Kilmorack Gallery Secret preview 2015

kilmorackgallery a secret preview 2015

front cover Naming of the Beasts ROBERT POWELL etching - 25cm x 25cm

Kilmorack Gallery presents

2015

exhibitions

22nd March 3rd May 2015 Kirstie Cohen Sally Matthews Robert Powell Beth Robertson Fiddes

8th May 13 June 2015

19 July 1st August 2015

Patricia Cain Sam Cartman Steve Dilworth

Eoghan Bridge Alan Macdonald Allan MacDonald Lotte Glob Ruth Brownlee Madeline MacKay Janette Kerr

PATRICIA CAIN

ALAN MACDONALD

Ingebjorg Smith Christopher Wood rsw

SALLY MATTHEWS

8th August 12th September 2015

18th Sept 24th October 2015

James Newton Adams Allan MacDonald Peter Davis

Paul Bloomer Liz Knox

PETER DAVIS

LIZ KNOX

JAMES NEWTON ADAMS

PAUL BLOOMER

21st march - 2nd may 2015

Kirstie Cohen Robert Powell Beth Robertson Fiddes Ingebjorg Smith Sally Matthews Christopher Wood rsw

private view Friday 20th March 7pm - 9pm

KIRSTIE COHEN

march/april

dark island oil on canvas KIRSTIE COHEN

The hills, lochs, seas and skies are intentionally in a state of unresolved flux; light and dark move around, tides rise and fall and the flatness of a moor can also be the rolling of the sea‌ and the land is alive, her paintings are alive.

INGEBJORG SMITH march/april

Ingebjorg Smith’s collages are infused with playfulness, naivety and a delicate play of textures.

Use of collage as a medium is characterised by an almost experimental play of materials – various layers interplay as a composition is formed and Smith’s work conveys delight in this process.

Georgina Coburn

Daisy Redpoles mixed media INGEBJORG SMITH

ROBERT POWELL Robert Powell graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2008.

His work takes a historical fact or fiction as its starting point, and moves on a journey which ultimately leads to a comment on the present.

The Web of Men mixed media ROBERT POWELL

BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES

Waterfall at Dundonnell mixed media, 122cm x 153cm BETH ROBERTSON FIDDES

SALLY MATTHEWS

Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

22st March march/april 3rd May Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel

After I saw my first Sally Matthews sculpture, a ghost was left. I was haunted by the life she put into the steel and straw. Like a drawing they have fluidity, line and fun.

You can see Matthews’ devotion to her subjects and her material; and the resulting sculpture has a rare brilliance. tony davidson

CHRISTOPHER WOOD RSW march/april

'The word which most readily comes to mind as I move through Wood's paintings is 'visceral'. There is something deeply intuitive about these works; alternately insistent, lyrical, emphatic and searingly emotive. This is painting from the heart, in its purest form.'

Iain Gale, Sept 2006

Seawall mixed media, 122cm x 91cm CHRISTOPHER WOOD rsw

9th may - 13th June 2015

PATRICIA CAIN SAM CARTMAN STEVE DILWORTH

private view Friday 9th May 7pm - 9pm

STEVE DILWORTH may/june

Steve Dilworth’s work unsurprisingly has an international following. His sculpture creates myths and reveals truths that can only be felt when looking at them or touching then. Human life is fleeting, and even stone degrades but there is beauty everywhere.

Dilworth is also a skilled craftsman. For Dilworth the act of making can produce magic.

Beaked Bird plaster before casting into bronze STEVE DILWORTH

PATRICIA CAIN

Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

PATRICIA CAIN won both the Threadneedle prize and the Aspect prize in 2010 and had a solo exhibition in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Gallery in 2011 with architecturally inspired paintings and drawings of Glasgow’s shipyards.

Work this March’s exhibition is the result of a three month residency in Wilhelmina Barns-Grahams’ studio Living as aSt Process outside Andrewsii and her move to 11cm x 150cm a new rural home.

PATRICIA CAIN

may/june

SAM CARTMAN

Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

'I first saw Sam Cartman’s work at the Nairn Art Competition in 2009.

The quality was obvious.

There’s a gutsy use of paint and magnificent feeling of space. Sam’s total dedication to his art also struck me.

