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Celebrating the Colour Red
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It is red's affinity with fire and warmth that makes it a shade we seek out in winter - a salve to abate the seasonal blues might you say! So to warm our cockles and cheer us all up this winter, we've selected a variety of artworks that celebrate red in all its splendour.
Lauren Bryden | Artist Interview
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This autumn, we caught up with Glasgow-based artist Lauren Bryden. Read the full interview, in which Bryden talks of the importance of matrescence and how (m)otherhood has shaped her and her art making, by clicking on the link below.
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- Tags: colour, figurative, glasgow, Lauren Bryden, monotypes, motherhood, printmaking
Sarah J. Stanley | Pattern Seeking Creatures
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We have a whole new collection of paintings by Sarah J. Stanley, a Glasgow-based artist whose work explores themes of religious dogma and subservience. Blocks, bricks, grids, ladders, and stairs are commonplace in Stanley's painterly lexicon. They form boundaries, pathways and even cages, evoking ideas of confinement and coercion- a feeling known only too well by Stanley. She grew up in a family of Christian fundamentalists. Extreme and cult-like, with no time for anything but Church and bible studies, her childhood was void of play and deviance.
Elham Hemmat | Artist Interview
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In the spotlight this month, we have Iranian artist Elham Hemmat who shares with us her love of ceramics, her many lines of influence and her belief that art is not just a means to challenge ideas but hopefully affect change.
Patricia Paolozzi Cain | A Gateway to the Internal Mind
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We are delighted to present new work by multi-award-winning artist Patricia Paolozzi Cain. Based in rural Dumfries and Galloway, Patricia Paolozzi Cain's often large-scale works of art form an active and shaping force that exists between the artist and her physical environment. Tangled tree branches, dense hedgerows, a fusion of fallen leaves, sedges and thickets are the preamble to Paolozzi Cain's abstracted compositions. Getting lost in nature's cosmos is for Paolozzi Cain a means to look inward, to introspect. In her own words, she says, "I focus on nature as a gateway to the internal mind." Using a process of intense scrutiny, where she transposes and edits what she sees before her, Paolozzi Cain turns observations into a rich, meditative language that is as much rooted in place as it is in consciousness.
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