Gillian A McFarland

Gillian A McFarland Nowhere to Somewhere 1st July - 2nd August 2017

Gillian A McFarland Nowhere to Somewhere 1st July - 2nd August 2017

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Nowhere to Somewhere Creation itself holds it’s own abstraction through purposeful will or from making sense of random events colliding. Working with scientists and researchers in scientific fields, McFarland’s work has gained a different perspective in understanding of how things are defined by the very processes that bring them into existence. Her practice begins with the processes of creating and develops in exploration of what unfolds.

Her work considers not only the excitement of the chaotic act of creation, but also the resulting stillness of the aftermath. The more time we give to the art of looking, the more clarity we can apply to the questions that open out in front of us. History and time move us back and forth in our understanding. We can only be where we are within the context of everything that has proceeded this moment.

Making art allows one to be still with things in a reflective process, allowing connections to develop, disappear, reappear and strengthen. The repetition of process reassures and defines the investigation, with small actions building into a bigger picture. The’ doing’ becomes charged with potential, causing a sequence of disturbances or impacts, a pencil dent, the crumpling of surfaces, pressed ink blots or blown glass. The archaeology of the mark or object, its material culture invites investigation and the desire to draw closer, to connect in understanding. Enquiry and process impacts in the art making and hopefully integrates the viewer and maker with the image.

GILLIAN ADAIR MCFARLAND

2017

OCP , Bath Leicester Open 28, Leicester

Cank St Open, Leicester

Art Therapy, Edinburgh 2016 New Art, Byre Gallery, Millpoint, Cornwall

Fine Art Painting, Saint Martins School of Art, London

Converge, Society Of Scottish Artists, Edinburgh Royal Scottish Academy , Edinburgh Experience Cuppola Gallery, Sheffield 2017 Honorary Research Fellow, School of Genetics, 2015 Paper. Salisbury Art Centre

Leicester University Cuppola Gallery, Sheffield 2015/17 Artist in Residence De Montfort University, Leicester

Open 26, Leicester 2010/14 Arts Educator, Holburne Museum and Art Gallery Rosalux, Minneapolos, USA 1999/09 Art Therapist , Tayside NHS Trust, Perth 2014 Society of Scottish Artists Annual exhibition RSA 1996/98 Artist in Residence, Tayside NHS Edinburgh 1990/96 Freelance Arts Educator Cank Street Gallery Open, Leicester 1986/90 Curator Contemporary Touring Art Gallery, Fife Bath Artist Studios , Forest of Imagination Building

Education Authority Volumes Recollection, Holburne Museum and Art Gallery, Bath Awards 2013 Touch Art Fair, Frieze, London 2017 Bath Arts Festival Exhibition Award 44AD

Tamed Marks , Bath Artist Studios 2016/17 Arts Council Funded Research Project , Drawing DNA Derwent Art Prize, Mall Galleries, London 2016/17 Arts Council Funded Research Project, Curiosity and RSA, Edinburgh

Creativity RWA, Drawn ,Bristol 2016 Financial award from Royal Astronomical Society Fabric of the Land, Aberdeen and Edinburgh 2015 Arts Council Funded Research Project, Experiment Salisbury Open, Salisbury Arts Centre.

Shortlisted for Attenborough Prize FAB , Bath 2013 Salisbury Arts Centre Prize Winner Buchelli Gallery, Bristol 2012 FAB Open,Bath. winner 2012 Cork St Open, London 1998 Council’s Choice SSA Fabric of the Land Aberdeen 1986 Scottish Artists Purchase Award, Royal Scottish Fab Open, Bath.

Academy SSA Annual Show 2000 James Murray Art Show, Perth Museum and Art Gallery Solo Shows Coffin exhibition, Roseangle Gallery, Dundee 2017 &Gallery, Edinburgh

Three Women, Seagate Gallery, Dundee 2016 Selected Artist LSA, Cank St Gallery, Leicester 1987 Edinburgh Scene , Edinburgh City Art Centre 2015 &Collective, Bridge of Allan, Scotland SSA Annual Show, awarded Council’s Choice 2014 ‘Here to There” Buchelli Gallery, Bristol RSA Summer Show, Scottish Artists award 2013 ‘Blood will Boil” Bath Artist’s Studios 2000 Kellie Lodging Gallery, Pittenweem Festival, Residencies 1997 Scottish Artists Gallery, Edinburgh 2017 8 month residency, School of Genetics, Leicester

Education

Selected exhibitions

2017 &Gallery, Edinburgh ‘Little Selves’, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery

‘Senses’ Walford Mill, Dorset ‘Drawn’ Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

Bath Arts Prize, Bath

University 2016 ongoing Artist in Residence, De Montfort University, Leicester 2014 FAB Bath Artists group residency 1997 Artist in Residence, Murray Royal Hospital, Perth 1993 Artist in Schools Residency, Fife 1992 Artist in Residence, Highland Printmakers, Inverness

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