JAMES LUMSDEN LUCENT 1 JUNE - 3 JULY 2019
Cover: Lucent (2/19) 2019 (detail) Acrylic on Canvas, 45 x 40cm
Inside Cover: Lucent (3/19) 2019 (detail)
Acrylic on Canvas, 45 x 40cm
Additional works will be available during the exhibition. Further information on the artist, artworks and prices can be found on our website and via our Artsy profile.
JAMES LUMSDEN LUCENT 1 JUNE - 3 JULY 2019
Join us for the opening on Saturday 1st June from 2-4pm
&Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk 07711 285 545
JAMES LUMSDEN &Gallery presents a series of new paintings by Isle of Lewis and Edinburgh based artist James Lumsden, developing from his recent solo exhibitions in Calgary, Canada and Dallas, USA. James Lumsden’s work is primarily concerned with process – building translucent glazes of paint until an illusion of light and depth are achieved. Using an historical glazing method, yet utilising modern acrylic paint and mediums, the process involves the application of multiple (up to 30 or more) thin glazes of acrylic paint and gloss medium. Each layer is dragged, pulled or manipulated with various implements – the process 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. ‘My primary concern as a painter is the creation of a sense of light, colour, space, depth and feeling. I build multiple thin layers of translucent colour; layer upon layer, glaze upon mark upon glaze – concealing, revealing, action, reaction, until a sense of light and depth is achieved within the process. Each painting is imbued with a sense of light emanating from within the painting. I want to see something brought to life, struggled for, with a sense of having its own history, and reflective of the time spent on its creation. My aim is to create something positive and affirming which is filled with both light and darkness, contrasts, hesitations and contradictions - open paintings which allow the viewer’s imagination to search, wander or react at will. These paintings are concerned with looking at and analysing what is presented, both aesthetically and metaphorically. I hope the viewer will be seduced by the work, inquire into some sense of its making, look beneath the surface and question how it has been achieved.’
Reflex (1/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 100 x 100cm
Shift (Study 3/19), Shift (Study 1/19) & Shift (Study 2/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 24 x 30cm
Shift (2/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 60 x 75cm
Lucent (1/19) 2019 & Echoes (1/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 45 x 40cm
Lucent (1/19) 2019 & Echoes (2/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 45 x 40cm
Contrapuntal (3/18) & Contrapuntal (4/18) 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 50 x 40cm
Shift (1/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 160cm
Contrapuntal (2/18) 2018 Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 120cm
Contrapuntal (2/19) & Contrapuntal (1/19) 2019 Acrylic on Canvas, 40 x 40cm
Reflex (9/18) 2018 Acrylic on Canvas, 120 x 120cm
JAMES LUMSDEN Born Inverness, Scotland 1964. Lives and works in Edinburgh and The Isle of Lewis.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 &Gallery, Edinburgh 2018 Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada 2017 Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London &Gallery, Edinburgh 2016 MS Gallery, Morges, Switzerland 2015 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London 2013 &Collective, Bridge of Allan Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London Edinburgh Art Festival / Scottish Arts Club, Edinburgh 2012 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada Rhue Art, Ullapool 2011 Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London An Talla Solais, Ullapool 2010 Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada 2009 Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2007 Amber Roome Contemporary Art, Edinburgh 2006 Atticsalt, Edinburgh MAC, Birmingham 2005 Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London (with Andrew Mackenzie) An Tuireann Arts Centre, Isle of Skye 2004 Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2003 Oriel Capsule, Cardiff (with Eoghann MacColl) 2002 Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2001 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Ireland 2000 The Loft Gallery, Glasgow Aalborg Trienalle, Aalborg, Denmark 1999 Gracefield Arts Centre, Dumfries Pump House Gallery, London 1997 Collective Gallery, Edinburgh Inverness Museum and Art Gallery 1996 Compass Gallery, Glasgow 1993 Collective Gallery, Edinburgh 1992 Merz Contemporary Art, London
2018 Unrestricted, &Gallery, Edinburgh2018 Not as it seems Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay OPEN 2018, SSA/VAS, RSA, Edinburgh 2017 Connection, &Gallery, Edinburgh More Alchemy, Tatha Gallery, Newport on Tay Inception, &Gallery, Edinburgh 2016 Society of Scottish Artists Annual (Invited Artist), RSA, Edinburgh Manmade, Holly Johnson Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA 2015 RSA Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Society of Scottish Artists Annual, RSA, Edinburgh The seed of it’s opposite, Kelvin College, Glasgow (curated by Jai Llewelyn) Summershow, Paul Kuhn Gallery, Calgary, Canada Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris (Sarah Myerscough Gallery) 2014 Society of Scottish Artists Annual, RSA, Edinburgh Re-Define, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas, USA Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris (Sarah Myerscough Gallery) 2013 Paper Planes, Stow Arts Festival, Stow (curated by Andrew Mackenzie) Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris (Sarah Myerscough Fine Art) Society of Scottish Artists Annual, RSA, Edinburgh 2012 RSA Open, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Toronto International Art Fair, Canada (Paul Kuhn Gallery) Black & White, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London 2011 RSA Annual Exhibition, RSA, Edinburgh Perception, Rhue Art at The Dovecot, Edinburgh 2010 RSA Residencies for Scotland Award, RSA, Edinburgh Abstract Matters, Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
SELECTED AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES (SINCE 2010) 2016 Edinburgh Printmakers Prize, Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition Invited Artist, Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition Elected Professional Member, Society of Scottish Artists 2015 B.A.I.R Residency, Banff Arts Centre, Banff, Canada 2011 The Scottish Arts Club Award, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh Visual Arts Award, Edinburgh 2010 Royal Scottish Academy Residencies for Scotland Award
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SINCE 2010) 2019
Palimpsest, An Lanntair, Stornoway London Art Fair (&Gallery) Society of Scottish Artists Annual, RSA , Edinburgh
Photography by Michael Wolchover
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