the disequilibrium at their heart. His figures, grey eyed and dreaming, might be time travellers, drawing distant cousinship from the portraits of Rembrandt or Frans Hals. His bucolic northern landscapes lay claim to an equally venerable artistic heritage. But if an...
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I paint fairly intuitively with a 'starting point' but without a fixed idea of how the end product will look. I don't spend much time worrying, as is the current vogue, about being 'contemporary', 'cutting edge' or reading books by continental theoreticians. Rather, my practice is informed somewhat by literature, films &...
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My practice is an investigation of the world I live in. I seek to pursue ways of describing the present moment; the sensation of transient events and form and its relationship to space.  The physical act of creating is very much intrinsic in the work. I seek to explore how the act of making, the subject and the actual work converge. The...
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'Drawing and colour are not separate at all; in so far as you paint, you draw'Throughout my work, whether it be painted or drawn, the most important aspect is the process of drawing itself. My interest lies not only in the initial drawing process but in methodical reduction. Through “removing” parts of a composition marks left...
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David Sherry (b. 1974, Northern Ireland) studied at the University of Ulster at Belfast (1994-1997) and Glasgow School of Art (MFA, 1998-2000). Solo exhibitions include Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2006), M and M Gallery, Antwerp (2005) and Jack Hanley, San Francisco (2005). Select group exhibitions include G.A.K. Bremen (2010), The Ikon Gallery...
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I explore an interweaving of reality and fiction similar to what is constructed during the recollection of dreams and distant memories. My paintings have an anecdotal quality but an incomplete narrative. They are often based in reality but become skewed towards abstraction and confusion. 
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I am a Glasgow based visual artist, who often makes site specific works using collage techniques and digital media. I recently undertook a year long Digital Media Residency at Callendar Park Falkirk, an SAC Partners residency for Falkirk Council. I worked for two years as a Part time Lecturer at Edinburgh College of Art in the Painting Department...
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Tumim & Prendergast explore the concepts of our temporal existence and cast-off items we often ignore. Accident and chance also play a part alongside their characteristic humour (often dark). They offer us clues - to research further and of lives lived. (Art historian Lorna Johnston - www.artsbigpicture.com) We are a...
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Concepts The paintings depict commonplace things; interiors, fragments of landscapes or areas of no-mans land. Central to all the recent work is the act of painting from direct observation. Influences Landscape, Architecture/Urban environment, interiors. Career path Qualifications: 1977 Diploma In Drawing And Painting, Glasgow School of...
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Influences Areas of work Early years educationAdult educationCommunity artsCuratingExhibitingHealthcare artsLecturingPractice-based researchPrivate commissionsPublic artResidenciesFundraisingWorkshopsWorking with architectsSpecial needs Collections Museum Albertina, ViennaRupertinum, Museum for Modern...
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Artist statement I have a deep attachment to the island on which I live, which has informed my work during the development of identifying my relationship between self and place. This attachment was created by spending time alone outside immersing myself in the landscape, really observing and recording what I see, hear, feel, smell and touch as...
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I am drawn to artistic variety, having produced digital art, paintings, animation, books and electronic music. I prefer to use materials in a spontaneous way and enjoy bringing diverse media together. Although interested in science and technology, I am equally fascinated by what we don’t know, uncertainty, and how we absorb ideas, facts and...
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I experiment with liquid materials (paints, varnishes, oils) to explore the marks they produce and their physicality. My work can be construed as painting, sculpture or installation. Glossy spillages which are shiny, seductive and reflective in their simplicity contrast paint stained paper marks which give illusions of depth and complexity....
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