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I have always drawn and painted the human figure, it has been the main focus of my art since I was a child, and is an interest which continued through art college and beyond. When I had my four children, I recorded their childhood in drawings paintings and prints. Sometimes, years later, I have made work from the memory of these times. So I was...
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Louise Hopkins practices a strategic sort of iconoclasm. Starting with pre-printed found surfaces, Hopkins remakes visual imagery through overpainting or repainting, erasing, scratching off or tearing the surface. The form of mark-making for each work is a specific response to the source material. Although she is perhaps most well known for...
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Helen Glassford's paintings are in essence abstractions of the Scottish landscape in which she finds herself immersed.  Her painting is in a constant state of flux, a condition perpetuated by her experience of the shifting weather systems that roll inexorably across this landscape, as a counterpoint to the slow creep of geological time. ...
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Robert Hughes commented about Frank Auerbach's paintings, 'Heavy paint looks worthy; it suggests mucky integrity.' [1] Indeed, Auerbach seems to embody a traditional notion of authenticity, working only from the model or landscape and labouring for hundreds of hours on a painting. What happens when the source for the heavily painted surface is...
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Scott McCracken’s work is concerned with the act of painting, in the dichotomy between the figurative and the abstract. His paintings create spaces, not lived but virtual ones; a space that may exist somewhere sometime. It is the relationships within the picture plane that are of significance to McCracken, creating tensions between colour,...
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"The main themes in my work are related to drawing links between people, analysis and exploring stories in all forms, though in recent times particularly in mythology and legends." Hole in my Pocket - www.holeinmypocket.com Allistair Burt is one half of "Hole in my Pocket" a dynamic art/ architecture duo whose...
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The significance of negative space in painting has driven my studio research since graduating. Initially interested in the materiality of paint and the practice in transforming the medium into the subject of the artwork, my practice has progressed towards marking the structure of negative space.My paintings are formed as a result of constant...
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I am currently undertaking an MFA in Contemporary Art Practice at Edinburgh College of Art (Scotland), but originally from Copenhagen, Denmark.Heavily influenced by the German artist Martin Kippenberger, I openly embrace a contradictory stance in my practice. This is the most truthful approach as I do not have a firm belief in what art 'should...
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Statement  I paint using  oil or egg tempera. I am interested in the way an image evolves from a combination of thoughts, ideas, memory, research, flights of fancy and the actual dynamics of the picture- making process. Much of my imagery is figurative and of seemingly ordinary yet surprising aspects of my everyday life...
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Jenny Smith works in the medium of drawing, painting, print, artists' books and video. Her work investigates the relationship between process and concept within the context of memory and place with particular reference to Zen philosophy and the Japanese concept of wabi sabi. Jenny’s current work investigates the points new digital technology...
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Through my practice, I am trying to resolve whether it is possible to make our own decisions within a cultural framework which determines those decisions for us.Painting offers a readymade model for this. Painting's well-rehearsed history, language and economic object-value inescapably influences both the viewing of - and the production of -...
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ConceptsI respond creatively to my immediate environment / experience InfluencesNature; History; Culture; Experience. Career Path1987 BA Hons. (Drawing and Painting) Edinburgh College of ArtI am a practising artist. I have taught on projects with schools, community and youth -groups, and run painting, drawing and...
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Katie Orton is an artist interested in the concept of the microcosm. What can a seemingly insignificant product or action tell us about societal forces and methods of control? What is it that makes us who we are? That is the question at the heart of Orton's work. She seems to have a fascination with the props of identity; a ring on a finger,...
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'Through his body of work Russell Leng employs the materiality of paint to create isolated extractions of an imagined landscape. These glimpses into future environments aim to confront the viewer's perception, as well as their understanding of landscape from within the painting tradition. Leng questions how the unceasing amalgamation...
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Concepts To create a living landscape, not in representational terms, but as a voyage of the mind and exploration of material. Also to glean from nature and discarded man-made debris, like any beachcomber. To navigate through human emotion.  My subject is the figure in the landscape, but the human presence is hinted at, rather than...
