Susan Laughton

SUSAN LAUGHTON

BALANCING ACT 6 - 31 JULY 2019

Cover: Resonance V MIxed Media on Board, 40x40cm Inside Cover: Lumiere (detail) Mixed Media on Board, 60x50cm Additional works will be available during the exhibition.

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SUSAN LAUGHTON

BALANCING ACT 6 - 31 JULY 2019

Join us for the opening on Saturday 6th July from 2-4pm

&Gallery 17 Dundas Street Edinburgh EH3 6QG andgallery.co.uk info@andgallery.co.uk 07711 285 545

SUSAN LAUGHTON Susan’s paintings explore observed and imagined architectural and topographical forms. They evolve from halfremembered glimpses seen from the corner of the eye, fleeting juxtapositions elusive to photography, the dislocated reverie of long car journeys, or from more studied compositions.

The landscape is Susan’s starting point, not as a picturesque or static view, but as a space travelled through and experienced. It is a source of man made and natural forms, texture and colour from which reductive personal responses develop. Vernacular buildings, both rural and industrial inspire imagined architectural forms that play with ambiguous perspective, while distant horizons and the flickering lines of passing structures contrast expanses of sky.

Structured and methodical approaches combined with spontaneous and intuitive reactions combine control with ‘let‘s see what happens if…’

Skywindow I Mixed Media on Board, 50x90cm

Skywindow II & Hinterland II Mixed Media on Board, 70x50cm

Celeste Mixed Media on Board, 100x100cm

Crystalline II Mixed Media on Board, 100x100cm

Balancing Act V, VI & VII Mixed Media on Board, 40x40cm

Safe Keeping VI & V Mixed Media on Board, 50x50cm

Travelling Light III Mixed Media on Board, 70x60cm

Disguise I & II Mixed Media on Board, 40x40cm

Enclosure VII & VI Mixed Media on Board, 40x40cm

Nightflight III Mixed Media on Board, 70x60cm

SUSAN LAUGHTON E D U C AT I O N

2002 BA (Hons) Visual Art and Design (First) University of Bolton 1987 HND Building Technology Bolton Institute

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2019 2018 2016 2015 2011 2010 2009 2008

Crossing Boundaries, &Gallery, Edinburgh Staithes Studios, North Yorkshire Conscious Perception The Stratford Gallery Susan Laughton The Cold Press, Holt, Norfolk Travelling Light Quercus Gallery, Bath Still Here greenroom, Manchester curated by Blank Media collective Measured Space Duckett and Jeffreys Gallery, Malton, North Yorkshire Sightlines Salford Museum & Art Gallery including curation of works from Salford’s permanent collection Haworth Museum & Gallery Accrington

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2019 Fresh: Contemporary Art Fair, Cheltenham 2018 Organic Form Gallery 57, Arundel Unrestricted, &Gallery, Edinburgh Winter exhibition The Stratford Gallery Initial Sighting &Gallery, Edinburgh A contour, a curve - the lie of the land Gallery 57, Arundel JOURNEY The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon Fresh: Contemporary Art Fair, Cheltenham The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Art Agency Winter The Stratford Gallery 2017 Mixing Signals Kobi & Teal, Frome, Somerset Gaze, Glimpse: Looking at landscape Gallery 57, Arundel Ikigai: A reason for living The Old Lock Up Gallery, Derbyshire A Time for Reflection The Stratford Gallery, Stratford upon Avon Presence Artwave West, Morecombelake, Dorset 2016 Opening Exhibition The Stratford Gallery, Stratfordupon-Avon Buy Art Fair Manchester, with Staithes Studios Open Exhibition The Old Station Gallery, Rowsley, Derbyshire Responses in Colour Artwave West, Morecombelake, Dorset

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Lichfield Art Prize: Finalist Lichfield Cathedral, Emporium Gallery A Certain Language Staithes Studios gallery, North Yorkshire Drawn 2015 The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol The Still Point Quercus Gallery, Bath Bristol Affordable Art Fair with Columbia Road Gallery Quercus Gallery Summer Show Hampstead Affordable Art Fair Battersea Affordable Art Fair New York City Affordable Art Fair neo:artprize exhibition neo:gallery 22, Bolton Hampstead Affordable Art Fair Palace Art Fair Fulham, London Bristol Affordable Art Fair Artlink Stockport Art Gallery, Cheshire Artificial Light Cupola Gallery, Sheffield A Different View The Barefoot Gallery, Boston Spa No.1: Paint BLANKSPACE Gallery, Manchester Barnaby Festival Macclesfield Stockport Contemporary Open Stockport Art Gallery, Cheshire Palace Art Fair Fulham, London Art of Ideas II Arts & Business/Arts Council exhibition selected by Stephen Snoddy, Director Walsall Gallery Findings Valley Artists at Towneley Museum & Gallery, Burnley Survey Gallerytop, Rowsley, Derbyshire Buy Art Fair Urbis, Manchester, with Arts&Business Brighton Art Fair Tony Scrivener & Susan Laughton Firbob & Peacock Contemporary Art, Knutsford, Cheshire see more Brighton Art Fair Open Exhibition Grosvenor Museum, Chester Calder Gallery Hebden Bridge, Yorkshire Haworth Open Haworth Gallery, Accrington, Lancashire Landmarks III Lowood Gallery, Armathwaite, Cumbria Sculptural Possibilities Cupola Gallery, Sheffield

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