NEIGHBOURHOOD Watch

 Details from the painted works to be featured in NEIGHBOURHOOD. Basement level of Urban Outfitters, Edinburgh.

I am excited at the prospect of this show. For the first time I will be showing works two distinct approaches which I do not see as being mutually exclusive. The figurative works are almost collaborative in how they demand cooperation and interaction - before making the work- and require intense observation and concentration during. The new symbolic, graphic pieces tend to come from a process of introspection and trying to access a particular atmosphere.   I can see this as a starting point from which more new bodies of work will emerge.

Sneak - New Works on Paper

A little of what is to come in NEIGHBOURHOOD exhibition.

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Solo Show: NEIGHBOURHOOD

Solo Exhibition NEIGHBOURHOOD opens Thursday October 4th at Urban Outfitters Edinburgh, 124 Princes Street. Private view 6pm - 8pm.

   

This exhibition will feature new figure paintings and recent drawings including those from the Homecomer's Series seen at Art's Complex Summer Show.  These two distinct approaches represent the different ways in which I explore my immediate physical and social environments; Interpreting the architecture around me I work from memory and imagination to produce short-hand landscapes while also valuing the rigorous observation required to make painted portraits of artists, friends and colleagues. This is my neighbourhood. 

Traverse Bar Cafe

A wee job I did for the Traverse Theatre  this week. Please go check out the Bar Cafe's new look: http://www.traverse.co.uk/bar-caf%C3%A9/

Other Folks

 Some artists I've been taking an interest in recently include Nana Shiomi whose japanese woodblock prints seem to play on ideas of perspective, space and the symbolic significance of  repeated motifs. Illistrator/artists Steven Harrington and Scott Barry's use of pattern and symbols create personal visual languages. Barry also has very fluid approach or multiple 'styles' that he works in.  I prefer Shiomi's work for it's subtlety but there's just something about symmetry and triangles....  

 Nana Shiomi

Steven Harrington

Scott Barry

Homecomer's Series

installation view

untitled

 top from left: placed I, Havn I, three sisters. 

middle: call them in, placed II, Placed III. 

bottom: havn II 

 from left: look east, dawn

 look west

 once a popular tourist destination, untitled

Current Exhibitions

A series of recent drawings and a painted work are featured in Art's Complex Summer Show.  Open from the  3rd to the 19th August, London Road. Gallery 2 will still be exhibiting until the 31st. Details and coverage below


http://www.artscomplex.org/events/exhibition-arts-complex-summer-exhibition


http://www.scotlandsartists.com/pages/exhibitions_detail.php?recordID=73


http://www.aestheticamagazine.com/blog/first-summer-show-at-arts-complex-edinburgh/


50 by 50 touring group exhibition is now installed at Central Library, George IV bridge, Edinburgh. Work can be viewed from Victoria Street.