kilmorackgallery a secret preview 2015
front cover Naming of the Beasts ROBERT POWELL etching - 25cm x 25cm
Kilmorack Gallery presents
2015
exhibitions
22nd March 3rd May 2015 Kirstie Cohen Sally Matthews Robert Powell Beth Robertson Fiddes
8th May 13 June 2015
19 July 1st August 2015
Patricia Cain Sam Cartman Steve Dilworth
Eoghan Bridge Alan Macdonald Allan MacDonald Lotte Glob Ruth Brownlee Madeline MacKay Janette Kerr
PATRICIA CAIN
ALAN MACDONALD
Ingebjorg Smith Christopher Wood rsw
SALLY MATTHEWS
8th August 12th September 2015
18th Sept 24th October 2015
James Newton Adams Allan MacDonald Peter Davis
Paul Bloomer Liz Knox
PETER DAVIS
LIZ KNOX
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
PAUL BLOOMER
21st march - 2nd may 2015
Kirstie Cohen Robert Powell Beth Robertson Fiddes Ingebjorg Smith Sally Matthews Christopher Wood rsw
private view Friday 20th March 7pm - 9pm
KIRSTIE COHEN
march/april
dark island oil on canvas KIRSTIE COHEN
The hills, lochs, seas and skies are intentionally in a state of unresolved flux; light and dark move around, tides rise and fall and the flatness of a moor can also be the rolling of the sea‌ and the land is alive, her paintings are alive.
INGEBJORG SMITH march/april
Ingebjorg Smith’s collages are infused with playfulness, naivety and a delicate play of textures. Use of collage as a medium is characterised by an almost experimental play of materials – various layers interplay as a composition is formed and Smith’s work conveys delight in this process. Georgina Coburn
Daisy Redpoles mixed media INGEBJORG SMITH
ROBERT POWELL Robert Powell graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008. His work takes a historical fact or fiction as its starting point, and moves on a journey which ultimately leads to a comment on the present.
The Web of Men mixed media ROBERT POWELL
BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
Waterfall at Dundonnell mixed media, 122cm x 153cm BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES
SALLY MATTHEWS
Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
22st March march/april 3rd May Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel
After I saw my first Sally Matthews sculpture, a ghost was left. I was haunted by the life she put into the steel and straw. Like a drawing they have fluidity, line and fun. You can see Matthews’ devotion to her subjects and her material; and the resulting sculpture has a rare brilliance. tony davidson
CHRISTOPHER WOOD RSW march/april
'The word which most readily comes to mind as I move through Wood's paintings is 'visceral'. There is something deeply intuitive about these works; alternately insistent, lyrical, emphatic and searingly emotive. This is painting from the heart, in its purest form.' Iain Gale, Sept 2006
Seawall mixed media, 122cm x 91cm CHRISTOPHER WOOD rsw
9th may - 13th June 2015
PATRICIA CAIN SAM CARTMAN STEVE DILWORTH
private view Friday 9th May 7pm - 9pm
STEVE DILWORTH may/june
Steve Dilworth’s work unsurprisingly has an international following. His sculpture creates myths and reveals truths that can only be felt when looking at them or touching then. Human life is fleeting, and even stone degrades but there is beauty everywhere. Dilworth is also a skilled craftsman. For Dilworth the act of making can produce magic.
