Jill Watson Landscapes and Still Life 4 – 28 July 2012 / Private View Tuesday 3rd July 6.30 – 8.30pm Online catalogue: www.scottish-gallery.co.uk/jillwatson The Scottish Gallery is delighted to host this fourth solo exhibition of bronze sculpture by Jill Watson. The exhibition is a small retrospective brought up-to-date with some new themes, to remind us of her sensitively observed works. Landscapes “In this series of small bronzes, all inspired by Jill Watson’s first sight, more than 20 years ago, of the ruinous remains of ancient Rome and the theme is one of space between, of distances. In each work, we have shapes with the quality of what could be called visible time, that is the traces in constructions each year leaves as it passes, that act as markers of our place in a continuum from ‘before’, to ‘now’ and ‘after’…” from Dr D Bell, August 2006.
Public commissions: Merchant Navy Memorial, Leith The Queen’s Gallery, Holyrood The Hub, Edinburgh’s Festival Centre Hampton Court, Golden Pear Tree St Michael’s Church, Bath Scottish Opera
Still Life The figure sculptures come from watching people in the street. The movement of the figure is sometimes contrasted against the straight line of the column, or they are left for the onlooker to imagine where they are.
Front: detail of Inscribed Landscape 2005 38 x 34 x 4cms bronze
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