Contemporary Visual & Applied Art
Contemporary Visual & Applied Art Visit &Gallery at Stand B11 during the Edinburgh Art Fair 17th - 19th November 2017 Edinburgh Corn Exchange, New Market Road, EH14 1RJ
&Gallery host a new featured visual artist every 4 weeks, specialising in a diverse range of fine art, drawing, painting and printmaking. The featured visual artist’s work is exhibited within the gallery along with a constantly changing selection of ceramics, sculpture, glass and jewellery from some of the most exciting artists and makers from Scotland and the rest of the UK. &Gallery is a contemporary art gallery located on Dundas Street, Edinburgh. &Gallery is the new venture from owner Avril Nicol who, since 2013 as a founding partner in &Collective (formerly based in Bridge of Allan), has built her reputation for curating modern and forward thinking exhibitions of contemporary visual and applied art.
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JANE CAIRNS Jane Cairns works in response to her surroundings, the ordinary and everyday of urban life, where she finds an accidental poetry that is often overlooked. The hope is to translate some of what is seen and to allow others to share the quiet beauty found in these humble things. Jane takes an experimental approach to ceramic processes and materials to create objects with surfaces that apparently carry the traces of time or reflect the colours and textures of neglect.
Potlatch Vessels & Architectural Forms
ANDREW MACKENZIE Andrew Mackenzie is a Scottish artist. He graduated with an MFA from Edinburgh College of Art in 1993, and lives and works in the Scottish Borders. His work has been exhibited extensively both nationally and internationally, and is represented in many collections. He is currently president of Visual Arts Scotland. Andrew’s work mines a territory between abstraction and representation, responding directly to the landscape while overtly acknowledging the constructs through which it is seen.
Field Edge, Boardwalk Oil on Panel, 107 x 63cm
ANNA SOMERVILLE Anna Somerville graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2000 and works from her studio in Edinburgh. Somerville is known for her expressive painterly style, and has been awarded the prestigious Elizabeth Blackadder & John Houston Travel Award, 2000, and Anne Redpath Award for painting, 2003. Somerville paints intuitively in mixed media and oil to imagine atmospheric horizons. These expressive paintings deliver expansive compositions of abstracted light and form.
Jaipur Wall Oil on Canvas, 70 x 60cm
TA N YA G O M E Z Working in porcelain, Gomez uses a range of approaches in throwing to create forms that capture the qualities of fluidity and movement and evoke a sense of space. The work evolves from observations of natural phenomena, dramatic landscapes and the shifting qualities of the sea. This inspiration is drawn from experience of coastal living, and travelling round the globe, encountering diverse cultures, and absorbing the abstract qualities of colour and shape. The practice is process led. Through experimenting with energetic making and rigorous selection Gomez has learnt how clay works and found new ways of making. Creating forms using dynamic throwing, cutting and assembling techniques.
Handthrown Porcelain Vessels
JAMES LUMSDEN Edinburgh based artist James Lumsden creates paintings which are 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 – this being repeated layer upon layer until the painting begins to emerge. Arrived at by both chance and deliberation, the final painting reveals varying chromatic strata, which can be seen through the translucence and depth of the work. The aim is to make paintings, which are luminous, seductive, sensual and atmospheric. Lumsden is fascinated in how the raw materials innate to the medium can be turned into something poetic – an object filled with light, feeling, atmosphere and emotion.
Fugue (21/11) 2011 Acrylic on Canvas, 30.5 x 30.5cm
Fugue (32/11) 2011 Acrylic on Canvas, 30.5 x 30.5cm
LIZ DOUGLAS Liz Douglas’ painting is influenced by specific landscapes. The ‘macro and micro’ and ‘visible and invisible’ are elements which fascinate her - which she incorporates into her work. She continually tries to find ways to express elements of the landscape that reveal something else that is elusive and intriguing, difficult to quantify, with a poetic resonance. Drawing is an important part the process – looking at the landscape, engaging with it in all weathers to find something that resonates. She has a long connection with landscape – it is part of herself and something that she always tries to connect with through her working process. Her research work explores ancient themes, contemporary issues, northern European painting traditions, and Eastern traditions in the exploration of her subject matter.
Landscape Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 x 50cm
Mothlight Mixed Media on Canvas, 50 x 50cm
REBECCA APPLEBY Examining the ever-present cohabitation and conflict between industry and nature, the work of artist Rebecca Appleby is a continual exploration of the contemporary urban landscape. Her sculptural ceramics are strongly defined by deft mark making and surface contusions, mimicking both the manufactured process of industry and the seemingly sporadic, yet calculated occurrences found in nature. Her works explore both the ephemeral and established solidity of her surroundings, offering the viewer thought provoking works that echo our everyday.
&Gallery, 17 Dundas Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk