Monday, 2 July 2012
Opens this weekend. 7/8 and 14/15 July. 12-5pm.
Sharon Quigley
The body; it’s multitude of functions and its relationship with the material properties of paint, have been the main concerns within my artistic practice. I use it as a framework to explore the subjects of physicality, intimacy and sensation. Working directly onto paper, canvas or oil primed boards, I create intricately patterned surfaces, fusing a myriad of cultural references from Japanese Kimono designs, arabesques, nineteenth century steel engravings, micrographic reproductions and cellular structures, in an attempt to explore and reflect the correlation that exists between them all. In recent work scenes which invoke the natural world also reveal an anatomy of patterns that persist and endure throughout life.
Sharon Quigley Studied Painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee before completing an MA in European Fine Art in Barcelona. She currently lives and works in Edinburgh. Quigley has exhibited both nationally and internationally and is the recipient of several Arts prizes and awards for painting, including The Royal Scottish Academy Latimer Award, The Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts Exhibitionship Prize, The Jeffery Orchar Award for painting, The Hope Scott Trust Award for travel and for a publication and more recently the Edinburgh Printmakers Visiting Artist’s award.
Monday, 4 June 2012
...here is a link to some beautiful beastly music...
PMB082: The Beast (Roger Roger, Chuck Jonkey, Setsubun Bean Unit, The Science Fiction Corporation, The Mind Expanders, Vernon Elliott, Moon Wiring Club, Chaino, Hal Mooney, Frank Hunter, Louis & Bebe Barron, OOIOO).
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
This is an exhibition in the BEDROOM of a basement flat.
An exhibition of plastersenosaurs created by an amazing young artist called Abe Locke with some drawings by Emma Bowen.
Abe Locke
Abe is 13 years old. He has been making plastersenosaurs for 5 years. Most are mammals or reptiles. The aquatic ones have flippers and the aerial ones have 2 feet and a massive wing span.
Abe uses any materials he can get his hands on; leaves, pencil lead, lego pieces, plastic toy skulls, cocktail sticks for eyes and claws, toy skeletons and spindly sticks for backbones. Some of the creatures have pebbles inside them to make them stronger, so they do not get squashed. Abe does not use clay because it dries too quickly. He prefers plasticene because he can remould the shapes easily and he can use bright colours. They are constantly changing and evolving. He often makes little stories for them and enjoys making them because ," it is creative and sometimes hilarious", seeing peoples reactions. It is also cheaper than plastic toys.
They are, "his own version of life on earth...evolution." This is the first time Abe has exhibited his plastersenosaurs .
Emma Bowen
Emma is 34 years old. She has made some small pen and ink studies based on Abe's plastersenosaurs. There are also some larger 'exploded' abstract drawings made using invented brushes from twigs and horsehair. Playful psychedelic shapes, cartoon-like entoptic images and form constants hide and reveal themselves. Visitors will have the opportunity to experience these with light beams, through diffraction grating glasses.
Spec-tastic!
Spec-tastic!
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