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In many ways my approach and attitude to making work has changed dramatically in the decade since I left art school. Spending the first few years working full time as an artist, I gained valuable experience of what a difficult path it can be, even though I was what can be considered very successful, having a few solo shows in public venues and...
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A tick can stay dormant for eighteen years when isolated from the conditions that trigger its behaviour. My work attempts to appropriate something of this inscrutable poise, in a set of figurations as pauses in habits around the use of languages and objects, which simultaneously seek to refer to their own consumption, where pausing could reveal...
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I am a visual artist with a wide range of studio practice and commissioned work. This derives from a traditional Fine Art education enhanced by later post graduate Cultural Studies. Significant also in my development has been collaborations with architects, engineers, landscape architects, musicians, writers and other artists often on multi...
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Cartograph 1, 2006 Cartograph 2, 2006 'In...
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Although formerly a painter and sculptor I have found the process of printmaking conducive to developing my ideas. I have extended my work using silkscreen, or carborundum and etching combinations, some work contains a combination of both monoprint and silkscreen. At present I am allowing much of my work to be led by processes; processes as...
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Together with painting on canvas there remains a large variety of shifting, stylistic strategies that can underwrite and scaffold any critical engagement with conceptual ideas. For instance, practically it is possible to produce painting that finds its starting point with everyday objects and material that are modified through paint....
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I'm interested in the curious aspects of human behaviour, about how we interact within society. The figures or objects I choose for my subjects are stripped bare from any details. By painting or cutting out their shapes I turn them into neutral symbols, a representation of a type, a logo that is there for the viewer to project their own views...
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In the beginning my work focused on the therapeutic act of making, and the work still does contain elements of this. I am interested in the role of obsession, ritual and accumulation. Sewn sculptures become the metaphor or votive for the performance of trauma. Childhood trauma, memories/recollections good and bad are explored through these made up...
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The Lonely Piper was genesised in 1999 as the sole protagonist in the film 'I Can't Play The Bagpipes', a romantic yet humorous deconstruction of Scottish stereotype. His body of work to date has a Caledonian twist yet stems from the universal concerns of natural history, life, death, the paranormal and a love of folklore. Modestly referring to...
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My earlier (and some current work), consists many years of sculptural and painted projects, while my fascination for mosaic work began ten years ago. I had used tessellated techniques on large environmental sculptures in the past, using fibreglass resin and a wide variety of materials, since then mosaic making, 2-dimensional and structural, has...
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Grant graduated from the Painting and Printmaking program at the Glasgow School of Art with an award of Distinction in 2007, winning the Glasgow West of Scotland Scholarship awarded to one student for the duration of the course, and also completed a year of study at the Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts in Geneva, Switzerland. Also...
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Flowers mean different things to different people .... to me they are the secret of the cosmos Winifred Nicholson I paint flower 'portraits' much as a portrait artist will paint heads and figures, and through them feel I express something fundamental about life and living. Translated into paintings the flowers become uber-flowers near...
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Conceptual and formal references to post-war American art and culture, art history and critical theory inform the work of Neil Clements, but ultimately it is the viewer’s relation to the work that completes it – the subjective encounter in a particular context.In 'Moat' (2009), a rectangular sheet of aluminium, overlaid by...
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Lucy Skaer makes drawings, prints, sculptures and films that are often combined in installations. Her work forces the viewer to grapple with the experience of seeing an image or object that does not immediately reveal its form. Skaer acknowledges that the act of looking can be demanding, as she describes in her encounter with Holbein’s...
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David Faithfull lectures at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and lives and works in Edinburgh, Scotland.Much of his work is based on the natural environment and human relationships with it historically and culturally. Recent projects have explored tides and coastlines, through text and image, and experimental Palindromic and Panoramic...
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Teaching Experience Regular visiting artist, Glasgow School of Art Painting department and MFA. CollectionsAberdeen Art Gallery; The Essl Collection, Vienna; The Fleming Collection, London; Glasgow Marshall Trust; Perth Art Gallery and Museum, The Royal Bank of Scotland, UBS Bank.
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