Beaked Bird plaster before casting into bronze STEVE DILWORTH
PATRICIA CAIN
Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
PATRICIA CAIN won both the Threadneedle prize and the Aspect prize in 2010 and had a solo exhibition in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Gallery in 2011 with architecturally inspired paintings and drawings of Glasgow’s shipyards. Work this March’s exhibition is the result of a three month residency in Wilhelmina Barns-Grahams’ studio Living as aSt Process outside Andrewsii and her move to 11cm x 150cm a new rural home. PATRICIA CAIN
may/june
SAM CARTMAN
Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
'I first saw Sam Cartman’s work at the Nairn Art Competition in 2009. The quality was obvious. There’s a gutsy use of paint and magnificent feeling of space. Sam’s total dedication to his art also struck me. Tony Davidson, Gallery Director, January 2013
The Dalveen oil on board, 29cm x 39cm SAM CARTMAN
may/june
20th June - 1st August 2015
EOGHAN BRIDGE RUTH BROWNLEE JANETTE KERR LOTTE GLOB ALAN MACDONALD MADELINE MACKAY
private view Friday19th March 7pm - 9pm
ALAN MACDONALD
While there are many historical art influences to be seen in this work, MacDonald remains his own man, in full knowledge of the canon, playfully seducing the viewer with familiarity of style then subverting expectation of traditional narrative. Displacement of elements; the surreal juxtaposition of classical and industrial architecture, the adornment and status of costume with utilitarian functionality and the presence of consumer branding/ Pop elements in the same frame as traditions of historical painting and portraiture thankfully never allow the audience to get too comfortable. Georgina Coburn, 2011
june/july Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel
The Garden of Knowldege oil on board - 60cm x 50cm ALAN MACDONALD
JANETTE KERR june/july Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel
untitled JANETTE KERR
EOGHAN BRIDGE untitled EOGHAN BRIDGE
june/july Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel
Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
LOTTE GLOB june/july
To Lotte [Glob] the landscape is a living thing full of magic and reinvention. It is a place where a boulder may get up and walk off on stout sturdy legs. It is also a place of song and star-gazers. Glob takes inspiration and materials from here, and often offers them back as gifts to the Gods of nature. The inspiration of her father is there too: the ancient peaty Tullund Man and the Figure Head 2 CoBrA artists. Jim Bond steel
Walking on Faroese Cliffs etching LOTTE GLOB
MADELINE MACKAY june/july
There is something that pulls one towarsd Madeline Mackay's work. It's not just the marks created by etchings and prints, which I love for their timeless Figurequality. Head 2 There is something else too, another Jim Bond form of maturity in her work, steel
which I think comes from her Caithness upbringing. Animals and archaeology are everywhere there. There is ithe great skill and determination of the artist too
untitled collagraph, 86cm x 95cm MADELINE MACKAY
RUTH BROWNLEE june/july
Ruth Brownlee was born in Lothian and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. For the twenty years she has worked from the Shetland Isles. Not surprisingly Brownlee’s paintings are always being reinspired by the constantly changing weather, the sea and Figure theHead land.2 Jim Bond steel
untitled RUTH BROWNLEE
9th August - 12th September 2014
JAMES NEWTON ADAMS PETER DAVIS ALLAN MACDONALD
private view Friday 8th August 7pm - 9pm
JAMES NEWTON Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
N ADAMS AUGUST 2015
'[James Newton Adam's] simplified forms and aerial perspective give a dream-like quality to the work, evocative of childhood memory. There is playfulness and melancholy in equal measure in Adams’s work, child-like simplicity combined with adult consciousness in his fluid and adept handling of materials.' Georgina Coburn, 2009
The Highladn Wedding acrylic on board JAMES NEWTON ADAMS
ALLAN MACDON Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
NALD AUGUST 2015
Allan MacDonald’s paintings of the Scottish landscape have become increasingly sought after in recent years. He has a rare skill for capturing the magic of the places he visits: the far North West, Skye, and the areas around his home and studio close to Kilmorack Gallery. MacDonald, who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, works in the Northern Romantic tradition and is influenced by Tom Thomson, of the Canadian ‘Group of Seven’.
untitled oil on board ALLAN MACDONALD
PETER DAVIS AUGUST Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel 2015
Sometimes very little is needed to capture everything. In Peter Davis’s hands watercolour takes on a new power to capture the beautiful and sublime northern landscapes.
Smalla Waters at Dusk watercolour, 50cm x 70cm PETER DAVIS
19th September - 31st October 2015
PAUL BLOOMER LIZ KNOX
private view Friday 18th September 7pm - 9pm untitled oil on board ALLAN MACDONALD
PAUL BLOOMER SEPT/OCT
Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel
Paul Bloomer’s wood-cuts and charcoal drawings have unforgettable compositions and poet narratives. Some are very large scale indeed and have a power as strong as any oil painting. Bloomer now lives works in Shetland.
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SEPTEMBER 2015
LIZ KNOX Liz Knox is one of those rare artists who has immaculate technique. Colour, composition, texture and light are all used with a deftness that brings power to all the subjects she touches.
SEPT/OCT
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