Tony Davidson, Gallery Director, January 2013

The Dalveen oil on board, 29cm x 39cm SAM CARTMAN

may/june

20th June - 1st August 2015

EOGHAN BRIDGE RUTH BROWNLEE JANETTE KERR LOTTE GLOB ALAN MACDONALD MADELINE MACKAY

private view Friday19th March 7pm - 9pm

ALAN MACDONALD

While there are many historical art influences to be seen in this work, MacDonald remains his own man, in full knowledge of the canon, playfully seducing the viewer with familiarity of style then subverting expectation of traditional narrative. Displacement of elements; the surreal juxtaposition of classical and industrial architecture, the adornment and status of costume with utilitarian functionality and the presence of consumer branding/ Pop elements in the same frame as traditions of historical painting and portraiture thankfully never allow the audience to get too comfortable.

Georgina Coburn, 2011

june/july Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel

The Garden of Knowldege oil on board - 60cm x 50cm ALAN MACDONALD

JANETTE KERR june/july Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel

untitled JANETTE KERR

EOGHAN BRIDGE untitled EOGHAN BRIDGE

june/july Figure Head 2 Jim Bond steel

Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

LOTTE GLOB june/july

To Lotte [Glob] the landscape is a living thing full of magic and reinvention. It is a place where a boulder may get up and walk off on stout sturdy legs. It is also a place of song and star-gazers.

Glob takes inspiration and materials from here, and often offers them back as gifts to the Gods of nature. The inspiration of her father is there too: the ancient peaty Tullund Man and the Figure Head 2 CoBrA artists.

Jim Bond steel

Walking on Faroese Cliffs etching LOTTE GLOB

MADELINE MACKAY june/july

There is something that pulls one towarsd Madeline Mackay's work. It's not just the marks created by etchings and prints, which I love for their timeless Figurequality.

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which I think comes from her Caithness upbringing. Animals and archaeology are everywhere there. There is ithe great skill and determination of the artist too

untitled collagraph, 86cm x 95cm MADELINE MACKAY

RUTH BROWNLEE june/july

Ruth Brownlee was born in Lothian and studied at Edinburgh College of Art. For the twenty years she has worked from the Shetland Isles. Not surprisingly Brownlee’s paintings are always being reinspired by the constantly changing weather, the sea and Figure theHead land.2 Jim Bond steel

untitled RUTH BROWNLEE

9th August - 12th September 2014

JAMES NEWTON ADAMS PETER DAVIS ALLAN MACDONALD

private view Friday 8th August 7pm - 9pm

JAMES NEWTON Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

N ADAMS AUGUST 2015

'[James Newton Adam's] simplified forms and aerial perspective give a dream-like quality to the work, evocative of childhood memory. There is playfulness and melancholy in equal measure in Adams’s work, child-like simplicity combined with adult consciousness in his fluid and adept handling of materials.'

Georgina Coburn, 2009

The Highladn Wedding acrylic on board JAMES NEWTON ADAMS

ALLAN MACDON Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

NALD AUGUST 2015

Allan MacDonald’s paintings of the Scottish landscape have become increasingly sought after in recent years. He has a rare skill for capturing the magic of the places he visits: the far North West, Skye, and the areas around his home and studio close to Kilmorack Gallery. MacDonald, who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art, works in the Northern Romantic tradition and is influenced by Tom Thomson, of the Canadian ‘Group of Seven’.

untitled oil on board ALLAN MACDONALD

PETER DAVIS AUGUST Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel 2015

Sometimes very little is needed to capture everything. In Peter Davis’s hands watercolour takes on a new power to capture the beautiful and sublime northern landscapes.

Smalla Waters at Dusk watercolour, 50cm x 70cm PETER DAVIS

19th September - 31st October 2015

PAUL BLOOMER LIZ KNOX

private view Friday 18th September 7pm - 9pm untitled oil on board ALLAN MACDONALD

PAUL BLOOMER SEPT/OCT

Figure Head 2 - Jim Bond - steel

Paul Bloomer’s wood-cuts and charcoal drawings have unforgettable compositions and poet narratives. Some are very large scale indeed and have a power as strong as any oil painting.

Bloomer now lives works in Shetland.

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SEPTEMBER 2015

LIZ KNOX Liz Knox is one of those rare artists who has immaculate technique. Colour, composition, texture and light are all used with a deftness that brings power to all the subjects she touches.

SEPT/OCT

Kilmorack Gallery is one of Scotland's foremost commercial fine art galleries and specialises in work by some of the country's most interesting and collectable artists.

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HELEN DENERLEY eagle and bench oustide the gallery

kilmorack through the trees

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